I just watched Kill Switch (2008)
This one is bad, its trying to be like Se7en, but also Above The Law at the same time, it has Seagal with an appalling accent and I just don't buy him as a genius crack detective!! He just doesn't have the range to pull off serial killer detective. Seagal makes a great former secret service or former Marine special forces or whatever. He also makes a good cop on a revenge mission taking down a huge organized crime organization. But as a serial killer expert, it just came off as urrggggh.
It's filled with stupid quick cuts and jerky camera moves. The fight scenes, are repetitive, overlong and poorly executed. Seeing as Seagal managed to write the script, other characters call him "a genius" among other compliments, (I have never seen an actor be talked about like this in so many movies!! It is laughable) although evidence of genius, or even mild intelligence, are not really on display. Seagal could have written anything for himself, but he chose to make Jacob a horrible, unlikeable torturer!! There's no possible way an audience can like this character as he's brutally, mercilessly, unnecessarily torturing his victims.
And as for the fight scenes, oh dear...what appears to be happening is Seagal just stands there, while stunt doubles don oversized leather jackets and ridiculous wigs and pretend to be Seagal. The way this is all edited together is laughably bad. It's so blindingly obvious it's not Seagal, who do they think they're fooling? And the real crime is that the scenes, especially the first major one in the bar, go on for a ridiculously long time, leaving the viewer ample opportunity to see it is not him.
Skip this. It's a waste of film.
This one is bad, its trying to be like Se7en, but also Above The Law at the same time, it has Seagal with an appalling accent and I just don't buy him as a genius crack detective!! He just doesn't have the range to pull off serial killer detective. Seagal makes a great former secret service or former Marine special forces or whatever. He also makes a good cop on a revenge mission taking down a huge organized crime organization. But as a serial killer expert, it just came off as urrggggh.
It's filled with stupid quick cuts and jerky camera moves. The fight scenes, are repetitive, overlong and poorly executed. Seeing as Seagal managed to write the script, other characters call him "a genius" among other compliments, (I have never seen an actor be talked about like this in so many movies!! It is laughable) although evidence of genius, or even mild intelligence, are not really on display. Seagal could have written anything for himself, but he chose to make Jacob a horrible, unlikeable torturer!! There's no possible way an audience can like this character as he's brutally, mercilessly, unnecessarily torturing his victims.
And as for the fight scenes, oh dear...what appears to be happening is Seagal just stands there, while stunt doubles don oversized leather jackets and ridiculous wigs and pretend to be Seagal. The way this is all edited together is laughably bad. It's so blindingly obvious it's not Seagal, who do they think they're fooling? And the real crime is that the scenes, especially the first major one in the bar, go on for a ridiculously long time, leaving the viewer ample opportunity to see it is not him.
Skip this. It's a waste of film.