Please post your Born To Raise Hell reviews in this thread.
Craig Robertson;205082 said:Well this movie is practically the same as the rest of his DTV releases. While no where near as bad as the likes of Out Of Reach it is still nowhere near the quality required for a cinema release.
Dubbing throughout the movie does not help. A movie where Steven Seagal is producer and even writes the story to have dubbing is dreadful and lazy.
Action was decent, some brutal stuff. He even uses some of the police techniques that we see used in Lawman.
Director did a decent job for his first attempt.
Kotegashi;205087 said:Average movie at best. The first twenty minutes the movie is all over the place and very confusing. After that it becomes pretty straight forward.
Fights are pretty good and brutal. Unfortunately every over the shoulder shot is a double and every time you hear Seagal 'talk' but he is off screen it is a voice double. Although the voice double did his best it is very obvious.
Overall I'd give it an 7.5 for a DTV movie, but as for cinema quality we would end up with an 4.5 out of 10.
And please, let somebody tell Seagal he should really, really stop with romantic/love scenes. They are killing, hilarious and way to sad. He makes a complete a** of himself with these scenes.
PEace
Clement3000;205092 said:
BEST PART OF THE MOVIE: The fight scenes! by far the best fight scenes in any of Seagal's direct to video movies! His hands are still extremely fast, the fight scenes are brutal, with very little doubles noticeable!
See some screen shots of the movie attached
Dragon1978;205121 said:not his best DTV but certainly not the worst! very shaky camera work like its been shot with a handheld, too many close ups in every type of scene from shootouts to fights,camera was very close making viewing the action clautrophobic. shootouts were noisy and messy almost random.decent enough fights though.overall not as good as the keeper,driven to kill,dangerous man,pistol whipped and renegade justice but better than the other DTV films he has made.
photomouse14;205129 said:WHen will it be in the US?
outforamovie;205125 said:I havent seen the film yet, but the fight scenes look EPIC! I wish theyd stop with the whole 'awkward sex scene with a girl half of Steven's age' thing...It is NOT good
SeagalMovieFan;205143 said:I also haven't seen the movie yet, but after seeing fights, I am disappointed. I expected much better fights, but I must say that it's definitely not as good as you have said. The editing is again really crazy and confusing. Plus we very often see only bottom or upper part of fighter's body = we don't know if it is Steven or not. I believe Lauro Chartrand that Steven really did 90% of the fighting stuff. Nevertheless, I really don't like the angles of the camera ant the position of it. In my opinion, the director of photography f***ed that all again. The camera is very often too close...
I wish they had made it in the old school style, just as Pistol Whipped could have been. Is that too difficult to set the camera far enough, so that the viewers can see both fighters normally?
In addition, if it is true, that the story is crappy, plus bad actors in supporting roles, poor location ... I don't wanna buy this flick. 4 minutes of average Seagal fights don't satisfy me.
If only Steven returned to the roots, tried to lose some pounds (I hope the stay on set in Vancouver has helped him), used the production from Pistol Whipped and did movies in that style. I wouldn't mind having only one Seagal movie per year, if it was a solid one even for a cinema release. Unfortunately this kind of films is just a way to the end.
rastafari;205145 said:4 minutes of average Seagal fights don't satisfy me
im sorry but those fights are good fight scenes for a DTV film and you can tell its seagal for most of it
if you wanna watch a poorly edited fight scene look at machete which for me had seagals worst fight for a while and yet that film cost 25M
SeagalMovieFan;205151 said:I am sorry, but after the interview with Mr. Chartrand my hopes were much higher. Don't tell me that this kind of fights is just it what you wanna see. Look at Pistol Whipped, there were cool fights. In Btrh they just look strange to me and I am quite sad about that.
rastafari;205152 said:Also it seems JCVD is on the comeback trail has he is gonna star in a new joel silver film