Last Seagal movie you watched?

[derekwyo]

Decided to rewatch 2006's Shadow Man for the umpteenth time. Another one that changed A LOT from inception to delivery, from something unique and maybe more in line with the tone/pacing of The Patriot (?) but ultimately dialed back to another super-layered, multi-Govt incompetence, kinda-Spy Actioner. I actually find myself liking Shadow Man more as the years go by. I like the opening scene of him teaching in the dojo (even if he's a tad cruel to one student) where it's clear he's a natural teacher and in his element here. The drug house fight is good for the era, and I still crack up in the drug house scene when he says, "Can you fill a prescription?" and "That's syphilis!" And Eva Pope pulls her weight respectably, sometimes the female co-stars are more about being picturesque than a performer, and I felt Eva pulled both off well.
I'd place Shadow Man somewhere in the middle of his DTV era efforts.

 

[derekwyo]

Last year, a director's cut was announced to be releasing and was even put up for preorder over at: https://yippeekiyaymothervideo.com/products/enter-the-pyuniverse but it's since been pulled. Maybe they'll decide to go forward with it again sometime. They have the rights to distribute Albert Pyun's works since his death I read in an interview.

Good news, I wrote them and they said the Ticker release is still moving forward. But since it's a small, in house release they got sidetracked doing another of Pyun's films, but Ticker is still on the menu.

 

[JohnAlexander]

Watched The Onion Movie the other day. Dunno if that counts as a Seagal movie. But you know what? It was funny. It made me laugh a few times. And I really enjoyed Steven's cameo as THE COCKPUNCHER.

 

[derekwyo]

Watched The Onion Movie the other day. Dunno if that counts as a Seagal movie. But you know what? It was funny. It made me laugh a few times. And I really enjoyed Steven's cameo as THE COCKPUNCHER.

"I don't think you have the balls."

Oh, it's absolutely a Seagal movie. lol I hope and pray that Seagal will star in a full-length feature Cockpuncher film. He could play the aged, wise, Cockpuncher who must now train a new protege to punch cocks with extreme prejudice.

 

[Zargo]

I re-watched "Black Dawn" last night. It was okay. Interestingly, Vern gives it a good review and states that he feels Seagal is well-invested in the movie. I felt similarly upon watching, but that doesn't quite tie-in with the director's comments on working with him, which sounds a similar story to Submerged.
On wikipedia/ IMDB it "informs" that Steven left the production after 18 of the 30 day shoot, which is why he's absent for a lot of the action but I'm not sure if that is true, as the director didn't mention that. He only said Steven refused to do fights.

The main difference between this and Submerged however is that clearly Seagal was around and willing to do his ADR recording, so that doesn't really support the his leaving early theory.

Clearly he had a very variable work ethic during this era, moving quickly from project to project with a giant diva attitude, being able to get away with anything as just his name and mug on the DVD cover was enough to shift massive units.

 

[derekwyo]

I re-watched "Black Dawn" last night. It was okay. Interestingly, Vern gives it a good review and states that he feels Seagal is well-invested in the movie. I felt similarly upon watching, but that doesn't quite tie-in with the director's comments on working with him, which sounds a similar story to Submerged.
On wikipedia/ IMDB it "informs" that Steven left the production after 18 of the 30 day shoot, which is why he's absent for a lot of the action but I'm not sure if that is true, as the director didn't mention that. He only said Steven refused to do fights.

The main difference between this and Submerged however is that clearly Seagal was around and willing to do his ADR recording, so that doesn't really support the his leaving early theory.

Clearly he had a very variable work ethic during this era, moving quickly from project to project with a giant diva attitude, being able to get away with anything as just his name and mug on the DVD cover was enough to shift massive units.

I like Black Dawn, and though I wish Seagal did do a couple fights (or something physical like that), I did think he was more invested in acting here and did alright. It's a surprisingly watchable movie that I enjoy.

 

[Zargo]

Yeah, I agree, despite my luke-warm "okay" assessment of it. That's why I was surprised by how much of a "nightmare" he apparently was.

Incidentally, does anyone know if the "Today you die" Italian blu ray is any good? I don't have it on DVD and it doesn't seem to be easy to find for streaming either.