Steven Seagal: Lawman

I was watching the biography channel late at night and they where showing a full hour of Steven's bio. And i must say i am not really a big fan of his work. During his bio showing, they showed small clips of a show he has done,LawMan. Now I must say, i was intrigued. I got around on watching the show the next day, and i must say, he makes a better cop then actor.

The show really sucks you in after 4 episodes. At first i sort of found it had a much slower pace then other reality cop shows out there. And honestly, the more i watched more i realised that is a good thing. We get to see much more of a human side of a cop's day at work. And most important, we get to see past Steven's tuff man persona.

The is a nice mix of humour,drama and even suspense. Without going into details there's even one scene you really hope Steven gets a hold of the criminal and gives them what the seriously deserve.

I am not surprised that it only went for one season, but in my opinion it is one season strong. I strongly recommend.

This is the documentary series (reality-TV) in which we have an opportunity to see how the work of police officers looks like in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Action, drama and tragedies in which main character participate and help. I watched all episodes from the first season, where I had the opportunity to know Steven from quite other side - as father, husband and deputy sheriffs. The life of the man who is not only an actor who live from playing in films, but a man who having normal life (He wanting to help communities, because he is a part of it). He got my attention for longer and give me opurinty to focus to things that can be essential for everyone of us. I am glad that I pick this for watch. 8/10

As someone who has worked as a corrections officer, deputy sheriff and police officer/detective and now a professor I take serious offense to this tragic display. This show and its "star" make a mockery of the profession that absorbs the slings and arrows all to often. The visuals are that "Chief Reserve Deputy" Steven Seagal and his team tool around Jefferson Parish at high speeds stamping out crime. They cruise the streets in unmarked SUVs and molle gear as Seagal directs their actions like a surly pseudo-psychic grizzled veteran commander. Quick cuts, non-sequiturs and fuzzy camera work makes the show equal more to a Reno 911 than COPS. Ridiculous hard to follow scenarios make the show comical and just ludicrous with its lame commentary and intense music as background. You have no idea why they are chasing who they're chasing and it just seems like civil rights violation after civil rights violation. This show just seems like a game of chase someone anyone no matter what. I would swear most of this is scripted, badly.

I have to start off by saying that I knew almost nothing about Steven Seagal before I saw this show.The only fact I knew about him was that he played guitar and had released CDs, but much like his movies, I was never exposed to them.I just believed what I had heard about him on TV, that he was a fat idiot who made terrible movies.I still haven't seen any of his movies but I did watch every episode of this show.I know it's been over for years but I'm just getting to it now, deal with it.After watching this show I have nothing but respect for Seagal.While his standing in the law enforcement community may be questionable, he's a very talented man.He's an expert marksman who trains other police officers in firearms,he's also a master of Aikido and also trains people in that form of martial arts.To top it all off, he's an awesome guitarist with a great band.I learned all that from this show and I still have no interest in seeing any of his movies.I see that many of the reviews of this show are negative and I bet it's because those people saw his crappy movies.If you have the chance to see this show, watch it.You just might be surprised.

I was extremely excited when I saw the previews to "Lawman" air on TV. I actually had to wait a couple months to be able to set my DVR to record the show. Now I'm not a Steven Seagal fan per-say, but I do enjoy police/prison shows. When I was able to sit down and watch the recorded show I was pretty disappointed by the editing! Just absolutely horrific editing. Things like the same camera shot used multiple times and bad "background music". I was able to tell when one shot of him "turning to watch a suspect" then the next forward shot of him facing forward riding in the truck with a "just riding around" look on his face, were completely edited shots that were smashed together.

Watching Steven work as a Deputy Sheriff along with watching him teach other deputy's self-defense and firearms training was awesome, I studied what he had to say for my own personal use.

PLEASE for the love of God... FIRE the editors. Or Stop using cheesy back ground music, the same shot over and over or smashing shots that don't match together!!

Because of the horrible editors I gave 8 out of ten stars for this review. Good show premise... but bad execution!