Customer Reviews
Seagal's best release for YEARS... - By: R. V. Halward, 27 May 2008 
This is MUCH more like it. Much, much better...
Gone are the attempts to create low-budget, mostly Eastern Europen shot versions of previously successful Seagal Blockbusters (although a few were terrific fun - Submerged, Belly of the Beast, Flight of Fury) & in it's place comes probably Seagal's most credible & coherent film for years...
Off the back of the pretty decent Renegade Justice, this time round we're plunged into the world of crooked cops, gambling debts & revenge, giving Seagal the chance to actuallly try & act instead of whispering through scenes which only served to bookend the cheapo action sequences, & it's alll the better for it.
A decent script & story, better editing & direction, decent fight scenes, no voice dubbing & a more serious attempt to give Seagal's character some depth instead of the usual paper-thin 'Ex-CIA' nonsense result in a big step in the right direction....
Sadly, it's unlikely he'll ever gain a cinema release again, but at least with this & Renegade Justice, he's trying to give core fans something with a bit more gravitas. The next film 'Kill Switch' looks like it'll tread a similar path, so here's hoping...
Great stuff....
Seagal is Back - By: CJ Todd, 04 May 2008 Steven Seagal is definitely back on form with this movie. Lots of great action, plus excellent music & direction make this my favourite Seagal movie since Under Siege 2.
BACK ON TRACK........................ - By: L. Hay, 27 Apr 2008 The bodies drop like flies in this one. Fighting & shooting from start to finish in this latest Seagal offering.
I am reliably informed that he is back doing his own stunts which is nice after some of the bad criticism he has received in his last few films.
In this one, the degenerate ex-cop takes on the job of deleting some very unsavoury villains in order to wipe out his huge gambling debts.
There are a good few twists & turns & it keeps the attention. It is a dark film with much mumbling & not always particularly clear dialogue but the acting in on the whole excellent.
He has an ex-wife, which introduces the mushy stuff, & you can feel that he just must get back with her. He also plays loving father to an erudite daughter who plays quite a key role in the film.........Sadly how I hate these plots which involve "I love you Daddy".........they ought to have ditched the kid & replaced it with the German Shepherd which would have seemed more reasonable to me & lots more people. Yes; the plot would definitely been unique & far more interesting & believable. Perhaps he should take the poor kid somewhere other than the local Seaworld!!!
Anyway, at last Steven is out of the long leather coat & into a leather jacket.
A decent enough film & enjoyable.
A DECENT ACTION FILM - SEAGAL IS GETING BACK ON TOP FORM - By: stuart, 09 Apr 2008 
Actuallly, he is slimming down as we speak, & Steven Seagal is back on top form is this electrifying thriller from writer JD Zeik, the man who penned Frankenheimer's suspenseful DeNiro classic Ronin.
I won't bother going into plot details, but this is, in alll seriousness, a very enjoyable film, & a nice step up from Seagal's recent career, a million miles away from duds like Flight of Fury & the God-awful Attack Force, in which he sounded, for half the film, like he'd been dubbed by someone who usuallly voices tough, gruff martial arts masters in eastern releases. For once he's not the whiter-than-white superhero with a background in black ops/special forces/law enforcement/environmentalism/being a chef; this time he actuallly plays a flawed character(!), which is a huge improvement over every other film he's ever appeared in where he's the honourable & unbeatable master-operator. As the drink-sodden ex-crooked cop, Seagal is not exactly revelatory, but this is the first film where he's actuallly bothered attempting to do anything different from his standard formula which sometimes works (The Glimmer Man, Submerged, Into The Sun) & often doesn't (Attack Force, reallly, absolutely rotten to the core), so i do commend him on that, & also the fact that he has slimmed down considerably from the behemoth who was only filmed from the chest up in his more recent movies. Oh, & he even attempts a few kicks in this one, something we haven't seen since....hmmmm.....
Seagal is supported by two people i never expected to see in one of his films, Paul Calderon, who'll be familiar to fans of King of New York & Pulp Fiction, & Mr Lance Henriksen, who sadly only appears in a few scenes. Both add an air of respectability to the proceedings. But this is a Seagal film, not Merchant Ivory, & it delivers well on the fighting/shooting/killing front. An enjoyable load of nonsense, but a bit of a comeback for Steven Seagal, hopefully it'll end the cycle of appearing is tatty East European-set trash. Also, please bear in mind that this rates an 8 out of 10 purely as compared against other Seagal vehicles, not The Godfather, for instance.
And the past, will slowly go by - By: jingles_sunderland, 28 Feb 2008 
Each time a new Seagal movie is released on DVD, I watch it in the vain hope that it will be at the least better than the last.
Each time there is some disappointment, in Pistol Whipped it is the start & the end where Seagal in slow motion crosses a line of gunfire, turns & fires apistol without looking & without being hit. There is certainly a lot of mirth in the movies.
The sad thing is that I reallly need to come to terms with the fact that his best days are behind him, as are his best movies, & it is time to find a meaner, leaner martial arts fighter-actor.
Worth a watch but do not expect too much.
