Product Details

• Actors: Steven Seagal, Tamara Davies, John Pyper-Ferguson, Julian Stone, Nicholas Davidoff
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 26, 2005
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BRBA92
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,180 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Black Dawn" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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BLACK DAWN - DVD Movie

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More of the same, just better, January 31, 2006

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Alan David Mann "Highland Gunn" (Lake Wales, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black Dawn (DVD)

Much like all of his movies,Lord Steven is retired/ undercover/ in hiding/ incognito/ or part of the CIA/ FBI/ Black Ops/ Special undercover group of your choice...
He must personally save the world and his partner/ student from the bad guys that are dealing in Nukes.
If this sounds derrogatory towards the movie it is not! I am a huge Seagal fan and own every movie he has released, I think the production and storyline of Black Dawn is more the caliber of his earlier movies and I quite enjoyed it. I am glad to see he is putting out a better product! But it would not matter because like all TRUE Seagal fans if he is in the movie, I will buy it no matter how bad. I would just like to see his movies return to the big screen where he belongs. If you are a fan buy this you will love it. If you are not a fan buy it anyway as it is a good movie and the plot/ story is good enough that the common action hero movie buffs will like it.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Former Martial Arts Sensei Geting Lazy, June 22, 2006

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Tsuyoshi (Kyoto, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black Dawn (DVD)

The Great One (who is also a producer here) takes up one of his worst films, namely sleep-inducing `The Foreigner,' and he does the same role that nobody seems to remember. One good news is that the sequel turns out more decent than the original, but that isn't saying much.

In `Black Dawn' Steven Seagal plays Jonathan Cold again, who is at first seen helping the brother of one bad arms dealer break out of jail, apparently working for the bad guys. Well, perhaps he should have, for in that case things might have been more interesting than this dull B action film.

Besides the obvious stunt doubles, the inept editing, and the chubby face of the star who seems to prefer to stay out of the `action scenes,' you will see CIA agent played by Tamara Davies, also former protégé of Cold. There is one so-so action involving a runaway garbage truck and some OK shoot-outs, but their terrible acting which occupies most of the second half of the film makes everything dull in the end. The idea of Chechen terrorists or nuke attack are reduced to nothing because of the hulk of the star who seems not to care.

What you see `in Black Dawn' is your former aikido sensei getting lazy in his work. That's a sad thing to see.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a disappointment for the die-hard Seagal fans, December 26, 2005

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A. Luch "_aya_" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Dawn (DVD)

Seagal (Jonathan Cold) is trying to stop Chechen terrorists from deploying a plutonium bomb in the US. In the beginning it's unclear who's on whose team, and there were several scenes with forced suspense that didn't quite feel as tense as it was obviously planned for, but overall this movie is better than some of the latest Seagal flicks.
I'd recommend it for the die-hard fans, although do not expect to see him fighting. He breaks a hand, shoots a few people, and drives like a maniac, but other than that there is no hand-to-hand combat (that Seagal engages in. The other actors did fight, though--if that's a consolation). Overall, a nice movie. Definitely not a blockbuster, but also not a one star by any means.