Director: Keoni Waxman
Notable Cast: Michael
Jai White, Luke Goss, Randy Couture, Madalina Anea, Grant Campbell, George
Remes, Ovidiu Niculescu, Andreea Diac, Michaela Holla
In a strange way, I felt a lot of hype for The Hard Way. Weird, huh? It’s a
straight to home video (Netflix this time around!) action film with a very
limited budget, a generic plot, and almost no marketing behind it. There are
two things that intrigued me. Firstly, the cast is stellar for low budget
action fans. Having Michael Jai White team up with Luke Goss is gold in terms
of second tier action. Both of these guys deserve their own A-list franchises,
but until that happens, we have to appreciate their screen stealing abilities
in films like The Hard Way. Secondly,
the film is directed by Keoni Waxman. If you look through some of my previous
reviews for films from this director, you will see that I often give him the benefit
of the doubt for making watchable films around all of the issues of having
Steven Seagal as a lead. This is his first action film without Aikido Dracula
in like a decade. That’s also exciting.