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[redcap]

I suffered through this Steven Seagal schlocker last night. I used to like his movies way back when. Of late he has become so formulaic it is sad. He has the pony tail. The shirt buttoned to the collar but never a tie on (I hate that! Either put on a tie or open the damn neck). Then there is the native coat. In one movie he was a native american and wore this Indian looking jacket. This time he is a professor of Chinese artefacts (formerly a thief of them but he got his PhD in prison and reinvented himself until his wife is murdered and he has to hunt down the Tong that did it) and wears this Chinese print smoking jacket or a leather coat. Always the hands in the front pockets ready to chop sockey a dozen baddies.

It was pathetic. He disarms this gunman in a restaurant yet in doing so the bloke fires off half a mag and wipes out three innocent diners, narrowly misses his own wife (there is a gratuitous titty scene before this that was worth watching) and then kills the bloke. In fact he kills about ten or more, half of whom he asks for info but when they refuse to tell him right away he kills them. But only the Chinese. The American pilot he scares into telling him everything by flying his plane wildly and then lets him go. But wait... this pilot was the one that flew him to a Dig Site in China but has a flying school in New York. Huh?

Continuity was not a strong feature of this movie either. Somehow cars are procured in Bulgaria and Seagal is able to chase the third last guy in the chain. He finally gets to the last bloke and kills four armed gunmen who have to walk up to him pointing their Barettas in his face, even though three see what happened to the first etc. WHy not shoot him from cover? Because it is not in the script.

There are some slinky babes in leather in the movie and that would save it if they cut out all of Seagal's scenes. Especially the one where he meets a black/hispanic? guy in a Chinese prison, caught bringing marijuana over the border from Kazahkstan (as if) who cries 'Don't forget me!' as Seagal is released. All on the orders of a DEA agent who wears the same rain coat, suit and tie pulled down from his never shaven face all through the movie. He neither showers nor changes for months, from China to NYC to Bulgaria to Paris! His Hong Kong Police (with a Pre-1997 'badge' with crown the RHKP never used) partner is a sexy chick who wears just a leather rain coat.

I can't go on. I was writing this as therapy but instead it has brought it all back to me. He should have stopped after he banged Kelly Le Brock in 'Hard To Kill'. I recall one movie way back when he was a NYC cop and arrived at a crime scene with a tank top and wearing a green beret. This showed he was a former Green Beret and not to be messed with. I thought anyone who would wear a Green Beret (and as badly as he did) was a wanker who was never in the Green Berets. Do any of you guys who were or know those who were in SF who wear Green Berets as part of their everyday civilian attire? I just don't get the Hollywood thing, do I?
Redcap

[Hock]

...the shirt buttoned to the collar but never a tie on...

I read, as I undo my top button....



Hock

(This calls for another viewing of:
http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/seagal_scattered/  )

[JimH]

In "Out for Justice" Seagal wore the Green Beret with the 5th Group Flash in a portion of the movie.
This is because he had a student who was a Green Beret in 5th Group in Vietnam/Laos,so he heard stories from this guy and adopted part of this guys life as part of his,Seagal's,persona and it found its way onto the screen.

I have seen people wearing the Green Beret on the street,never with Flash and Crest.
Never have seen a Green Beret wearing one daily.
Have seen them wearing them at reunions and funerals.

Seagal never served in any military or in any Government agency.
Part of the reason he went to Japan and married a Japanese woman was to avoid the possibility of being drafted.

I had opportunity to meet and speak with Seagal ,and he is a funny guy and a friendly guy,but he is an Actor with a life that is a story.

He is still making money with his direct to DVD and or TV movies and his just finished Reality show about himself as "Lawman".

In the show the Lawman,his final show had him setting up a scene for a future movie,they said his movie signature is explosives,shoot outs and high body counts.
So "Out for a Kill" fits his goals.

[VicMackey]

I don't waste time with his new movies after "Exit Wounds". They are all pure garbage.