Review : Shadow Man
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"positive" review from DVDActive.com
i haven't gotten Shadow Man yet, but they had a review on DVDActive.com that was fairly good.
http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/shadow-man.html
Back in the nineties, Steven Seagal was one of those action stars who, alongside the likes of Van Damme and Snipes, churned out bone-breaking, no-nonsense brainless popcorn flicks. It was the tail end of Schwarzenegger’s reign and audiences were ripe and ready for a new style of actions star: the martial arts action star. They provided all of the brute force of classic Arnie movies, only with an added edge. I think that audiences have come to expect more from films these days, much more—why have just a fists-flying action movie when you can have a dark spy thriller martial arts action adventure like The Bourne Supremacy? The era of the no-nonsense action film is almost dead. True fans of this kind of product have to scour the dregs of direct-to-video hell in order to find the odd hidden gem, because that’s where the likes of Van Damme, Snipes and Seagal now reside. Once in a while, however, you don’t quite strike gold, but you come across something that reminds you of the good old days. A good old decent bone-crunching action flick starring one of the old crew.
Feature
It’s the anniversary of his wife’s death and Jack Foster is taking his daughter back to Romania, the birthplace of her mother. He’s an ex-CIA operative, with expertise in surveillance, weaponry and martial arts—amongst other things—but right now he’s just a dad who wants to take care of his daughter. When they arrive at the airport, however, she is kidnapped right in front of his eyes. Of course, all of Jack’s old training and knowledge kicks back in and he goes into action looking for her, but as he tricks, shoots and kicks his way through the city streets he uncovers a plot much more complicated than he anticipated.
It turns out that he is apparently the courier for a package which governments from across the globe, along with a fair amount of more shady individuals, want to get their hands on. The only trouble is, Jack is totally unaware of the package—he doesn’t even know for sure that he was ever carrying it. Still, he needs to find out where it is in order to bargain with the people who have his daughter, although you know that when the deal comes to the table, all hell is going to break loose.
Shadow Man is a no-nonsense martial arts action movie. It piles along at a reasonable pace, keeping you involved with the skimpiest of plotlines as it moves from one action set-piece to another. The story is almost insignificant but, at the same time, is coherent enough not to be an obstacle to your enjoyment of the action. It provides the motivation for the central character, excuses him almost all his physically aggressive behaviour, and helps the movie roll along to its climactic conclusion.
Of course, it is a piece of DTV trash, but a nicely put together one which will have fans of this these old school kick-ass heroes thoroughly entertained and fondly recalling their favourite scenes from those golden days, which may not be that far gone. It is the kind of DTV movie which, if given a bigger budget and a bit more cleaning up at the editing stage, would have made the cinemas in the nineties and brought in a tidy profit.
After all, Steven Seagal movies were once a good gamble for production companies. His movies did not cost a great deal but proved to be popular and all he had to do was work his magic. What magic, I hear you ask? He’s just an overweight old man with acting skills that would make Roger Moore look positively thespian. Well Steven Seagal is one of the most proficient and experienced martial artists in the world. Seduced by the graceful art of Aikido, he moved to Japan at an early age to study it properly. He became an expert, not only in the martial art, but in the Japanese language and culture, and then went on to become the first western martial artist to set up a dojo in Japan.
He returned to America to spread this knowledge and was picked up by Hollywood producers who saw a cash cow that they could milk for all it was worth. But Seagal did not want to play the Hollywood game. At the peak of his career, on the back of an immense and unexpected success in the b-movie variation on Die Hard, Under Siege, Seagal was given carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. And what he chose to do was direct and star in a martial arts action adventure with an environmental message. On Deadly Ground was a terrible flop. Aptly directed and packed with explosive action, it contained so many heavy-handed messages of ecological and social significance that it scared audiences back into their caves. After all, why make an action movie and then attempt to preach to the audience about issues that are of global importance. We didn’t come to see that, they cried out, we came to see Seagal kick ass.
I thought it was a stupid, but brave move. Seagal took a gamble at trying to reach a new audience—the kind of people who would perhaps not be touched by the messages given in more art-house offerings. He made a terrible mistake, failing miserably in his attempt to play Hollywood at its own game. After shocking revelations of mafia threats to him and his family, extortion and oppression, you can kind of understand how his career—and perhaps even his self-esteem—took a complete nosedive. He ended up in DTV hell, where he has resided now for over half a decade. Churning out several movies a year, his efforts have been generally abysmal. Not only were they low-budget, poorly-scripted, badly-acted efforts, but they did not have the one essential ingredient required for a watchable Seagal movie: Seagal himself. His fights were doubled, his voice was doubled, and he was even doubled for shots of walking down the street or getting into cars. Recently he made a movie where he didn’t even appear in the movie for the first twelve minutes.
I have been faithfully watching this rubbish, desperately clinging to the ever-decreasing number of action scenes and few one-liners that populate his movies, in the hope that one day things would change. It is not much to ask Seagal to actually be in his own movie—after all, he is the only reason people would see one of his movies. I prayed that he would stay on set for the duration, do the ADR himself so that it was always his voice and—most importantly–do the fight scenes himself. What is the point of a Steven Seagal martial arts action movie where he doesn’t even do the martial arts himself?
Shadow Man is almost unique amongst his DTV efforts. Today You Die saw him body doubled for entire fight sequences but hardly voice doubled, Out of Reach saw him on set for most of time but voice doubled (by the actor who played the bad guy of all people) and Mercenary for Justice had him fighting and talking himself, but hardly actually in the movie. Shadow Man has him on-screen for most of the movie, doing ninety-five percent of his own lines and providing us with about half a dozen fight scenes which he does himself.
Possibly the best aspect of this for the fans is the fighting, and they will be pleased to hear that the fights are (whilst not great), highly watchable and extremely reminiscent of his early good stuff. The opening scene where he shows off some techniques in a dojo harks back to Above the Law, the ‘ Macguyver sequence’ where he fashions a shotgun out of piping and booby-traps a room is a nod to his classic Under Siege efforts, and the fight scene in the drug dealer’s house is a superb Seagal brawl (pick any of his first six movies), where he kicks, throws, and breaks necks just like in the good old days. He does his trademark single-shot-to-the-head several times with a handgun, clothes-lines a policeman and closes out the movie with some eye-gouging (a la Marked for Death).
In fact the only fight double I noticed was during the shadow-fight credits sequence, something which can be easily overlooked. The big man doesn’t exactly look in shape, but he’s enthusiastic, aggressive and still pretty damn fast. He even has a couple of decent one-liners in a movie with a story that is not exactly clever, but is at least coherent (well, strong enough to tide you by as it leaps from action scene to action scene). Realistically, it is the best we have had from Seagal in a long, long time and, with a little polishing and a better story fans might even have some hope of getting another decent Under Siege sequel before he retires. Personally, I have heard big things about his upcoming directorial action vehicle, Prince of Pistols, and if Shadow Man is anything to go by I think that this could be the start of a much needed comeback.
Video
Shadow Man is presented in a fairly decent 1.85:1 aspect ratio anamorphically enhanced widescreen transfer. Detail is reasonably good throughout, with good clarity and negligible softness. Grain is also kept to a minimum and there are no significant signs of edge enhancement. The colour scheme is quite broad and well represented, despite the restrictions of the locations. Blacks are solid, the transfer exhibits no signs of any print defects, and overall it is a perfectly good representation of this DTV movie.
Audio
We get a reasonably boisterous Dolby Digital 5.1 track to accompany the movie, which has got one of the best scores to have adorned a Seagal effort since the turn of the Millennium. The score plays out throughout, giving the surrounds the most action, but we also get plenty of effects (in the way of bones breaking, gunshots and explosions) to keep them busy as well. Dialogue is clear and coherent (even Seagal’s mumbling), coming predominantly from the frontal array.
Extras
In the way of extras, all we get are trailers for some other releases. First up, the Seagal efforts: Black Dawn is a DTV sequel to another one of his DTV movies (which is a particularly bad sign) and it is worth avoiding, as well as his DTV effort Submerged, which is reasonably entertaining, probably thanks to the fact that it co-stars Vinnie Jones. There are a couple of DTV Wesley Snipes movies: The Marksman, which is pretty mundane and doesn’t even feature any martial arts and The Detonator, where he at least looks a little more enthusiastic. Second in Command is Jean Claude Van Damme’s latest DTV vehicle and it’s actually quite good. Van Damme seems to have succeeded where others have failed in this market, having made the thoroughly enjoyable Wake of Death and now this military actioner where he has a couple of fab fights. The final DTV trailer is for the Cuba Gooding Jr. action vehicle Endgame in the style of In the Line of Fire and co-starring the great James Woods. We also get trailers for the dramatic Samuel L. Jackson thriller Freedomland, the disappointing video-game tie-in Silent Hill, the excellent modern-day western starring Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Boondocks.
Overall
Shadow Man is a decent DTV action vehicle for ageing martial arts master Steven Seagal. For those with any kind of taste in quality movies, it will be just as disappointing as you would expect from an above-average DTV film, but for fans of Seagal, it marks a considerably better effort than they have been used to over the last few years. The video and audio presentation are decent and the disc is devoid of extras (as you would expect) but that should not stop anybody interested in seeing a slight return to form from the Aikido master and being reminded of his glory days.
i haven't gotten Shadow Man yet, but they had a review on DVDActive.com that was fairly good.
http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/shadow-man.html
Back in the nineties, Steven Seagal was one of those action stars who, alongside the likes of Van Damme and Snipes, churned out bone-breaking, no-nonsense brainless popcorn flicks. It was the tail end of Schwarzenegger’s reign and audiences were ripe and ready for a new style of actions star: the martial arts action star. They provided all of the brute force of classic Arnie movies, only with an added edge. I think that audiences have come to expect more from films these days, much more—why have just a fists-flying action movie when you can have a dark spy thriller martial arts action adventure like The Bourne Supremacy? The era of the no-nonsense action film is almost dead. True fans of this kind of product have to scour the dregs of direct-to-video hell in order to find the odd hidden gem, because that’s where the likes of Van Damme, Snipes and Seagal now reside. Once in a while, however, you don’t quite strike gold, but you come across something that reminds you of the good old days. A good old decent bone-crunching action flick starring one of the old crew.
Feature
It’s the anniversary of his wife’s death and Jack Foster is taking his daughter back to Romania, the birthplace of her mother. He’s an ex-CIA operative, with expertise in surveillance, weaponry and martial arts—amongst other things—but right now he’s just a dad who wants to take care of his daughter. When they arrive at the airport, however, she is kidnapped right in front of his eyes. Of course, all of Jack’s old training and knowledge kicks back in and he goes into action looking for her, but as he tricks, shoots and kicks his way through the city streets he uncovers a plot much more complicated than he anticipated.
It turns out that he is apparently the courier for a package which governments from across the globe, along with a fair amount of more shady individuals, want to get their hands on. The only trouble is, Jack is totally unaware of the package—he doesn’t even know for sure that he was ever carrying it. Still, he needs to find out where it is in order to bargain with the people who have his daughter, although you know that when the deal comes to the table, all hell is going to break loose.
Shadow Man is a no-nonsense martial arts action movie. It piles along at a reasonable pace, keeping you involved with the skimpiest of plotlines as it moves from one action set-piece to another. The story is almost insignificant but, at the same time, is coherent enough not to be an obstacle to your enjoyment of the action. It provides the motivation for the central character, excuses him almost all his physically aggressive behaviour, and helps the movie roll along to its climactic conclusion.
Of course, it is a piece of DTV trash, but a nicely put together one which will have fans of this these old school kick-ass heroes thoroughly entertained and fondly recalling their favourite scenes from those golden days, which may not be that far gone. It is the kind of DTV movie which, if given a bigger budget and a bit more cleaning up at the editing stage, would have made the cinemas in the nineties and brought in a tidy profit.
After all, Steven Seagal movies were once a good gamble for production companies. His movies did not cost a great deal but proved to be popular and all he had to do was work his magic. What magic, I hear you ask? He’s just an overweight old man with acting skills that would make Roger Moore look positively thespian. Well Steven Seagal is one of the most proficient and experienced martial artists in the world. Seduced by the graceful art of Aikido, he moved to Japan at an early age to study it properly. He became an expert, not only in the martial art, but in the Japanese language and culture, and then went on to become the first western martial artist to set up a dojo in Japan.
He returned to America to spread this knowledge and was picked up by Hollywood producers who saw a cash cow that they could milk for all it was worth. But Seagal did not want to play the Hollywood game. At the peak of his career, on the back of an immense and unexpected success in the b-movie variation on Die Hard, Under Siege, Seagal was given carte blanche to do whatever he wanted. And what he chose to do was direct and star in a martial arts action adventure with an environmental message. On Deadly Ground was a terrible flop. Aptly directed and packed with explosive action, it contained so many heavy-handed messages of ecological and social significance that it scared audiences back into their caves. After all, why make an action movie and then attempt to preach to the audience about issues that are of global importance. We didn’t come to see that, they cried out, we came to see Seagal kick ass.
I thought it was a stupid, but brave move. Seagal took a gamble at trying to reach a new audience—the kind of people who would perhaps not be touched by the messages given in more art-house offerings. He made a terrible mistake, failing miserably in his attempt to play Hollywood at its own game. After shocking revelations of mafia threats to him and his family, extortion and oppression, you can kind of understand how his career—and perhaps even his self-esteem—took a complete nosedive. He ended up in DTV hell, where he has resided now for over half a decade. Churning out several movies a year, his efforts have been generally abysmal. Not only were they low-budget, poorly-scripted, badly-acted efforts, but they did not have the one essential ingredient required for a watchable Seagal movie: Seagal himself. His fights were doubled, his voice was doubled, and he was even doubled for shots of walking down the street or getting into cars. Recently he made a movie where he didn’t even appear in the movie for the first twelve minutes.
I have been faithfully watching this rubbish, desperately clinging to the ever-decreasing number of action scenes and few one-liners that populate his movies, in the hope that one day things would change. It is not much to ask Seagal to actually be in his own movie—after all, he is the only reason people would see one of his movies. I prayed that he would stay on set for the duration, do the ADR himself so that it was always his voice and—most importantly–do the fight scenes himself. What is the point of a Steven Seagal martial arts action movie where he doesn’t even do the martial arts himself?
Shadow Man is almost unique amongst his DTV efforts. Today You Die saw him body doubled for entire fight sequences but hardly voice doubled, Out of Reach saw him on set for most of time but voice doubled (by the actor who played the bad guy of all people) and Mercenary for Justice had him fighting and talking himself, but hardly actually in the movie. Shadow Man has him on-screen for most of the movie, doing ninety-five percent of his own lines and providing us with about half a dozen fight scenes which he does himself.
Possibly the best aspect of this for the fans is the fighting, and they will be pleased to hear that the fights are (whilst not great), highly watchable and extremely reminiscent of his early good stuff. The opening scene where he shows off some techniques in a dojo harks back to Above the Law, the ‘ Macguyver sequence’ where he fashions a shotgun out of piping and booby-traps a room is a nod to his classic Under Siege efforts, and the fight scene in the drug dealer’s house is a superb Seagal brawl (pick any of his first six movies), where he kicks, throws, and breaks necks just like in the good old days. He does his trademark single-shot-to-the-head several times with a handgun, clothes-lines a policeman and closes out the movie with some eye-gouging (a la Marked for Death).
In fact the only fight double I noticed was during the shadow-fight credits sequence, something which can be easily overlooked. The big man doesn’t exactly look in shape, but he’s enthusiastic, aggressive and still pretty damn fast. He even has a couple of decent one-liners in a movie with a story that is not exactly clever, but is at least coherent (well, strong enough to tide you by as it leaps from action scene to action scene). Realistically, it is the best we have had from Seagal in a long, long time and, with a little polishing and a better story fans might even have some hope of getting another decent Under Siege sequel before he retires. Personally, I have heard big things about his upcoming directorial action vehicle, Prince of Pistols, and if Shadow Man is anything to go by I think that this could be the start of a much needed comeback.
Video
Shadow Man is presented in a fairly decent 1.85:1 aspect ratio anamorphically enhanced widescreen transfer. Detail is reasonably good throughout, with good clarity and negligible softness. Grain is also kept to a minimum and there are no significant signs of edge enhancement. The colour scheme is quite broad and well represented, despite the restrictions of the locations. Blacks are solid, the transfer exhibits no signs of any print defects, and overall it is a perfectly good representation of this DTV movie.
Audio
We get a reasonably boisterous Dolby Digital 5.1 track to accompany the movie, which has got one of the best scores to have adorned a Seagal effort since the turn of the Millennium. The score plays out throughout, giving the surrounds the most action, but we also get plenty of effects (in the way of bones breaking, gunshots and explosions) to keep them busy as well. Dialogue is clear and coherent (even Seagal’s mumbling), coming predominantly from the frontal array.
Extras
In the way of extras, all we get are trailers for some other releases. First up, the Seagal efforts: Black Dawn is a DTV sequel to another one of his DTV movies (which is a particularly bad sign) and it is worth avoiding, as well as his DTV effort Submerged, which is reasonably entertaining, probably thanks to the fact that it co-stars Vinnie Jones. There are a couple of DTV Wesley Snipes movies: The Marksman, which is pretty mundane and doesn’t even feature any martial arts and The Detonator, where he at least looks a little more enthusiastic. Second in Command is Jean Claude Van Damme’s latest DTV vehicle and it’s actually quite good. Van Damme seems to have succeeded where others have failed in this market, having made the thoroughly enjoyable Wake of Death and now this military actioner where he has a couple of fab fights. The final DTV trailer is for the Cuba Gooding Jr. action vehicle Endgame in the style of In the Line of Fire and co-starring the great James Woods. We also get trailers for the dramatic Samuel L. Jackson thriller Freedomland, the disappointing video-game tie-in Silent Hill, the excellent modern-day western starring Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and The Boondocks.
Overall
Shadow Man is a decent DTV action vehicle for ageing martial arts master Steven Seagal. For those with any kind of taste in quality movies, it will be just as disappointing as you would expect from an above-average DTV film, but for fans of Seagal, it marks a considerably better effort than they have been used to over the last few years. The video and audio presentation are decent and the disc is devoid of extras (as you would expect) but that should not stop anybody interested in seeing a slight return to form from the Aikido master and being reminded of his glory days.
KROM
Active Member
If you live in Bucharest like me you wont belive how bad this movie is edited, the worst non sense edit in a Seagal movie i ever seen.
The locations are so different from scene to scene...very unrealistic, the US ambasy building is the same with the National Library from the end of the movie...and well the script and action is mindless
After he'll finished his concerts maybe he will start finaly to make a decent movie..
The locations are so different from scene to scene...very unrealistic, the US ambasy building is the same with the National Library from the end of the movie...and well the script and action is mindless
After he'll finished his concerts maybe he will start finaly to make a decent movie..
take-sensei
Die Hard Seagal fan!
Hey Suzi, did you've seen Shadow Man already???
It was a cool movie huh
greets take-sensei
It was a cool movie huh
greets take-sensei
lee nicholson
Well-Known Member
I'm not saying that SEAGAL didn't do any of the moves in the opening fight in SHADOW MAN, but you can tell they've added a 'double' in certain shots.
gunslinger
Member
I got my copy of Shadow Man the other day, but didn't have the chance to watch it til now. I won't go into story specifics as everyone already knows what this film is about, so I'll just review the key points.
THE GOOD
Seagal gives a solid performance and seems happy to be involved.
The fight sequences are good, with minimal doubling.
The shoot outs are suitably bloody and effective
The story made sense and had logic, something missing from recent Seagal flicks.
The climax in the library was cool.
THE BAD
The European locales are getting boring and have been seen in other Romanian flicks (7 Seconds, The Detonator)
Although the film looks better than the Oblowitz/Leong efforts, some of the direction is film student-ish
The car chase is the most BORING ever filmed
The minor dubbing again. In this film they could have cut it out and it wouldn't have mattered, which makes one wonder why they put it in in the first place
Overall, this film is much better than TYD, Black Dawn, Submerged, Out of Reach and MFJ, but it never reaches the highs of Into the Sun.
out of
THE GOOD
Seagal gives a solid performance and seems happy to be involved.
The fight sequences are good, with minimal doubling.
The shoot outs are suitably bloody and effective
The story made sense and had logic, something missing from recent Seagal flicks.
The climax in the library was cool.
THE BAD
The European locales are getting boring and have been seen in other Romanian flicks (7 Seconds, The Detonator)
Although the film looks better than the Oblowitz/Leong efforts, some of the direction is film student-ish
The car chase is the most BORING ever filmed
The minor dubbing again. In this film they could have cut it out and it wouldn't have mattered, which makes one wonder why they put it in in the first place
Overall, this film is much better than TYD, Black Dawn, Submerged, Out of Reach and MFJ, but it never reaches the highs of Into the Sun.
out of 
slawek_wozniak
Member
I've got a DVD of Shadowman today (it was very hard to get it in my country). I will review tomorrow.
latinojazz
Well-Known Member
The movie is good enough, I dislike the doubles, the little dubbing and I´m really tired and fed up of the Romanian locations, but there are a lot of good things in the movie.
The final is awesome, the mexican trap!!!...how he take to pieces the gun and...I didn´t say anymore
If I´m in the mood I will post a review, but I always tired to analize his movies in that way.
It´s as well as MFJ, better in any things, worst in the locations and another things.
I love the chosen wardrobe, his skills, the Grand Master concept(Internal-External), and the quality of the DVD video/audio is very good, except the dubbing.
But there´s no making of extras.It´s a simple one disc movie.But for me it really worth buy, as Mercenary For Justice.
Both are good DTV action movies.I´m happy enough
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The final is awesome, the mexican trap!!!...how he take to pieces the gun and...I didn´t say anymore
If I´m in the mood I will post a review, but I always tired to analize his movies in that way.
It´s as well as MFJ, better in any things, worst in the locations and another things.
I love the chosen wardrobe, his skills, the Grand Master concept(Internal-External), and the quality of the DVD video/audio is very good, except the dubbing.
But there´s no making of extras.It´s a simple one disc movie.But for me it really worth buy, as Mercenary For Justice.
Both are good DTV action movies.I´m happy enough
Love the fans who buy or rent original legal copies:
SHADOW MAN:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...1659346-5332007?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130
There are 48 Shadow Man copies used & new from $10.99!!!
MERCENARY FOR JUSTICE:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...6-5332007?_encoding=UTF8&s=dvd&v=glance&n=130
There 114 used & new from $10.47!!!
It´s well worth both to buy!!!!
bigchrisou812
Biggest fan ever!!
b.c.'s review of "Shadow Man"
the biggest problem i had w/ shadow man is, way way way way tooo much f'n back story crap, i could have done w/o the whole virus thing, hell i taught i had to go back to college and get my degree to comprehend this gargen! It seems that everybody that carried a gun in this movie had been givin a .45mm, and i thnk some segal is trying to compinsate for the lack of something. The best use of a .45mm is from segal, a soviet transport chopper fully loaded, is using a ak-47 to shoot segal, whos' in a mercades taxi, now the ak-47 bullets hit but can not disable the taxi, but when segal gets outhe uses his trusty .45mm and starts shooting and like a megaton-bomb BOOM, down goes the chopper in a fire ball, now i know segal is good, but come on a .45mm will not blow up a military chopper, no way no how. Now for the good points here is the quote of the centry in this movie,"I think your confussed. Your not like them, I'm alittle like them, but, much, much WORSE!" and the old bit_h w/ the fully auto gun, damn awsome.and was that bob dole, cutto news break "Live from some country in europe, film action star Steven Segal has walked in to an U.S.embassy libary, with an accompliss and started shooting at secret service agents' one who fell frome the secondfloor andtheother shoot in the face, twice, thenn he moved in on senator bob dole, who after being kicked in the junk, was then shot five times in the chest at point blank range. Then witnesses say that they saw segal and his accompliss ran out of the libary with a little girl, probly kidnapped. We'll keep you posted as developments happen." but in the first half an hour segal had dismantled about ten men and a hugh gun fight. Now no matter what they say this Is alot better then merc. for justice. so ha."This just in the bodies of russian ex-K.G.B. agents have been found, and heres a kind of an eye witness" HE TOOK MY EYES, THAT SON-OF-A-BIT_H IF I FIND HIM HE'S DEAD" "Well there you have it." i guess that they forgot to leave hub caps for all the cars in the budget. Now it is good to see some of the coats that helped make segal famous, like the tan 3/4 trench from fire down below, and the blk. trench like in to day u die. that's cool. and the amount of breasts areso much you'd let your kids watch only after they have gotten married, thats how many there are. and thats cool. But this doesn't make up for the weakest boss fight since the movie "Best of the best 2". in a 1 to 10 rating 10 being great i would give this newrelease a 6 1/2. good but not that good, itmust havebeen all that cheese, oh i mean chi, whatever
the biggest problem i had w/ shadow man is, way way way way tooo much f'n back story crap, i could have done w/o the whole virus thing, hell i taught i had to go back to college and get my degree to comprehend this gargen! It seems that everybody that carried a gun in this movie had been givin a .45mm, and i thnk some segal is trying to compinsate for the lack of something. The best use of a .45mm is from segal, a soviet transport chopper fully loaded, is using a ak-47 to shoot segal, whos' in a mercades taxi, now the ak-47 bullets hit but can not disable the taxi, but when segal gets outhe uses his trusty .45mm and starts shooting and like a megaton-bomb BOOM, down goes the chopper in a fire ball, now i know segal is good, but come on a .45mm will not blow up a military chopper, no way no how. Now for the good points here is the quote of the centry in this movie,"I think your confussed. Your not like them, I'm alittle like them, but, much, much WORSE!" and the old bit_h w/ the fully auto gun, damn awsome.and was that bob dole, cutto news break "Live from some country in europe, film action star Steven Segal has walked in to an U.S.embassy libary, with an accompliss and started shooting at secret service agents' one who fell frome the secondfloor andtheother shoot in the face, twice, thenn he moved in on senator bob dole, who after being kicked in the junk, was then shot five times in the chest at point blank range. Then witnesses say that they saw segal and his accompliss ran out of the libary with a little girl, probly kidnapped. We'll keep you posted as developments happen." but in the first half an hour segal had dismantled about ten men and a hugh gun fight. Now no matter what they say this Is alot better then merc. for justice. so ha."This just in the bodies of russian ex-K.G.B. agents have been found, and heres a kind of an eye witness" HE TOOK MY EYES, THAT SON-OF-A-BIT_H IF I FIND HIM HE'S DEAD" "Well there you have it." i guess that they forgot to leave hub caps for all the cars in the budget. Now it is good to see some of the coats that helped make segal famous, like the tan 3/4 trench from fire down below, and the blk. trench like in to day u die. that's cool. and the amount of breasts areso much you'd let your kids watch only after they have gotten married, thats how many there are. and thats cool. But this doesn't make up for the weakest boss fight since the movie "Best of the best 2". in a 1 to 10 rating 10 being great i would give this newrelease a 6 1/2. good but not that good, itmust havebeen all that cheese, oh i mean chi, whatever
slawek_wozniak
Member
I finally watch SHADOWMAN for my self
First thing I want to say Is this is Steven forward step in making movies. I'm not talking about "a shaking hand" director or plot and fx. I'm talking about Seagal himslef. He put a lot of effort to make this movie and he looks real I like those short scripts based on revenge (like "Out for a Kill" or "Belly of the beast" and "Hard to kill"). It's simple but i like them. For me an action movie must be simple not too much complicated but not so flat as "Out of Reach" fo ecample. The first scene was great when he teches his students. I don't even think about a couse of this scene in the movie. The actions are fast and played by Seagal at last. Very liked the McGyver scene just like he was making things in Under Siege.
For the first time after "Black Dawn" or "Submerged" I wasn't sleepy I enjoy every minute of SHADOWMAN. I hope thwe director will loose his "shaker hand camera" and make next Steven movie with a stand under it.
If you were asking, I like it much more than Mercenary for Justice.
First thing I want to say Is this is Steven forward step in making movies. I'm not talking about "a shaking hand" director or plot and fx. I'm talking about Seagal himslef. He put a lot of effort to make this movie and he looks real
I like those short scripts based on revenge (like "Out for a Kill" or "Belly of the beast" and "Hard to kill"). It's simple but i like them. For me an action movie must be simple not too much complicated but not so flat as "Out of Reach" fo ecample. The first scene was great when he teches his students. I don't even think about a couse of this scene in the movie. The actions are fast and played by Seagal at last. Very liked the McGyver scene just like he was making things in Under Siege. For the first time after "Black Dawn" or "Submerged" I wasn't sleepy I enjoy every minute of SHADOWMAN. I hope thwe director will loose his "shaker hand camera" and make next Steven movie with a stand under it.
If you were asking, I like it much more than Mercenary for Justice.
latinojazz
Well-Known Member
Well said, slawek
slawek_wozniak
Member
SHADOWMAN was released in Poland region R2 on 24 September. Finally
slawek_wozniak
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I can't wait for the UK release of Shadow Man. I think Seagal's last couple of films have brought him back on top form. I shall buy it the day it is released and can't wait! I just hope this Under Siege 3 thing is true; he could do with a big blockbuster!
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Jace
Incarnation complete
Shadow Man hit our shores not long after MFJ
well it opens with an ok car chase and the martial arts mystical dim mak stuff was cool but it had too much patriot feel to it which made it heady.
Steven, please focus on bustin' more internal organs in future...it surely doesnt take too much effort
well it opens with an ok car chase and the martial arts mystical dim mak stuff was cool but it had too much patriot feel to it which made it heady.
Steven, please focus on bustin' more internal organs in future...it surely doesnt take too much effort
The film was ok, but it wasn't memorable. It was just another outing where his daughter gets kidnapped for political purposes (like Belly of the Beast), and the same old shoddy, amateur camera work. I agree that it's better than his other recent efforts though.
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'I'm just the cook!' - Under Siege.
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'I'm just the cook!' - Under Siege.
