The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008)

Agent Nigel Shaw(Wesley Snipes)comes out 'retirement' to avenge the murder of his former mentor. Along the way he allows himself to do some work for a friend(Lochlyn Munro), an actor turning candidate for the Senate. He ends up trying to protect current Senator Carlson(Rachel Hayward)from possible assassination. Shaw does his digging and finds a round robin of political corruption and dead bodies keep piling up. A romance starts brewing when Shaw's mentor's daughter Melina(Athena Karkanis)begins sticking to him like glue.Some high octane martial arts and very good special effects. A simple story seems to become a snake uncoiling. The high tech surveillance is interesting, but the movie on a whole is a bit of a let down. Snipes is very much the hero and Karkanis is so easy to watch. Others in the cast: Winston Rekert, Ryan Mcdonald, Eric Brecker and Olivia Cheng. Its anyone's guess about a third episode.

Wesley Snipes is backing action in this action / thriller genre movie.An agent goes to attend his martial arts tutor's funeral after he is informed of his death. But afterwards, he meets his daughter, who informs him that her father was murdered because of him and his job. The agent, however, begins to dig into this when a friend of his, who is a politician and is aiming to become a senator, starts helping him only to realise that all is not what it seems.Starring Wesley Snipes, Lochlyn Munro, Athena Karkanis, Winston Reckert, Scott Heindi and Michael Ryan, the movie is directed by Josef Rushnak and is written by Jason Bourque and Keith Shaw.This is an action packed movie all the way through – from the beginning, which makes one think what has happened, till the end. There are moments, regarding flashback which makes one remember certain scenes fro the 1970's TV series, "Kung Fu, which helps the story to move on. The only minus points for this movie is that it is predictable but on the other hand, it does have some good action sequences.Conclusion: A good action thriller, which is worth watching at least once.

I tried to watch this movie and only made it through 15mins, About 3 chapters. The music was really bad, and annoying! From the amount that I saw, The movie was poorly produced. The acting made me want to cry, I am surprised others could not see this before it made it out of the cutting room,It should have been left on the floor. It was so atrocious and A complete let down, And I was Shocked to see acting from Wesley Snipes in this manner. I figured he could do so much better, than this piece of (blank). I feel that this is a sign of a career ending of A great actor or a great hit to come. So ending this blog I hope everyone is able to hear through the grape-vine, Not to watch this movie, and don't waste your money.

Let me be perfectly clear. I'm 24 years old and I've never written a review for anything in my life. I've seen movies and used multiple products that I feel were terrible and did not deserved my money, yet I never felt like writing or complain about them. But this movie is so HORRIBLE and BAD! it really fueled this comment. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WATCHING THIS MOVIE. IS BORING and THE PLOT IS MEDIOCRE. I truly wasted my money and my time. Hopefully I did the world some good warning some people of this tragedy. You've been warned! I bought the DVD thinking the movie would be at least half as good as the first Art of War. I'm so disappointed with the production and Wesley Snipes role. I did not expected a blockbuster movie but at least a decent showing. I was wrong.