Out of Reach

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Summary: It's an animal lover against the pedophile Turks
Review: Steven Seagal plays a man who spends his time walking around the forest helping wounded animals and writing to an orphan girl in Poland. She gets kidnapped by human traffickers, but he's ready to rescue her at a moment's notice because he's ex-military, ex-special forces, and ex-swordsman. He's ready to take on the goons consorting with the Turkish government.

That information alone should warn you about this movie.

Now granted, what can you expect? It's Steven Seagal, not Steven Spielburg. But still...this was REALLY bad as far as Seagal movies go, so much that it doesn't really feel like a Seagal movie. I mean most Seagal movies have a corny, cliche plot - but this has no plot to speak of. Seagal goes to Poland and just kind of wonders around looking at things with that same constipated look he has. He could by all accounts end the movie forty minutes end, but instead decides to lumber around Poland some more. The characters in this thing weren't all that great either, like the girl Seagal goes to save isn't as smart as they make her out to be (she does a secret message while the villains are STANDING RIGHT BEHIND HER). Add to that a beautiful Polish police officer who is totally incomprehinsible. You remember that episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 with the zombies at the carnival, and the main character had a friend with a weird hispanic accent nobody could understand? It's like that. There is also this weird black character that somehow knows Seagal (this subplot, like 70% of the movie, is never fully explained) who talks normally, but when he and Seagal have a showdown he suddenly gets an Aunt Jemima accent. "Hey Billy Ray! Wes-a havin' a showdown, Billy Ray!"

So that leaves us to the action, right? That's the reason to watch Steven Seagal films. But no, the action fails us too. Usually in a Seagal film you get action every five minutes - he wakes up in the morning, a guy's broken into his house, he beats him up; he walks out to his car there's a gang there, he beats them up; he drives to work, there's an old lady crossing the street, he beats her up - but there are probably only four action scenes in this whole movie. And they're all bad - I mean lets face it, Steven Seagal has seen better days. He looks like a kung-fu Meatloaf now, I'm sad to say. The fight scenes show that he's lost his original touch, and they scream "I am choreographed." The climax of this goofiness is at the end when they rip off every samurai duel ever filmed. Imagine the village duel at the beginning of "Seven Samurai"...except not good. Oh yeah, that last shot of Seagal in the woods was hilarious: he looks like he's going poo. They try to make him tough and all-knowing like they usually do, but it's just stupid. That scene where he heals the policewoman's bullet wound with a kitchen knife made me think, "Couldn't he just...I don't know...call an ambulance?"

By the way, look out for bloopers in this thing. When the girl does the secret message using food she puts a napkin over it...then she turns around its gone...but when we cut back its reappeared. Also, look at the scene where the main villain gets killed: he falls on the floor and in the first shot his head is turned to the right...but when it cuts above him his head is turned to the left. The editing is thing was so incredibly sad.

I really hope this isn't where Steven Seagal is going in his career, because if it is he is slowly circling the drain as we speak.

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Summary: Say your lines damn it!
Review: The end product would of been much better if Seagal had done his own voice dubbing, with another fight scene thrown in around the middle and an extension to the end confrontation and we would of had a winner in the same vein as Belly Of The Beast only better. We also get 2 Seagal's in this. For the first half of the movie he looks like the same Steven Seagal from Belly Of the Beast but by the end we have a quicker leaner Seagal from the past. There was enough money spent on this but the end result is not worthy of all that cash. How much does it cost to film two people hitting each other for a few minutes! The thing that really ruins this movie and knocks a star of this review is the use of some other actor's voice instead of Seagals. This was also present in Out For A Kill and Belly Of The Beast but to a much greater extent in this one. Not as good as Belly Of The Beast, On a par with The Foreigner but much better than Out For A Kill. Hopefully Into The Sun will continue the upward trend in Seagal movies in terms of production values and entertainment value and lets hope he never drops to the low that was Ticker ever again.

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Summary: the "Worst" Steven Seagle film I've ever commented
Review: What happened to Seagle? I've never seen him in such a bad-prepared and incredibly terrible film before. What is the meaning of bringing Polish and Turkish community opposite of each other? It is definitely nonsense. Why slander a country?Seagle should not have taken place in such a meaningless product like this. There should be some other ways of arising problem of child abuse. I think it is a film which will be remembered not with the action and Seagle's reputation, but it will come to our minds by its enemy creating nature. I really encourage people "NOT to watch" it!!!