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The film takes place in 2029, however it is more like Orwell's "1984." The Director (Steven Seagal) is watching and uses The Controller (Richard Tyson) to maintain law and order through operators such as Condor (Johnny Messner). He is tasked to put down the rebellion, those who speak about freedom, although those against government oversight look like organized crime...a film with all bad guys.

Condor fails a mission and is destined for "reprogramming" but things don't go as planned. Once Steven Seagal shows up, the movie goes downhill. This time he didn't even pretend to fight, and listening to him talk about spinal nerve connections and massage was more of a laugh than anything. The film has twists you don't see coming, the final one was simply for the sake of having a twist, and it was dumb, most likely a Seagal insertion.

Guide: Brief sex and nudity

"The Perfect Weapon" begins like a sequel to George Orwell's novel "1984." The year is now 2029, and it is the essence of the mind control exerted by Big Brother, as conceived by Orwell.

But instead of developing a strong theme about human freedom, "The Perfect Weapon" is a muddled and excessively violent action/revenge film.

The two main characters are named Condor and Nina, and they presumably are the two rebels who value freedom and want to free the world from Big Brother. But there are two many double crosses in the scenario, so that it is difficult to empathize with either Condor of Nina.

The crucial scene is when Condor finally has the opportunity to reunite with Nina. It appears that she has betrayed him, but it is clear to us as the viewers that his love is genuine. In the moment that follows, the film falls completely flat with the decision made by our "perfect weapon" named Condor.

This film has received one of the lowest numerical rankings I have ever seen on IMDb. Those low numbers tell the whole story about this film turkey.

"Killer Dogs" director Titus Paar's fifth feature film "The Perfect Weapon" ranks as a subpar, Orwellian, sci-fi thriller set in 2029 America where a repressive totalitarian state maintains 24/7 surveillance. Paar and three other scenarists: first-time scribe Alex Brenner, Jesse Cilio of "The Story of Your Life," and Ulysses Oliver of "The Refugees" are to blame for this formulaic Big Brother potboiler that brings nothing new to the table. Undoubtedly, Paar inserted recurring neon-scintillating, nocturnal city-scapes designed to evoke Ridley Scott's landmark "Bladerunner." The society of "The Perfect Weapon" has just survived a terrible war, but a ruler known as the Director who intends to keep its fascist practices to hold society together. Paar displays neither imagination nor artistry in staging the action scenes. Johnny Messner doesn't make much of an impression. Richard Tyson plays the most interesting character, while the paunchy Seagal gives his usual peripheral performance. Clearly, the low-budget is reflected prominently in the shortage of futuristic cars. Most of the technology looks Microsoft inspired and the cell phones are only nominally altered. Johnny Messner portrays an anonymous "Hitman" type assassin with a cleanly shaven noggin named Axon Rey. Code-named Condor, our hero brandishes two automatic pistols with silencers. An honorably discharged veteran with medals who has been wounded three times, Condor is an elite assassin with 38 successful sanctions to his credit. The natty Condor demonstrates his expertise with an automatic pistol when he ices a traitorous politician, White (Lance E. Nichols of "American Heist"), who has been hacking propaganda inserts into the Federation's television network. Disastrously, Condor errs when he spares by the life of an innocent bystander with the politician. Condor's lapse in judgment prompts the Controller (Richard Tyson of "Black Hawk Down") to point a gun in his face and tell him he must have his emotions purged. Meantime, with his slicked-back hair and orange-tinted sunglasses, Steve Seagal plays The Director of this futuristic society in what is essentially a supporting role. Predictably, he isn't happy about Condor's conduct and prefers to kill him. The Controller convinces his superior to allow Condor live and be reprogramed.

No sooner has our heavily tattooed protagonist been packed off for reconditioning at Gulag 7 than he breaks out of custody. This change-of-plot action occurs about a half-hour into this thriller. Our hero discovers that his affectionate wife, Nina (Sasha Jackson of "Jarhead 3: The Siege"), is alive instead of dead. Indeed, Condor has felt horrible since his blond wife supposedly died two years earlier. They have a steamy shower scene together after they reunite. Before these long-lost lovers can consummate their love, the state's storm troopers smash down the door and The Interrogator (Vernon Wells of "Weird Science") shackles him to a wall and torture him with gusto. Of course, we expect our heroes must suffer for the good of society. The Interrogator wants to know the identity of the mole who helped Condor escape from the Gulag. He uses pliers to extract Condor's teeth. Ultimately, he wants to use a razor to slice off his genitals. "It is unavoidable," the Interrogator defends his judgment. The Controller surprises both Condor and us when he blasts the top of the Interrogator's head off. The Controller informs Condor that he must now eliminate the Director.

Condor and the Director square off. Initially, the Director trounces Condor and then struggles to reason with his best killer. Mind you, the Director should have killed Condor, but you cannot kill the hero of the movie. "The Perfect Weapon" then deploys its first surprise. The evil Controller has programmed Condor so he believes that Nina is his wife and that she has died. Condor is in the Director's lair when he sees the video of the Controller's revelations. The Controller is the actual insurrectionist, and Condor sets out to destroy terminate him. The second surprise occurs when Nina guns down the Controller at point-blank range. After he learns that Nina has betrayed him, Condor executes her without the least bit of sympathy. When Condor and the Director share drinks after the outcome, our hero kills the Director with a knife and leaves him to bleed out. The Director's red-bereted guard is prepared to splatter our hero all over the palace, but a swarm of sword-wielding people intervene and frees society. In the third and final surprise, we learn that the Director's brother had been impersonating him the entire time. The real Director is poised to step forward.

"The Perfect Weapon" qualifies as a perfect bore. Not even its three surprises make it worth watching.

I think I'm beginning to learn my lesson. I recently caught Seagal's film "A Good Man", and it was a shocker to see how old and out of shape he's gotten, not so good for a former action star. But here, and thankfully he's not on screen that long, he's simply ballooned all out of proportion to someone who once took his art and fitness somewhat seriously.

But what's even worse here is the story. There's so much inane stuff going on that it's hard to keep a straight face. Like the most inept team of assassins ever, firing upon the story's protagonist, Axon Rey, the Condor (Johnny Messner), and his former girlfriend Nina (Sasha Jackson), somehow miraculously brought back from the dead, until we find out it was a body double that was buried in her place. So there's that, but what's entirely laughable is the idea that Axon and Nina would attempt to find refuge from the hit team in his own apartment! He even mentioned it was the most likely place for the goon squad to look, which made the whole idea even more of a joke.

I don't know what it could possibly be. Does Steven Seagal actually need the money to appear in and produce a picture this bad? If this isn't the hokiest assassin flick ever I'd be surprised to come across a worse one, at least in the present day. And if the Matt Lauer look-alike Johnny Messner shows up in any more pictures like this, he might as well abbreviate his last name to Mess.

Steven Seagal vehicles are a safe bet for me because at best i am going to get an action film with poor acting, but an intriguing story (Pistol Whipped) and at worst an incomprehensible dumpster fire top loaded with poor creative decisions (Out For A Kill) with more comedic value than the last five Will Farrell movies combined. THE MATH puts Perfect Weapon at 55% the former and 45% the latter exactly.

To the surprise of no one who has seen Seagal's output in the 2010's, one of the world's greatest living leaders according to Vladmir Putin is in this entire film for less than ten minutes. The majority of the film revolves around a Vin Diesel looking government assassin and his girlfriend trying to evade the clutches of the deepest of deep states and true to action sci-fi form, the assassin becomes the saviour of a resistance group trying to take the man down. The story is cliche, nonsensical and ridden with plot holes.

The one time enjoyment of The Perfect Weapon will be found in the 90's time warped art direction, the multi-coloured cinematography, the surprisingly bloody violence and the care free attitude of the cast, who all manage to chew bare the scenery through their aimless understatement. This is no different than anything Seagal was making in the late 90's and there's a chintzy, only slightly pitiable charm to be found in that.

The Perfect Weapon is sci-fi action trash served straight wide a serving of Steven Seagal's trademark empty headed pontification.

If I could give this movie a zero, I would. I really don't know what I was thinking even attempting to watch this trash. I only made it 45 minutes and then I stopped, retrieved a gallon of gasoline, poured it all over my big screen TV, lit a match, tossed it, and walked away. I'm not even gonna begin to try and dissect this nonsense. There's some bald dude, he's a bad guy, then he's a good guy, a blond chick whose dead, then she isn't, Seagal wearing stupid glasses and dressed in black - surprise surprise. Yada, yada, yada, couldn't care less. If you want to be entertained, forget about watching this dung heap, you'd have more fun tying your shoes.

And the year of Seagal continues, with this, his take on 1984's Big Brother, and oh my gosh, is it poor stuff......

In the not so distant future (is there any other kind of future?), society is controlled by a powerful State and a very strangely haired, goateed, former credible action star dictator known as the Director.

Condor works as a hit-man (47) for the State, but a reunion with someone he thought was dead forces him to consider who his enemies really are.........

Seagal has had some stinkers this year, from the Sniper film, to the Asian Connection, to he one with Craig Sheffer in, and another one where the title is part of a weapon.

But now he's ventured back into science fiction, and if you thought Attack Force and Against The Dark were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Seagal is thankfully barely in it, but that means you only have to be intolerant with another 'actor' who is trying to be Agent 47, but comes across as a seriously constipated mute.

Everyone is being watched, no one is safe, and in this dystopian future, you really couldn't care less what happens or if Seagal's director will be overthrowed.

It all ends with Seagal looking morbidly obese, explaining to Hit-man about life and how good the early nineties were to him, but it tries to fool the viewer with a twist, and if you are a Seagal fan (which you must be if your watching this trash), then you will know the final scene is lifted straight from Marked For Death.

And then there's the promise of a sequel.

Other reviews got it spot on, but basically the errors within the movie are painful to watch sometimes. I could not understand how object in the movie where more important to display than reason for them to be there. No good can come from this and the hidden message is clear enough if you understand "police state" and "facebook" + "google"...there are better movies depicking these topics. rewatch Judge Dredd or Minority Report.

Here be spoilers SPOILER, but when a person is trown against a mirror, and it breaks like car windows do. Like tempered glass, breaking in there little square blocks and the goodie beats the baddie by grabbing a big chunk, a real shard and behind the baddie, you can still see the whole mirror, in one piece, broken, but all glass still in place... Its relatively in the beginning of the movie.

So, if you can take this or drink some beer and want a beat em up movie... this might be something. There is some partial nudity and some "deeper" message that Seagal tries to bring upon you. but he could have written a blogpost and made more headlines. this movie is painful to watch, direction errors, people don't seem to talk yet you hear them, somewhat plot holes and the kills... seem unrealistic and needlessly displayed more bloody then would in real life. and no.... sadly not so badly that it is funny. CGI is 90s B movie style... overall, a bad movie.

Who is gonna read my review if others written better ones? well, if you find my review weird and still wanna watch it. Go on. There is some cute blonde girl in the movie and Seagal is fighting bad... SPOILER, goodies... what? yes, this time he is the baddie. But hes older too, so no awesome real fights, just cutscene just so it seems he fights. There is some message you could talk about, like how many times you see a Illuminati reverence. And why (SPOILER) does he kills the lady he thought he loved. And ..

MESSAGE TO Steven seagal: do you really intend for a second movie? please... Don't. make some reality show in Rusia or ask Trump for some whitehouse action BeatTheBaddies. This was not it and the ending.... insert disappointing strong word.