Roland Flint (Scott Adkins) takes a job to kill the recently released drug lord Polo Yakur who put his wife in a coma. Just as he is about to take the killshot, he's interrupted by assassin-for-hire Vincent Brazil (Jean-Claude Van Damme). They both fail in their attempts and reluctantly join forces against corrupt Interpol agents to hunt down their elusive target.

Ernie Barbarash is very much a B-movie director. The start is too disjointed trying to get the movie going. The movie improves once the two guys team up. They are able to develop a little bit of chemistry. Adkins is a bit stiff but Van Damme has a small amount of fun. Van Damme has that faded star quality and would make for a good villain. This is not that bad but it doesn't exceed its B-movie DNA.

The movie comes at you fast with a lot of major plot points in the beginning.

The film opens with a Ukrainian wedding scene. Waiters are getting patted down. One waiter (Jean-Claude Van Damme),skilled in knives, cuts the throat of the big boss and escapes to his secret apartment...meanwhile another assassin, Flint lives in seclusion caring for his comatose wife (Bianca Van Varenberg).

Also going on is a quick scene involving an Interpol corruption scandal and an investigation. Seems Interpol is selling guns that they seize back to the criminals. They are afraid that Flint(Scott Adkins) can take them down, so they order his assassination. In order to flush him out they release a crime boss named Polo (Ivan Kaye) from prison, who had gang raped and beat Flint's wife comatose. In addition to Flint, Jean-Claude Van Damme is also summoned to do the Polo assassination. Polo is hunting the man who killed his brother in the first scene.

Now if this wasn't enough, Van Damme is distracted by his new neighbors, a prostitute (Marija Karan) and a pimp who beats her. Van Damme doesn't want Flint to kill Polo or else he loses his fee. Flint realizes Interpol set him up by freeing Polo, so he wants to kill them too. Everybody in the film is out to kill everybody else. Got all that?

Unlikely alliances form to narrow down the factions. Outside of Van Damme, the acting was acceptable. While the plot sounds complex, it really isn't that hard to follow, unless you have problems following Steven Seagal movies. It takes a while to build up all the factions and reasons for wanting to kill each other, but once it does things move rather quickly.

F-bomb (with Ukrainian accent),violence against women (its a Van Damme film),brief nudity, torture.

Pairing Scott Adkins and van Damme seems to bring the best out of those two actors (other examples being Expandables 2 and of course the most recent Universal Soldier). Of course in those movies and in this the pairing has a different agenda and a different relationship to each other, so I won't go into what makes them tick in this movie, so it won't be spoiled.

What I can say, is that the action in this movie is more than decent, which can also be said about the acting. It's not your run of the mil action movie with just some random action scenes in it. There has been put a lot of thought behind this and if you're not to concerned about the next big action scene coming up, you will be able to quite enjoy it