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Summary: Generation of Genius!
Review: "Out for a Kill" is one of the most monumental movies ever made. Steven Seagal is a hero, one of the best action stars ever. As a college professor, Seagal is on a quest to avenge the death of his wife. When she died, he had the most saddened-looking face I've ever seen (typical Seagal face). The villains are over-the-top and are even worse actors than Seagal. He went to a man's underground lair and said, "Sei Lo, I thought I might find you here, nee how!" Then he said, "You touched the most sacred thing in my life, you killed my wife. Now you've forced me to dig two graves." Buy this movie right now! It's pure lordage.
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Summary: The Long Coat Doesn't Hide the Huge Seagal
Review: After buying 'The Foreigner' I had made up my mind to never buy another Steven Segal movie - then I weakened and bought 'Out For a Kill'. I should have followed my own advice. The long coat doesn't hide the garguantuan, old, made-up, lethargic Steven Seagal. The plot was so phoney and there must be something wrong with Seagal's voice because he sounded like a cartoon character. After two movies of long coats, the real-life, out-of-shape Steven Seagal shines forth. The obvious dyed hair (to hide the gray) didn't work. He needs to cut off the locks and create a new character - the martial arts moon has eclipsed. Maybe a hard-boiled city detective who shows the young s***s some tricks?
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Summary: The pony-tailed one kills his career
Review: After having the misfortune to sit through THE FOREIGNER I consolled myself with the preconception that although Steven Seagal may never make a truly great movie; & he may never be able to act he at least can't stoop any lower than that. Can he?
Then I rented OUT FOR A KILL. I could end my review here; but I feel it is my duty to waste a few minutes summarising this dreck & then cautioning people against renting it (this set me back NZ$4!)
The "plot" centers around a Chinese gang war led by drug dealer Tommy Li (ha ha), who is assembling dealers from Paris, NY, London, Shanghai et al in a bid to gain 100% control of the World's drug market, run exclusively by the Chinese (How racist!) Who can stop these evil [insert preferred term/expletive here]? Steven Seagal that's who!
Seagal (looking very old & pudgy) plays Robert Burns (no Scots accents cuz Steve can't act. Hoots mon!) an archeologist, professor & academic. A mere ten minutes into the movie & credibilty has already flown out the window.
Steve runs afoul of these drug kingpins when they murder his pretty Chinese partner while he's on a dig in Kazakstan- this is shot in a supremely daft digital "travelling bullet" sequence. But Steve is framed for the murder and arrested. So Steve escapes & seeks bloody revenge. If only real life were that simple!
OUT FOR A KILL is just one of many unremarkable straight to DVD actioners clogging video store shelves. Even the martial arts sequences are snore inducing. In addition to this the main Chinese villains are all brick-outhouse types clad in well-cut business suits who sit arouhd a big mahogany table in a dark smoky boardroom planning their next move. That's always a bad sign. And in addition to THIS there are loads of unconvincing martial arts fights where you can see the fly-by wire harnessed to the actor if you look carefully enough.
This is just marginally more watchable than THE FOREIGNER, but OUT FOR A KILL makes UNDER SIEGE look like a true blue Oscar contender. Even by Steve's low standards this is pretty lousy.
The movie is Directed by Michael Oblowitz; who made the last half-decent Seagal vehicle HALF PAST DEAD, Co-produced by Seagal & his ego & Produced by Avi Lerner & BOAZ DAVIDSON, which is always a bad sign. View at your own risk. Though there IS a car chase an hour or so into the movie which is halfway decent; but why suffer through this slop when you can watch BULLITT or THE FRENCH CONNECTION?
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Summary: What a waste of time...lower than one star movie.
Review: Although the movie is classified an action film, it turns out to be a comedy instead...well, inadvertantly it becomes humorous since you end up laughing at how awful the film is. Mr. Seagal is obviously past his prime. Always the slow, quiet talker yet quick with his hands, now he appears to be in pain throughout the movie as he trudges from scene to scene, and his hands are not doing much in the way of action anymore either. They are usually in his pockets. He has aged, put on weight, and become tired. Even he appears bored with this film. Too bad. He used to be fun to watch. All of the actors are terrible, especially the head of the trying-to-form-a-unified-Chinese-syndicate guy. Wow. He just keeps repeating himself. "This professor is becoming a problem. We must take care of him..." "This professor is becoming a problem. We must take care of him..." Oh, do you want to know who the bad guys are and who to shoot at when in a restaurant or bar? Just look for guys wearing sunglasses in dimly lit rooms and smoking cigars. Talk about low budget; there is a chance that the scenes were all shot in someone's backyard to cut costs. I even had to activate the subtitles in order to be able to tell what anyone was saying - the music and the constant thunder drown out the dialogue. Oh, and I am still wondering what happened to Seagal's cellmate who was supposed to be released from prison as part of departing Seagal's promise? Alas, the cellmate never reappears. This, as it turns out, is the only mystery in the entire movie. Have time on your hands and want to watch a good action film? Keep looking. This one is not it. Someone owes me a refund.
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Summary: Doesn't deserve any stars
Review: First, I WAS a huge fan of Seagal, I love his first 6 movies or so. What's happened???? Don't know, don't care, but don't waste your money of this garbage he is putting out now. This movie was so pathetic I couldn't even finish watching it. I ONCE respected the fact that Seagal had legitimately studied martial arts in Asia and was an authentic martial artist. The martial arts in this movie are a FRAUD, a combination of a fat man moving poorly with camera tricks borrowed from the Matrix. This junk doesn't deserve a single star, it isn't worth the carboard box it comes in.
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Summary: Wasted 60 minutes
Review: First, I've been a huge fan of Steven Seagal. But this movie sinks to a new low (it doesn't deserve any stars). Poor filming, poor dialogue, poor martial arts (almost no aikido). I kept watching, hoping it would get better, or at least the action would be interesting, but gave up after an hour. No redeeming value whatsoever, save your money and your time.
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Summary: Definately the dumbest movie i've ever seen
Review: For starter's i was a big Seagal fan in the late 80's early 90's..his movies were real,raw,and the fight scenes were classic.This has some of the cheesiest one liner's from the whole cast that i've probably EVER seen or heard,even Charles Bronson's Death Wish flicks were'nt this bad.Also the fight scenes are Speed up,slow down,speed up,slow down again,my god just fight.And i shouldnt neglect to mention the computer technology in the movie could have been done by my grandma who can't even run a computer.This is like a horrible matrix rip off with the horrible action motion,stops and starts.And its also plotless.Save yourself the pain and just go watch Finding Nemo.This goes in the movie waste ben.
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Summary: What a DISAPPOINTMENT !!!!
Review: I am a big Steven Seagal fan. I wish there was something good I could say about this movie. Unfortunately, I purchased it on DVD (which had no added extras, except trailers) and was really disappointed. I would recommend any of Mr.Seagal's other movies. But not this one. If you are thinking of purchasing it anyway, then please rent it first.
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Summary: What is this?
Review: I can't make any sense out of this film at all. The only highlight is a martial artist using monkey gung-fu. I'm a Seagal fan who is still waiting for him to make a come back. I admired & respected his environmental-awareness films (Fire Down Below, On Deadly Ground, The Patriot).
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Summary: What is this?
Review: I can't make any sense out of this film at all. The only highlight is a martial artist using monkey gung-fu. I'm a Seagal fan who is still waiting for him to make a come back. I admired & respected his environmental-awareness films (Fire Down Below, On Deadly Ground, The Patriot).
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