Beyond the Law

The line from Detective Munce just about sums it up: "Gremlins... it's a f$@!ing film. Watch it, it's a classic!"

So true, a classic. Unlike this film.

Wow this was bad. I'm surprised that Seagal still bothers to put out useless crap like this (although I'm not even sure of that). I honestly don't know what the point of this film is. All Seagal does is sit in poorly lit rooms (with sunglasses) and whisper incomprehensively whilst smoking fat cigars, oh and he puts on a weird Southern accent too. His total screentime whilst standing up adds up to less than a minute, including a 15 second fight scene and a hilariously bad shooting scene. I don't know if he's trying to hide his obvious weight gain, lacking the energy to stand or just being lazy, but at this point Seagal isn't even 'bad in a funny way' to watch. At least Kill Switch was genuinly hilarious to watch.

Everything else about this film is just generic and forgettable, there is nothing here you haven't seen before in better movies.

Seagal has been coasting on fumes for a while, but this is cheap and shoddy, even by his rapidly declining standards. He's not even the star of this revenge tale; his role - such as it is - is tangential, and his contributions to the "action" is even less than his poorly-delivered dialog. And for new achievements in cost-cutting, several of the fatal shootings are heard, but not seen. As little as they obviously spent on the script, you'd think they had a few bucks to spend on squibs, so we'd at least see some blood on the bodies. This flick deserves all the lack of revenue the budget people must have expected.

First, Steven Seagal has gotten fat. He does not look healthy--much less fit. This movie is dark...in more ways than one. Not only is it done in gritty inner-city areas but its subject and characters are almost all negative creatures of darkness. Seagal appears in only one fight scene--if you can call it that. He whispers, which is hard to hear and irritating. He has this vague Southern accent, which seems put-on. Worse still, he isn't the hero. I've been a fan of Seagal for many years, and have a collection of perhaps all of his videos. This one may well be the last.

Didn't they pay Steven Seagal for this film? What was he doing there? Wasted 1.30 hours for this trash.