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Steven Seagal is out to kill his career..., 16 April 2005
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AwesomeWolf from Australia
Seagal is back, more monotonous than ever and with even less
personality than usual. Unfortunately, that's only the beginning of all
the problems with this so called 'movie'. Now, I'm a big fan of cheap,
mindless action, but even I have limits. 'Out for a Kill' is beyond all
hope.
Seagal plays Robert Burns, a Professor of Chinese History, and Killing
People. Naturally, he has a secret past that he keeps hidden when he is
framed by a Triad family. He is obviously innocent, but for the sake of
keeping the movie going, and thereby torturing the mind of anyone
watching , the lead cop decides he must be guilty, and he is thrown
into a Chinese prison. Naturally, the DEA decides that if they release
Burns, he'll do their job for them and take out the Triads, and so
Burns is free to on a global stroll of death.
Sometimes laughably bad, but generally very cringe-worthy, 'Out for a
Kill' is easily one of the worst movies I've seen. Right from the start
when we are treated to poorly done CGI bullet-time, followed by a
massive break from action clich�s when bullets actually penetrate a car
and kill a good guy. Some clich�s we can do without, but action movies
need the bullet-proof cars. Bullet-proof cars are an essential part of
action movies, and one element you just don't mess with.
I still haven't scratched the surface, because after Oblowitz (the
director) spits in the face of action-movie values, we get treated to a
plot, a very poor plot. Now, I don't think anyone anywhere has ever
watched a Seagal movie expecting a good story, but when there is not
enough action to distract us, we will start paying attention to such
things. In this case, Seagal swears he will get vengeance, but to do
so, he must follow a series of clues which are - get this -
conveniently tattooed on the arms of every bad guy Seagal kills. Bravo.
It would have been much easier for everyone if the Triad boss just
invited Seagal over for a game of mahjong. Throw in a pair of useless
and annoying cops who follow Seagal everywhere and many pointless
scenes, and you may start to get an idea of how bad this movie really
is.
There are a few action sequences in the movie, but maybe only two that
are of any real worth. Sadly, the best bit of this movie is a scene in
which Seagal takes on a monkey-boxer who can defy gravity. Well, there
goes Seagal's unique style of using Aikido in action movies. A few more
movies like this, and Seagal flicks are going to be nothing more than
3rd rate clones of Hong Kong action movies, mark my word. Most of the
fights are poorly choreographed and poorly edited, all based around
trying to make Seagal look like an action hero while trying to hide the
fact that he is still out of shape. It worked in 'Half Past Dead', but
not here.
Onto even more bad news: Here Seagal tries to act a lot, and his
character is just boring. I never thought a boring action hero could
exist, but here you are. He is more monotonous than usual, his
character rarely says or does anything amusing (there is only one scene
where his character does or says something cool) and just lacks
personality. As for the bad guy, the movie returns to his office every
few minute just so he can repeat what he has been saying for the whole
movie, which is something like: "The professor is giving us trouble, we
must get rid of him". I actually felt tempted to barrack for the bad
guy, had he not been so repetitive and annoying.
Some final complaints: The special effects are pretty bad. Apart from
the once-off terrible use of bullet-time, the fake backgrounds stand
off as being laughable. Would filming in daylight have been that hard?
As for Seagal speaking Chinese: it sounds worse than his use of Italian
in 'Out for Justice'.
'Out for a Kill' is a terrible movie. Well deserving of its place in
IMDb's worst 100 movies (it could probably take a higher spot...). I
would not recommend it to fans of Seagal, but anyone willing to see
something so bad it offends that it will offend good conscience should
have a quick look - 1/10
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