True Justice S2: Blood Alley

Done:

Now we get to Blood Alley, promoted as the second double-episode in the second season. This will be the first time in the entire history of the show that an instalment has been released in the correct chronological order. If Violence of Action – next month’s release – follows suit then it may be that finally this show is being released correctly (after the calamity with last season).


Although it still doesn't change the squished effect. Rastafari, have you seen the rest of the season? Can you confirm if they do this same effect in all the later episodes as well?
 

DiDa

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DiDa

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I received my blu ray copy of Blood Alley and I watched it yesterday!

SPOILERS:

In Vengeance Is Mine Kane and his new team took out a group of Serbian gangsters which were lead by Milan Saric. According to Kane’s friend at the CIA, Marcus, Saric had contacts with Karadzic. Kane and Marcus both want Karadzic, who seems to be responsible for the attack on Kane and his team.
It didn’t bring them any step closer. In Blood Alley Marcus asks Kane to help him take out a high-level Chinese gang boss involved in human and organ smuggling. It seems that Karadzic is one of the buyers and is a middle man for a mysterious CIA-target only known as The Ghost.

I have to say that Season 2 is getting better and better. I also have to say (again) that I am happy that the story continues. That’s better then just have a new story every True Justice movie. I can confrim this is episode 3 and 4. Also a few characters from season 1 are seen again. It’s great for the continuity. But at the end of Blood Alley the story starts to get a little confusing. I will get to that later.
We watch True Justice for Seagal and all I can say is that we get a lot of cool stuff from Seagal in Blood Alley. There are 4 fight scenes and all the fight are brutal old-school. It helps that the fights are filmed from a certain distance so that we can actually see what happens. We can also see that it is really Seagal.
Before the first (short) fight scene in the club we get some old school Seagal tough guy dialogue! Very cool! And…NO voice dubbing. Yes, Seagal is really putting some effort in this series.
The other team members also get their moments. It’s cool to see that it’s not only Seagal who saves the day. He needs his team mates to get the job done and the way they cooperate is directed very well by director Wayne Rose.

I really liked Blood Alley, but there is one thing that’s bothering me. I think I didn’t get the whole story. I hope someone can help me. I have some issues / questions:

  • After Kane kills Dr. Zee he speaks to Karadzic on the phone. Kane asks Karadzic why he attacked him and his team. Karadzic tells him that it wasn’t him and that Kane already has the man who gave the order: Milan Saric (the leader from the Serbian gangster in Vengeance Is Mine). After Kane verifies this with Finch it seems that Saric was a CIA informant. What does this mean? Does it mean that the CIA gave the order to kill Kane and his team? Is Marcus not who he says he his? Does Marcus have another purpose?
  • Who killed Mason?
  • In the official synopsis it is said that The Ghost is the one who ordered the hit, but in Blood Alley nothing about this is said. Marcus quickly refers to The Ghost, but nothing is said about him being the one who gave to order.
I hope someone can clear these things up. Maybe someone has a theory on this.

But Blood Alley is a really fun movie with some good old school Seagal scenes, an interesting story and nice cinematography.
 

DiDa

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I just watched the trailer for Violence Of Action and I noticed the character Milan Saric in the trailer. So I hope my questions will be answered in that movie...

Can someone confirm? It seems I am the only one who saw Blood Alley...
 
I really liked Blood Alley, but there is one thing that’s bothering me. I think I didn’t get the whole story. I hope someone can help me. I have some issues / questions:

  • After Kane kills Dr. Zee he speaks to Karadzic on the phone. Kane asks Karadzic why he attacked him and his team. Karadzic tells him that it wasn’t him and that Kane already has the man who gave the order: Milan Saric (the leader from the Serbian gangster in Vengeance Is Mine). After Kane verifies this with Finch it seems that Saric was a CIA informant. What does this mean? Does it mean that the CIA gave the order to kill Kane and his team? Is Marcus not who he says he his? Does Marcus have another purpose?
  • Who killed Mason?
  • In the official synopsis it is said that The Ghost is the one who ordered the hit, but in Blood Alley nothing about this is said. Marcus quickly refers to The Ghost, but nothing is said about him being the one who gave to order.
I hope someone can clear these things up. Maybe someone has a theory on this.

Have to say that I don't have any clear answers for this. Marcus is definitely a suspect, but since I haven't seen the end of the series I don't know how that will pan out (given that they've already had an 'is Marcus bad?' theme in Season 1, they probably won't go full tilt here and make him a villain, which is a shame).

I have no idea who killed Mason, I think that whole sub-plot was dealt with REALLY BADLY. Seagal's Kane barely registered when he heard the news, as if somebody told him that the coffee machine was broken and he'd have to go to the local starbucks if he wanted a drink. We have to assume it was The Ghost as that was the implication. Similarly we have to assume initially that it was Karadzic who ordered the entire hit on his team, although Saric becomes a bigger player later and thus the focus shifts to him.

There's one important twist in the double-episode after Violence of Action (that is eps 7-8) that points towards a tougher threat than Kane previously imagined, but I'll leave that for you to find out when you finally get to see it.

I think the only way to be clear about things happening in TJ Season 2 is by watching the entire season regularly over the course of consecutive weeks (i.e. over 6-7 weeks) but since it's been released once every couple of months, it'll likely take many of us a year to get to the end and, by then, we'll have no damn idea who The Ghost is, nor will we care.

I think that many of the earlier episodes in the show (including SoV and Blood Alley) only hint at The Ghost because they have to also tell sub-plot missions, like the mission to stop the organ harvesting guy, or the suitcase nukes further on. I'm guessing we won't actually meet The Ghost until the end...
 

rastafari

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Have to say that I don't have any clear answers for this. Marcus is definitely a suspect, but since I haven't seen the end of the series I don't know how that will pan out (given that they've already had an 'is Marcus bad?' theme in Season 1, they probably won't go full tilt here and make him a villain, which is a shame).

I have no idea who killed Mason, I think that whole sub-plot was dealt with REALLY BADLY. Seagal's Kane barely registered when he heard the news, as if somebody told him that the coffee machine was broken and he'd have to go to the local starbucks if he wanted a drink. We have to assume it was The Ghost as that was the implication. Similarly we have to assume initially that it was Karadzic who ordered the entire hit on his team, although Saric becomes a bigger player later and thus the focus shifts to him.

There's one important twist in the double-episode after Violence of Action (that is eps 7-8) that points towards a tougher threat than Kane previously imagined, but I'll leave that for you to find out when you finally get to see it.

I think the only way to be clear about things happening in TJ Season 2 is by watching the entire season regularly over the course of consecutive weeks (i.e. over 6-7 weeks) but since it's been released once every couple of months, it'll likely take many of us a year to get to the end and, by then, we'll have no damn idea who The Ghost is, nor will we care.

I think that many of the earlier episodes in the show (including SoV and Blood Alley) only hint at The Ghost because they have to also tell sub-plot missions, like the mission to stop the organ harvesting guy, or the suitcase nukes further on. I'm guessing we won't actually meet The Ghost until the end...[/quote

I have seen the full series but i wont give plot spoilers has it ruins it for everyone else

for me the problem with the series is there are too many villians and by episode 10 I lost interest with it

the series is being repeated at the moment in the UK so i may watch the latter episodes again
 

rastafari

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Have to say that I don't have any clear answers for this. Marcus is definitely a suspect, but since I haven't seen the end of the series I don't know how that will pan out (given that they've already had an 'is Marcus bad?' theme in Season 1, they probably won't go full tilt here and make him a villain, which is a shame).

I have no idea who killed Mason, I think that whole sub-plot was dealt with REALLY BADLY. Seagal's Kane barely registered when he heard the news, as if somebody told him that the coffee machine was broken and he'd have to go to the local starbucks if he wanted a drink. We have to assume it was The Ghost as that was the implication. Similarly we have to assume initially that it was Karadzic who ordered the entire hit on his team, although Saric becomes a bigger player later and thus the focus shifts to him.

There's one important twist in the double-episode after Violence of Action (that is eps 7-8) that points towards a tougher threat than Kane previously imagined, but I'll leave that for you to find out when you finally get to see it.

I think the only way to be clear about things happening in TJ Season 2 is by watching the entire season regularly over the course of consecutive weeks (i.e. over 6-7 weeks) but since it's been released once every couple of months, it'll likely take many of us a year to get to the end and, by then, we'll have no damn idea who The Ghost is, nor will we care.

I think that many of the earlier episodes in the show (including SoV and Blood Alley) only hint at The Ghost because they have to also tell sub-plot missions, like the mission to stop the organ harvesting guy, or the suitcase nukes further on. I'm guessing we won't actually meet The Ghost until the end...

dont get your hopes up about the end
 
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