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Potential

posted 17 years ago by persadie
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This movie had potential

-The Tai Chi scene at the start hilarious and a homage to Above The Law Aikido scene.

-Segal making home made guns in the house he was trapped in was nice, Underseige homage.

-Where was the fight with Segal and the older agent that talked crap about martial arts, that could have been a great fight! Like the last fight in Glimmer Man.

All we needed was a scene where Segal bullies some punks a la Out For Justice bar scene, a Segal ranting monologue like in On Deadly Ground, and finally a last boss fight scene with blades like in Marked for Death, Underseige, Underseige 2.

I have these 3 movies with Segal.

Black Dawn - best story of the bunch.
Out For a Kill - funnest of the bunch.
Shadow Man - had the most potential of the bunch.

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[–] kairingler 17 years ago

yeah the operative word here is HAD.. this movie to me was the worst Seagal of the bunch, and i'm a big fan of his.. i was so disappointed in that movie, i loved stuff like Black Dawn,, Glimmer Man.. Out of Reach,, just to name a few,
works for me

[–] MonteCarloMan 13 years ago

Had potential? I thought this movie came across okay for a DTV...enough so that I went out and bought it after renting it.

These are the S.S. films I have so far in my collection:

(1) Out For Justice - Is there a better bar fight out there? Havent seen one yet.
(2) Marked For Death - The swordfight at the end was a must see, as well as the out of placeness of a Jamacian posse gang running about in Chicago. Danny Trejo has an early bit role in this one.
(3) On Deadly Ground - The barfight in this one is almost up to par with Out for Justice's except without as much dialog but Seagal's man speech at the end of it was classic S.S.
(4) Into the Sun - Set in Japan, again the swordfights were awesomely done and this one was as close to his actual life story than any other movie he has done so far.
(5) Shadow Man - Loved the European locales and Seagal is simply bad-ass in this one with his Maguyverish weapon homages to previous films thrown in.
(6) Urban Justice - His funny hood accent is a must see and he does a good job in this one kicking azz and taking names; his interaction with Danny Trejo is a nice precursor to Machete. Steven Seagal is in the hood!
(7) Driven to Kill - Russian accent was interestingly funny and the movie was as dark as it was outrageous with the violence thrown into it set to Russian Polka music! LoL -

Those would be my recommendations.