It is a performances centric movie

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Shot and near fatally wounded by his corrupt former partner, a police officer reemerges as a mob contract killer; he might be working undercover or he might be trying to getting to revenge, with things becoming clearer as the film progresses. If this sounds like a confusing plot description, it is because the film is arguably too complex for its own good; the action scenes are generally well done and Chuck Norris even turns in a decent performance as he mentors a local kid and gets to utter some witty quips, but these highlights are hard to appreciate as the film pitches Norris so deep undercover that it is hard to say where his agenda lies. What can be made out from the film is nevertheless often entertaining. There are many atmospheric nighttime shots and Joel Derouin's jazzy music score is perfectly moody. There is also a thrilling sequence set in the snowbound backwoods of Canada, where half the film is set, and the final few scenes are pretty powerful, over-the-top as the actions of vengeful Norris might well be. Salim Grant also deserves a special mention as the local boy who Norris befriends. There is a particularly touching scene in which Norris confesses to being scared of bullies when he was a kid too, and Grant manages to be wide-eyed and genuinely taken with Norris throughout without the film ever getting mushy or sentimental in this regard.

I never liked Chuck Norris movies in the (distant) past, I even tried to avoid them, if I remember correctly. But my taste has changed over the years, and this (and other) sort(s) of cheesiness makes me want to try and catch any film that has Chuck Norris in it. And to top things off, this one has some neat, bloody action in it as well.Chuck's mullet seems to have been updated a little to the '90s in this one, but Norris will always be Norris; a hard-ass with a heart of gold spewing one-liners that are as much silly as they are funny. The whole story didn't become clear to me until I was way into the movie, but it's not a problem. A bonus is to see Michael Parks play a nasty bad guy, although in the middle of the film he disappears for a while. I'm sure there were a few movies just before this one that inspired a lot of this, but it doesn't make it any less fun - just don't take it too seriously. The atmosphere and settings were quite nice; bleak and grim portraits of Seattle and Vancouver and some snowy woods, and nicely filmed.Of course, I can't give this a very high rating, but it was definitely a pleasant way to kill, kill, kill some time. Peace out, save the fish.

Official critics reviewed this movie mostly negative, it is clearly why - corny (officialy dead cop alive under cover) and weak (the chemistry between Grogan and Delaney is obvious and very tensed, but unfortunately Delany appears only at the beginning and towards the end of the movie) plot. Yet still, for an average audience, it is adequate and entertaining. Direction, photography (great depiction of grim and at the same time melancholic autumn) and soundtrack are certainly better parts of the movie. I like the most the fact that Chuck Norris play more, and fights/shoots less, because he is known as a great action hero, but underrated as an actor.

This was an okay movie by Chuck Norris, probably the last sort of good film I saw him in. Like most Norris movies it has a certain appeal mainly thanks to Norris himself, but it also has flaws that prevent this film from being anything special. Add to that an annoying plot point involving a kid and you just have to take a point or two more points off a film that if it had worked on some story elements could have been one of Chuck's best films instead once again another middle of the road film. In it Chuck is not a hit-man, but rather a cop who is undercover working with the mob hoping to find who is behind a crime in his past. There are some good action scenes in this one and I love the gun Chuck Norris uses as it is a nifty double barrel shotgun with the barrels being one on top of the other rather than the typical side by side. Do not ask me why I love the double barreled shotgun that is sawed off. I like the one in the "Mad Max" series though that is the more typical one. This film though is a nice watch, just nothing to take seriously. It needs a bit of work on the story and they need to lose the kid and the stupid scene at the aquarium. Overall, I thought it was okay though.