I just happen to be lucky enough to have seen SM. A few quick thoughts:
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+ The production values are quite high. The locations, inside and outside are carefully selected, the costumes, furnitures are looking very good. The look of the movie is great, every scene is beautiful, a pleasure to watch.
+ The pacing is good, a real action-packed movie. TYD had good action scenes, but it just fell into pieces like a puzzle, because of the bad pace. SM instead is quick, has a right focus, the scenes are well edited, and the score adds a lot to the athmosphere.
+ The story is interesting, well built up, although not every characters every motive is crystal clear, the story is pretty easy to follow and as has interesting twists. A very entertaining storyline.
+ Good supporting actors.
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- Although Seagal's soft voice, calm speech even in the most critical situations is quite frightening and surely has a greater effect than loud shouting, I think at some points of the story he could've shown more commitment to the search of her daughter with quicker walking, and some impatient, violent rage: for example loud shouting. I think it is not a good thing when a character on screen says his emotions instead of acting them (f.e: I'm, angry.). I really miss a scene like in OOR, when he looks himself in the mirror. That was a deep scene, which really showed, that Seagal can show a lot of emotions. Here, Seagal portrays a nervous person, who tries to stay calm, think with cool head. And he does this well. But for me BOTB potrayed more levels of emotion of a father who wants his daughter back.
- The intro"s font and design is quite bad, it surely should've been polished a bit.
- The car chase screen looks quite strange because there are no reflections to be seen on the windscreen. This gives the internal car shots a fake feeling.
Overall: I think this is his best DVD regarding the look of it, this is one of the most professionally made in every aspect. However the way Seagal acts, the way he portrays his character was better in ITS, in BOTB and in Foreigner as well.