Got to say as well as a Dolph fan this has got by far the best critical response of any of his movies, by quite some way. The best thing is that non fans and some people who disliked him before have been impressed. The only other film to get near this much praise for Dolph was The Defender. I can't wait to see what he does next especially as he's looking into producing and writing too. I'm also pleased that he's in the Sony DVD club now, they are the top DTV distributors and he's back with the big boys Seagal, Snipes and VD, who all have Sony films coming out in the near future. Sure they don;t offer any features but the DVD's themselves always have decent sound and picture, while they can garauntee a more substantial distribution. If Mechanik does well Dolph's budgets will increase and then who knows? Perhaps the funds will be there to bring Seagal in.