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Does he intentionally pick bad projects?


It amazes me. How hard would it be to look at the track record of the directors he's working with.

Previous work DANNY LERNER has directed:

Traitor's Heart
IMDB score: 2.6/10 (50 votes)
Seen it and it's an absolutely abysmal piece of drivel filmed in South Africa and trying to pass it off as the USA. Much of it is composed of stock footage from earlier movies by the production company NuImage and it's all spliced together really shoddily. Awful direction, stupid script, awful movie.

Shark Zone
IMDB score: 2.0/10 (49 votes)
"Imagine that they let him direct after giving him twenty minutes inside a stock footage vault from The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week to splice out everything he could get his hands on. Welcome to Bulgaria pretending to be San Francisco. Welcome to Hell. Welcome to Shark Zone." - Ziggy's Video Realm

He has 2 other directorial efforts, both awaiting 5 votes. He has also written the scripts for many of the worst NuImage "action" movies of all time. Such as:

Merchant of Death (1997) 3.6/10 (62 votes)
Operation Delta Force II: Mayday (1998) 3.0/10 (99 votes)
Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target (1998) 2.9/10 (125 votes)
U.S. Seals (1999) 2.2/10 (499 votes)
Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire (1999) 3.3/10 (77 votes)
Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault (1999) 3.4/10 (71 votes)
Octopus 2: River of Fear (2001) 2.5/10 (143 votes)
Disaster (2001) 2.3/10 (42 votes)
U.S. Seals: Dead or Alive (2002) 2.9/10 (51 votes)
Out for a Kill (2003) 3.0/10 (658 votes) bottom 100: #63

Basically, the only worse choice he could have made than starring in a Danny Lerner directed vehicle would be an Albert Pyun or Jim Wynorski movie. This is almost as bad as it gets.

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I thought we were talking about Luke Goss. Lol. Goddamnit, hes a talented actor and apart from a couple of films, he is choosing crappy quality movies to be a part of. For Gods sake Luke, you are working with Steven Seagal and Danny Lerner, just leave the project for own good.

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I have no clue if Seagal these just chooses awful scripts at random or if they're the best scripts he can get.

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Probably a bit of both. I reckon he just likes to work, and he takes anything that pays reasonably well and doesn't require much effort.

And more power to him! Considering that he's got a very easy-to-please fan base that's happy to shell out money for any piece of crap with his name on it, he may as well cash in while he can. I know I would...


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Right On! When you think about it Steven makes everyone else look like complete fools in the entertainment business. I mean his latest movies are crap, but never the man himself. He's an established superstar with more money and respect then any almost other famous actor in Hollywood. He laughs at everyone on the way to the bank and on the way home with a pizza. He's the man!!!

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He's in bad movies made by bad directors because that's all he's offered.

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Maybe he just wants quick cash,if you think about he really is getting quick cash,i hear he is only on set half the time,anyway i thought this movie was ok at least for shootouts and explosions

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