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Out for a Kill

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I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD EVER SEE A GOOD STEVEN SEAGAL MOVIE EVER AGAIN, BUT HE DEFINITELY PROVED ME WRONG WITH THIS ONE. A PROFESSOR IS FRAMED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING. BUT JUST DAYS AFTER HE'S RELEASED FROM JAIL, THE SYNDICATE THAT FRAMED HIM THEN KILLS HIS WIFE. WANTING REVENGE, HE GOES ON AN EXTREMELY VIOLENT QUEST TO FIND THE SYNDICATE THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT ALL. MY QUESTION IS WHY WASN'T THIS RELEASED IN THEATRES? YOU GOTTA ADMIT, THIS DEFINITELY DOESN'T FEEL LIKE A DIRECT TO VIDEO MOVIE. FILLED WITH SPECTACULAR FIGHTS AND IT'S FILLED WITH A LOT OF THINGS TO GRAB YOUR ATTENTION. HOWEVER, IF YOU'RE SQUEAMISH, YOU MIGHT NOT WANNA WATCH THIS MOVIE DUE TO ITS EXTREME AMOUNTS OF VIOLENCE AND GORE. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, A VERY ENTERTAINING ACTION MOVIE WITH A SHOCKINGLY VIOLENT FINALE. GO TO YOUR LOCAL VIDEOSTORE AND RENT THIS NOW! YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU DID!

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.

The worst Seagal movie I've ever seen. I have all his other movies but pass on this one. Corny acting, bad filming, bad dialogue, bad story line. Just an all around bad movie. And Seagal is looking bad. He better start getting himself back in shape. It's pretty bad when the actor has to wear a long leather coat and put his hands in the pockets to pull it out so as to cover up the pot belly. He's starting to look like Elvis in his last years.

I made the mistake of buying this movie without checking reviews (I saw it in a dvd store). OH. MY. GOD. I have been a Segal fan from way back, but his movies are getting steadily worse. I was actually sort of impressed that someone funded The Stranger, lacking, as it did, any semblance of plot or interest. The direction was awful, the effects, the cinematography, the fight sequences, soundtrack, everything. This movie was worse.

Moments of slow motion--for no discernable reason, stilted dialogue, HORRIBLE acting, poor action sequences, etc. Heck, half the action scenes (why else would you be watching a Segal movie) are from an angle that lead me to believe it's not even Segal, but a stunt double. If you make the mistake of watching the movie, you'll really appreciate the plane sequence. Segal, wresting control from the pilot suddenly scares the pilot into talking by making several dives near the ground. This is supposed to scare a pilot? Not to mention the 'movement' outside the plane windows are patently fake.

I think it says it all when the movie is forced to use text during slow motion scenes to introduce people (who die offscreen). Segal pieces together the 'mystery' of the people he's looking for by the series of helpful clues--yes, the bad guys have left a trail leading him in the right direction via tatooing their henchmen on the arms. What the hell?!? Let's lead police or bad guys to the head honcho with TATOOS?!?

For the love of god, if you want an action film, DON'T watch this one. Go watch Under Siege 1 or 2. Or Hard to Kill. Avoid this wretched excuse for a movie. While you're at it, avoid the Stranger, too.

I want 1.5 hours of my life back and the IQ points I lost from watching this movie.

I rented this movie at blockbuster when I thought it would be good but it sucked. I mean i bought the foreigner and that sucked as well. This movie was barely advertised he just comes up with more and more crap to sell. His older movies rocked meanwhile, this movie sucked out loud!

I recently purchased Out For a Kill on DVD. I know it dose not come out on DVD until August 19, but someone on Half.com had it in early, so I bought it. Out for a Kill has the same director as the Foreigner. He did learn his lesson that you need more action in Steven movies! This movie starts off as Robert (seagal) as an archeologists who unearthed artifacts in China with his partner. He discovers that the Chinese mafia the "Tong" are using the artifacts to ship drugs in them. He tries to flee, but his partner got killed. The police arest him thinking he killed his partner. He escapes goes back to his house to his wife and tells her that everything is fine. The house blows up with her in there. He then goes OUT FOR A KILL!

Out For a Kill had much more action then the Foreigner, and is more interesting. I would have given this movie 5 stars, but there was something missing. The story is average. There is really nothing special. But the action does make up for it. Out For a Kill is rated "R" for Violence, Sexuality/Nudity, Language, and some drug content. I will say that the Foreigner did have one very good explosion, that this movie didnt. They needed to add one huge explosion. When the house explodes with his wife in it, it isn't very good. Combine explosions with this kind of action in this movie, you'll have pure Steven excitement! This is my final verdict:

Acting-8
Action-8
Fun-7
Story-7

Overall- 7

Other movies I would reccomend is Under Seige (1 and 2), Half Past Dead, and Hard to Kill.

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.

With one of the worst titles for any kind of movie in recent memory, this new Steven Seagal actioner limps its way onto DVD. Produced by those kind folks at Nu Image (who have continually amazed us with such direct-to-video nightmares as DERAILED, SPIDERS and OPERATION DELTA FORCE), this is the kind of movie that makes you want to stop watching films altogether.

The story has The Tall Guy playing renowned archeologist Robert Burns, who has unearthed precious artifacts in Eastern China. However, the chinese mafia are using these artifacts to smuggle drugs overseas and within seconds, Seagal is framed, has his assistant murdered and is sent to prison. MInutes (which seem like hours) unfold as Seagal is released by the US/Chinese police, using him as bait to lure the mafia into the open. As these things usually do, everything goes wrong for the police and Seagal's wife is killed in a fiery explosion, leaving him distraught, angry and (ahem) out for a kill.

With a plot that resembles a convoluted DEATH WISH sequel crossed with a dozen Hong Kong actioners, this movie fails to involve the viewer at any point. Seagal himself seems bored out of his mind, as he casually walks around seedy areas of town tracking down the men who killed his wife, getting up to the odd rough and tumble with every kung fu villain around who manages to look at him the wrong way. A fight sequence in a gent's hairdressers manages to be not only boring, but also mildly embarrassing as Seagal's opponent is obviously on wires and his movements defy any gravity at all, and the scene comes across looking awkward and pointless.

Director Michael Oblowitz (who collaborated on Seagal's last flick, a dreadful number called THE FOREIGNER) seems to have no flair for action whatsoever, insisting on long takes, dull characterisation, lazy pacing and making no effort to get the best out of his performers at all. His MTV-lite camera work is dull, and everyone in his movies seems to be acting as though they were in a Calvin Klein commercial. What with this, the aforementioned THE FOREIGNER and the awful vampire 'non' action flick THE BREED, Oblowitz needs to take an 'Action Movie 101' course. Quickly.

Adding another dud to his CV, Seagal seems to be intent on destroying any chance of a movie career that he reclaimed with the fun actioner EXIT WOUNDS, by appearing in films like this. What with this, the headache inducing HALF PAST DEAD and TICKER (where I thought there was nowhere lower for him to go), its sad to see a former action giant running around in non-events such as these. I can only hope he goes back to Warner Bros, and makes some decent action output again. Even his last effort there, the tired FIRE DOWN BELOW looks like a DIE HARD movie compared to his latter efforts.

Columbia-Tristars' disc is clean of any extras, except a trailer. The picture and audio quality are sharp, and the only picture problems arise from the film being shot in fake neon-lights and awful bare-bones locations.

All-in-all, not a winner. If you have to put yourself through it, make sure you have a copy of EXIT WOUNDS or OUT FOR JUSTICE ready to jam into your DVD player once this one is over. Remember him for the gems he used to make, not the ones he's cranking out now . . .

Steven Seagal drops yet another classic on the film world with 'Out For A Kill'.

Seagal stars as an overweight but super-sexy professor named Robert Burns. He's an expert in ancient Chinese relics and is in China doing some excavation and cataloging of newly found antiques. Unbeknownst to him, the people who hired him are using him to move drugs out of the country. Boy, did these wacky Chinese drugdealers pick the wrong professor to screw with. The Lord is arrested and sent to a Chinese prison, leaving his mailorder Russian bride all alone. He's in prison for an undisclosed amount of time, but due to the editing it seems like he was in lockdown for about twenty minutes. He is released through some stringpulling by the American government to use him as a pawn to lure out the drugdealers. Little do these dealers know, but Lord Steven was once the most feared theif in China. So, the dealers decide that Steven needs to be eliminated so they blow up his house. Only the Lord isn't inside but his Russian wife is. He gets pissed, swears revenge, and hilarity ensues.

'Out For A Kill' is pretty much pure crap. The plot is ridiculous and very vague. The fight scenes are pretty sad(especially when Seagal fights a small Chinaman who happens to know some sort of monkey kung fu). There are numerous useless characters: the black dude Seagal befriends in prison who the filmmakers lead you to believe will have something to do with the plot later on but actually is never heard from again. And also there are the two DEA agents who do nothing more than show up to find the bodies of Seagal's victims and say lame crap like "He moves like a ghost". I died at that one. He doesn't even come close to moving like a ghost. All he did was lumber his tubby ass out the door. Hilarity.

Anyways, 'Out For A Kill' sports a lame script, pathetic acting, sad fight scenes, absolutely putrid dialogue, and a vast sheen of vagueness. This one is for hardcore Seagal fans only and even they won't like it. Watching this movie is like getting fingerbanged by your grandfather: you may want to enjoy it, but its just uncomfortable.

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?