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CharlesJones said:I was surprised when Steven got caught by those bad guys towards the end & they had him tied up to a chair in some building they were in. That was my first time seeing Steven vulnerable but of course he got himself free & kicked those bad guys asses LOL. Sharon Stone & Pam Grier looked good in the movie of course. Pam has gotten fat recently.
Mason said:Great...its deffenetly one of his best.it has it all.. bonecrushing fightscenes & action.. & a great story :yin:
Serena said:Littledragon--Your new thread has been merged with Craig's pre-existing one. Each Steven Seagal movie has a review thread, located in the sub-forum "Movie Review" of the Movies forum.
Webmaster FU&D! said:This is Seagal's first movie and arguably one of the best. Seagal plays Nico Toscani, an ex-CIA operative working as a commandeering Chicago cop. As director Andy Davis put it on the film set one afternoon: "What we're really doing here with Steven is making a documentary." Indeed, the intro sequence shows old video clips of Seagal training to become an Aikido master and then segways nicely into his involvement in Vietnam.
As regular readers of my website know, I don't really do story, but I will gladly discuss the violence. We get the very first Seagal vs. The Whole Bar scene which is great. It is kind of a pivotal moment for all violent action movies. From this moment on, we viewers kinda demanded our tough guy to go into a bar and kick some major ass. There's another good scene where he finishes off three guys using their machete and baseball bat, cutting off one guy's hand in the process.
There's also a fantastic scene on a city street where Nico, after disarming four guys, tells them to stand in a line. One guy talks back, claiming that Nico won't be able to drop all of them. What does Seagal do? He shoots the guy in the chest and says: "You're right, but I'll get an A for effort." Absolutely brilliant! Cold-blooded murder by a guy with a detective's badge around his neck. That's our Seagal! There also a good fight scene in a convenience story which has kinda become another Seagal trademark. So much so that the Great One recently spoofed himself in a Mountain Dew commercial!
The end of the movie is a bit of a disappointment however, with the main bad guy simply getting his neck broken. However, the movie has a unique feel and depth to it, so I award it three out of four Colt 1911 handguns.
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