Rating: 
Summary: Bad beyond belief
Review: I'm a card-carrying Steven Seagal fan (and have taken much abuse for it) but even I know that this movie is a dog. While no masterpiece his other flick from this period "The Foreigner" is much better. One can only hope that he slims down and ups the action for Under Seige 3 otherwise even long time hard-core fans such as myself won't even risk a rental on his movies in future.
Rating:
Summary: Bad beyond belief
Review: I'm a card-carrying Steven Seagal fan (and have taken much abuse for it) but even I know that this movie is a dog. While no masterpiece his other flick from this period "The Foreigner" is much better. One can only hope that he slims down and ups the action for Under Seige 3 otherwise even long time hard-core fans such as myself won't even risk a rental on his movies in future.
Rating: 
Summary: For die hard Seagal fans only
Review: I'm always willing to catch these direct-to-video Seagal flicks, hoping to God that somehow he will regain some of the lustre that he had in his pre-1995 films. Sadly, I'm still waiting after seeing this film. Now this is quite an improvement over Ticker and The Patriot, which were, IMO, the bottom of the barrell for Steve, but I still can't recommend it. The fact of the matter is, he's just too fat to pull off his fight scenes and it's painfully evident here. No amount of quick editing, long shots or dark lighting can hide the fact that he's not fighting and it seemed pretty obvious that most of the opponents he killed here would clean his clock in a real battle. I do have to give the director style points and kudos for creating a fairly well-produced film for what I would imagine is a miniscule budget. The plot as usual was run-of-the mill, but had some weird mystical bits added to it(what was with that monkey wall fighter anyway??) and the acting was bad (especially the asian police detective), but that can be expected and sometimes forgiven with these movies. At least there were no rappers in this one. Not Steve's worse, but not a comeback either. Maybe Under Siege 3?
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Summary: Damm, you all were right...!
Review: Impressive... I saw all your comments on this site and i decided to rent the DVD.
The film look like a cheap old time hong-kong movie, the combats are incredibly funny and Steven Seagal is so funny when he starts teaching us the philosophy of life. At the end, (i accelerated the middle of the movie) i was pleased to have seen such an impressive avatar of what never to do with an action movie.
I have a small thing to ask : i like the music in the following scene 21. The Tattoo Parlor [5:11]
Could someone tell me what is the band and song name? I think this is the only interesting thing in this movie lol
Rating:
Summary: Out For A Kill?
Review: It certainly was not Steve's best work, maybe close to his worst. Some of the scene backgrounds were so obviously fake. Dialog was really bad. The "head" af the "bad dudes" looked like Mimi from Drew Carey without her make up and hair.The thing is, you have to go into Steve's movies knowing what you see is what you get. Over night he is not going to turn into Humphrey Bogart or Richard Burton, any more than JC Van Damme. Once you accept this, their movies are easier to watch. That being said, I would only recommend this to DIE HARD Steven S. fans. And don't buy it, just rent it as cheaply as possible, you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: what are you thinking
Review: O.k. lets get started by saying that if you buy this movie you are going to come back (out of your way) to write a horrible review about it. First off steven sucks he never was good he just had good action films. The guy can't act and can't read scripts. Let's just say that there is diffinatly no good acting in this movie (other then the DEA guy who acts like it is a porn they're filming), nor is there good action, humor, diolog, or suspence. It leaves you wondering "why the hell didn't he cut that awful mullet off?" Enjoy!!
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Summary: should have been better
Review: Out For A Kill is not as entertaining as I'd hoped it would be, but Seagal's Belly Of The Beast was released recently and it's great. Seagal still has it, but Out For A Kill isn't very coherent. Don't let this one deter you. Give Belly Of The Beast a try.
Rating:
Summary: ho hum
Review: Out For A Kill is not one of Seagal's better movies. It misses the mark like many films he has made that I wasn't crazy about such as The Foreigner, Ticker, and The Patriot. It's not unusual for a star to make some duds, but what is unusual is that I feel that Seagal turned out ten very fun movies in a row before being involved in some less than stellar movies. I also think that Half Past Dead and Exit Wounds were both a lot of fun and show that in recent years Seagal has delivered some decent entertainment. All actors have films that aren't the best and Out For A Kill is one of Seagal's. He's made a lot of fun movies, but this aint on of em!
Rating: 
Summary: A GOOD SEAGAL MOVIE
Review: Seagal plays an archeologist who gets into hot water when drug traffickers decide that the artifacts he digs up are as good a place as any to hide their smuggled drugs. But Seagal doesn't like this, nor does he like the fact that they kill his wife and send the DEA and police after him. Will he prove his innocence? Will he avenge the death of his wife? Will his precious archaeological finds survive bullets, car chases, and martial arts mayhem? Who cares? This direct to DVD mess is another one of Seagal's quickly pasted together junkers that is almost painful to watch. There are some well directed fight scenes, but they seem almost as if they were filmed for their own sakes and not for the film's (fake Shaolin monks and a classical monkey kung fu master pop up out of nowhere to fight Seagal just for the sake of adding some action scenes). The rest of the film is amateurishly directed with Seagal filmed from behind and in long shots (probably being doubled most of the time) with his voice added in later (using his standard whisper speak). That dialogue seems to come as an afterthought in an attempt to try to make some sense of what is happening onscreen since the visuals alone simply don't cut the mustard. An example of the director's lack of visual style is witnessed during scenes set at a long table filled with mafia bosses who Steven gradually offs one by one. The numbers of seated people dwindle each time the camera goes back to that table. The leader still speaks with the same determination to his men even when there's just one left sitting there. Obviously all of these scenes were filmed at the same time and the director didn't know how ridiculously repeated this visual theme would turn out. Once again in a Seagal picture the main characters aren't developed to any extent as people with personalities to care for or despise. We are simply expected to root for Seagal because he's on the cover of the box and bad stuff happens to him in the movie so he must be the good guy. The fact that the characters he plays can always beat everyone up is now supposed to be just a given since he's Steven Seagal. The film EXIT WOUNDS proved hopeful for Seagal fans bringing back the Steven we've come to love (an angry, big and tall, regular Joe who uses real martial arts techniques that are appropriate to his character, in that case he plays a tough cop who may have learned these skills for his job), but he has followed that film's success with rubbish. Fans deserve more than just a couple fights in the films they watch. They need at least a semi-interesting story with dialogue and visuals that help move the story along sensibly, and they need semi-interesting characters to like and hate so that the action scenes and the fights have some meaning. OUT FOR A KILL offers a couple of okay fights for Seagal, but they stick out like sore thumbs in an otherwise poorly sewn mitten of a movie. Recommended for diehard fans only.
Rating:
Summary: Sloppy Seconds of Seagal
Review: Seagal plays an archeologist who gets into hot water when drug traffickers decide that the artifacts he digs up are as good a place as any to hide their smuggled drugs. But Seagal doesn't like this, nor does he like the fact that they kill his wife and send the DEA and police after him. Will he prove his innocence? Will he avenge the death of his wife? Will his precious archaeological finds survive bullets, car chases, and martial arts mayhem? Who cares? This direct to DVD mess is another one of Seagal's quickly pasted together junkers that is almost painful to watch. There are some well directed fight scenes, but they seem almost as if they were filmed for their own sakes and not for the film's (fake Shaolin monks and a classical monkey kung fu master pop up out of nowhere to fight Seagal just for the sake of adding some action scenes). The rest of the film is amateurishly directed with Seagal filmed from behind and in long shots (probably being doubled most of the time) with his voice added in later (using his standard whisper speak). That dialogue seems to come as an afterthought in an attempt to try to make some sense of what is happening onscreen since the visuals alone simply don't cut the mustard. An example of the director's lack of visual style is witnessed during scenes set at a long table filled with mafia bosses who Steven gradually offs one by one. The numbers of seated people dwindle each time the camera goes back to that table. The leader still speaks with the same determination to his men even when there's just one left sitting there. Obviously all of these scenes were filmed at the same time and the director didn't know how ridiculously repeated this visual theme would turn out. Once again in a Seagal picture the main characters aren't developed to any extent as people with personalities to care for or despise. We are simply expected to root for Seagal because he's on the cover of the box and bad stuff happens to him in the movie so he must be the good guy. The fact that the characters he plays can always beat everyone up is now supposed to be just a given since he's Steven Seagal. The film EXIT WOUNDS proved hopeful for Seagal fans bringing back the Steven we've come to love (an angry, big and tall, regular Joe who uses real martial arts techniques that are appropriate to his character, in that case he plays a tough cop who may have learned these skills for his job), but he has followed that film's success with rubbish. Fans deserve more than just a couple fights in the films they watch. They need at least a semi-interesting story with dialogue and visuals that help move the story along sensibly, and they need semi-interesting characters to like and hate so that the action scenes and the fights have some meaning. OUT FOR A KILL offers a couple of okay fights for Seagal, but they stick out like sore thumbs in an otherwise poorly sewn mitten of a movie. Recommended for diehard fans only.
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