stock-1 Someone reviewed with 'Wesley Snipes Means No Budget These Days...', which might even be the case , but the Art of War II really means business. What Hollywood blockbuster of recent years made - or even tried to make - a mockery of the Homeland Security Department ? Not many except for this one. Although the timing, as is the case with Sun Tzu's art of war, of getting the Homeland Security rats cornered inside an abandoned ship can never be predicted accurate to the micro second, Snipes does a remarkable job of taking them out. The expose of the Homeland Security rats inside 'The Art of War II: Betrayal' apparently was painful enough to force the producers to back out to Canada and subsequently into an immediate for Video release only, instead of movies theaters. So yes, the 1 star only reviews are a interesting read when it concerns Sun Tzu's Art of War part II : Betrayal, where the movie ending would even surprise the Master himself. Even though the cliché about Senators taking bribes from an upstart Arms Research company may, at first sight, not seem that shocking, Snipes delivers as expected inside an interesting movie, which was forced across the Homeland Security border in order to get it released. One should really wonder what or who forced this to happen. Conclusion : The DVD box of this one is a collectors item.

wildpeace10 The first one was pretty good except for the bloody scenes which i pretty much disliked.This one is clearly a low budget product from the director of the contractor, a film which was even superior to this one.It has fights in the dark where you get the impression that snipes'double did most if not all of the fighting.The DVD even has alternative fight scenes which really don't look that much different from those actually in the film.In about every snipes action film straight to DVD, i can find something to like and this one isn't different but you need patience and i really was getting to lose mine at 45 minutes.Something interesting happens at about 49 minutes(unfortunately it starts getting in the flat and boring zone oncein a while after that) and you can tell until the end that the scriptisn't the main problem but the directing is.it's mostly flat and boring but a better directorwith a bigger budget could have made something good out of it.I also really hated the ending.You see ... there's a traitor(not such a big surprise when you see so many movies) at the end and that person is being killed in cold blood by snipes.The whole thing is so flat and dull that it simply doesn't feel true and leaves the viewer unsatisfied.This art of war sequel is indeed a betrayal of the first one since it hardly has any real connection to it (bringing marie makito could have helped) and is so far below in quality.Apparently nobody was aiming high with this and it shows.

rogerbee I just finished watching this movie and it was fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed the camera work, Wesley Snipes did an awesome job. Watch the movie and you'll see what I am talking about.Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't matter where the movie was shot. And what does his legal problems have to do with any movie? Plot twists and tweaks were common, and I thought the script was well written.Pay particular attention to the wardrobes, not terribly overstated, yet very believable. If you've ready anything about the actual "Art Of War" by Sun Tzu, you'll see a lot of it in this movie. It was actually written in the 6th Century BC ,consisted of 13 chapters and was a military treatise. Yet a great deal of it applies even today.

moviemaker73 I got this movie thinking it was going to be as good as the the first. Wow was I surprised to see how WRONG I was. The first Art of War was a good movie. The story line was good. Camera action was on point. Directing was good. Acting was OK. Now this movie was missing all of that. The camera shots looked like the camera man didn't know how to use the camera. He kept on moving pass the shot he wanted, then kept going back to the original shot. Camera kept jumping. Don't know if they meant to do that or not. Directing could of been better. The script could of been so much better. They should of re-read the script before they shot. If you guys want to see a good Art of War, watch the original