I'm sat watching Out For a Kill as we speak and Steven is so much better than this film, the director and editors really made a mess of what could have been a great bone-crushing epic. Here's just a few of the bits that make me cringe and yearn for Seagal making films with better directors like he did with Belly of the Beast:
- The film is all over the place, so much you get confused as to where you are and why
- Steven's voice is horribly dubbed by an imposter is many scenes
- Some sentences cut off mid-sentence - "I'd like to thank my loving wife Mia and my ment-- Professor Liu De San."
- Some bits including the above sentence are horrifyingly sync-ed
- The fight scene with the wire-fu is horrendous
- Red writing constantly bleeps across the screen every few minutes, and why do we need to know the time of every scene?
- The black guy in the prison is about to be established and then is abruptly cut out when he starts talking aout why he's there!
- The whole tattoo scene was daft and pointless
- Some of the dialogue ("Quiet like a mouse, then take he to the house") is horrific
- The titles, especially the Out For a Kill title itself, look as though they were made by a college student fooling around
- The Beetlejuice-esque models which open the film in the desert
- The entire plane scene with Seagal as pilot is just plain bad and doesn't serve any real purpose
- The lazy blue-screen background as the two cops look into the sky at the airport
- The re-using of Seagal's Chinese dialogue twice in the final scene
- Not enough American actors to make it feel like a real film (same problem with The Foreigner was too many ...well foreigners)
- Steven's terrible stunt double, he's particularly obvious in the fight before the showdown right after Steven gouge's the second guy's eyes
- One of the worst car chases ever, totally spoiled by Oblowitz' rapid fire cutting which cuts back to scenes which don't even have anything to do with the chase!
- Bad acting from most of the villains, especially the main one
- The horrible special effect when Seagal's house is blown up
I could go on, don't get me wrong I love the film anyway just because it's a Seagal film but it pains me to see a talented action hero like Seagal in a film so badly made. I for one pray the rumour he is making another with Oblowitz are untrue. Luckily Belly of the Beast was a definite step in the right direction, avoiding most of the above movie mistakes.
Steve
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- The film is all over the place, so much you get confused as to where you are and why
- Steven's voice is horribly dubbed by an imposter is many scenes
- Some sentences cut off mid-sentence - "I'd like to thank my loving wife Mia and my ment-- Professor Liu De San."
- Some bits including the above sentence are horrifyingly sync-ed
- The fight scene with the wire-fu is horrendous
- Red writing constantly bleeps across the screen every few minutes, and why do we need to know the time of every scene?
- The black guy in the prison is about to be established and then is abruptly cut out when he starts talking aout why he's there!
- The whole tattoo scene was daft and pointless
- Some of the dialogue ("Quiet like a mouse, then take he to the house") is horrific
- The titles, especially the Out For a Kill title itself, look as though they were made by a college student fooling around
- The Beetlejuice-esque models which open the film in the desert
- The entire plane scene with Seagal as pilot is just plain bad and doesn't serve any real purpose
- The lazy blue-screen background as the two cops look into the sky at the airport
- The re-using of Seagal's Chinese dialogue twice in the final scene
- Not enough American actors to make it feel like a real film (same problem with The Foreigner was too many ...well foreigners)
- Steven's terrible stunt double, he's particularly obvious in the fight before the showdown right after Steven gouge's the second guy's eyes
- One of the worst car chases ever, totally spoiled by Oblowitz' rapid fire cutting which cuts back to scenes which don't even have anything to do with the chase!
- Bad acting from most of the villains, especially the main one
- The horrible special effect when Seagal's house is blown up
I could go on, don't get me wrong I love the film anyway just because it's a Seagal film but it pains me to see a talented action hero like Seagal in a film so badly made. I for one pray the rumour he is making another with Oblowitz are untrue. Luckily Belly of the Beast was a definite step in the right direction, avoiding most of the above movie mistakes.
Steve
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