Rank the Seagal Films
How would you rank the Seagal films, best to worst, and what rating did you give them?
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Above The Law
Under Siege
Marked For Death
The Glimmer Man
Out For Justice
Driven To Kill
Hard To Kill
Exit Wounds
Urban Justice
Under Siege 2
Half Past Dead
Pistol Whipped
Fire Down Below
On Deadly Ground
Today You Die
Nico
Under Siege
Hard to Kill
Out for Justice
Under Siege 2
Exit Wounds
The Glimmer Man
Belly of the Beast
Urban Justice
Fire Down Below
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The man's a legend. Mine's gotta be:
1)Out for Justice
2)Marked for Death
3)Above the Law
4)A Dangerous Man
5)Exit Wounds
6)Glimmer Man
7)The Keeper
8)On Deadly Ground
9)Into the Sun
10)Under Siege 2
11)under Siege
12)Fire Down Below
There are some other class ones, and some awful ones.
What disappoints me is why he appears in toss like Kill Switch, Black Dawn and Against the Dark - for a man so fiercely proud of his fighting skills and reputation, its awful seeing fight scenes that blantantly aren't him. He can do the moves better than most people in the world, so why use wanky stunt doubles? What's even worse than that is when they dont even look like Seagal - these doubles often have different hair and even different colour suit jackets, wot the crunk?!
Ah well, the last 3 films (Driven to Kill, The Keeper and Dangerous Man) have been awesome with him in most if not all the fight scenes, so hopefully it's the way forward now, and his appearance in Machete will bring back the man the myth!! ;-)
Love Steven Seagal films; there is just something utterly watchable about 95% of his films (barring Against the Dark- its was quite possibly one of the worst films ever). I'll rank my tops here:
1) Out For Justice
2) Above the Law
3) Hard to Kill
4) Executive Decision (I know he wasn't the star, but his death scene alone is priceless! His little doll body flying in the air; classic)
5) Under Seige
6) Marked For Death
7) Fire Down Below
8) Under Seige 2
9) On Deadly Ground
10) The Glimmer Man
11) Exit Wounds (a couple of fantastic fight scenes- love when the bus hits the dummy cop on the bridge, but other than that its unwatchable)
As for his direct to video films, they all fall into the 'so bad its good' category, although the following were better than normal, and had a little bit more time been spent on casting, fixing the script, production values, etc. they could have been released in theaters.
1) The Keeper
2) Into the Sun
3) Urban Justice
4) Pistol Whipped (they reaaally could have made something great with this one)
5) Belly of the Beast
But the man truly is a legend; you gotta love even the worst of his films.
Above the Law - 8
Marked for Death - 7
The Patriot - 7
Exit Wounds - 7
Belly of the Beast - 7
Out for Justice - 7
Fire Down Below - 7
Into the Sun - 6
Under Siege - 6
Hard to Kill - 6
Pistol Whipped - 6
Urban Justice - 6
Driven to Kill - 6
Half Past Dead - 6
Today You Die - 6
Out of Reach - 6
On Deadly Ground - 6
Under Siege 2 - 6
Executive Decision - 5
The Keeper - 5
The Onion Movie - 5
The Glimmer Man - 4
Mercenary for Justice - 4
A Dangerous Man - 4
Submerged - 3
Kill Switch - 3
Shadow Man - 3
Black Dawn - 3
The Foreigner - 3
Flight of Fury - 3
Against the Dark 3
Clementine - 3
Ticker - 2
Attack Force - 2
12 Theatrical films, ranking
1. Marked For Death
2. Out For Justice
3. Under Siege
4. Above The Law
5. Hard To Kill
6. On Deadly Ground (genius masterpiece, this film is 100% SEAGAL, man)
7. Under Siege 2
8. Executive Decision
9. Fire Down Below
10. Glimmer Man
11. Exit Wounds
12. Half Past Dead (worse than bunch of his direct-to-video ones.)
Direct-to-video
top-5
1. Belly Of The Beast (great HK-influenced crazy action film, rewatch-value)
2. Urban Justice (seagal doing some death wish antics here, kicks and shoots a lot)
3. Black Dawn (fun action film)
4. Pistol Whipped (something different for seagal, slowmoving crimedrama)
5. The Foreigner (yes, that one dont deserve to be on the list, but its so amusingly bad)
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wild card: Onion Movie
bottom-5
Submerged, Attack Force, Flight Of Fury, Out Of Reach, Kill Switch
+Against The Dark (Havent seen it, Seagal and horror, no deal. Why he involved in this kind of bull)
seen pretty much all, Dangerous Man and that Against The Dark are thr ones I havent seen.
Out for Justice - 8/10
Under Siege - 8/10
Above the Law - 7.5/10
Marked for Death - 7.5/10
Hard to Kill - 7/10
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory - 6/10
The Glimmer Man - 5/10
Exit Wounds - 5/10
Fire Down Below - 3/10
On Deadly Ground - 3/10
I have seen all of earlier Seagals but I haven't watched most of his recent films. Frankly after 'The Patriot' I lost the little faith I still had on Seagal. Let's see if 'Machete' can re-launch his career but I doubt it, as far as I know he's gonna have only a few scenes.
IMO Seagal only starred in 2 good action films:
1. Above the Law
2. Under Siege
a Few "decent" or "average" flicks:
3. Out for Justice
4. Fire Down Below
5. Under Siege 2
and the rest are just stinkers.
Above the Law/Nico gets a 6.5, for accurate portrayal of actual Japanese martial arts.
Then there is a void... nothing at all... until the rest follows somewhere beneath 3.5. I cannot bother to even sort them.
It's about time someone makes a REALLY good Japanese martial arts movie. Means: actual JAPANESE Martial Arts... good acting... good story...
Ah well... probably that's a utopia!
Here are mine from Best to less than best
Hard to Kill
Above the Law
Under Siege
Under Siege 2
Out for Justice
Marked for Death
Glimmer Man
Fire Down Below
On Deadly Ground
Exit Wounds
Half Past Dead
there's a few more I might have seen but this is it so far..
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