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Seagal's ego still doesn't allow anyone to hit him?

posted 9 years ago by poesy962003
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I remember watching old Seagal movies and laughing that he never gets punched throughout the entire runtime. Bad guys can't even land a finger on him. Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme, Lundgren, etc. all don't mind taking a little ass-beating for the sake of realism, but not Seagal. Always must be a "Flawless Victory".

So I found "Absolution" on YouTube, skipped forward to the last scene, there he is against a henchman and the main villain Vinnie Jones. Henchman gets the living sh*t beaten out of him by fat Sensei Seagal, who stays still like a frozen piece of wood throughout the entire fight, can Vinnie Jones put up a bit more of a challenge since he's the boss? LOL, NOPE. "You're out bitch", "Get up and fight bitch" - HAHAHAHAHA, if that was the main boss fight I could only imagine how easily Seagal took care of everyone else before this final climax. Change the genre to COMEDY please :))

[–] qrz94 9 years ago

This movie was amazingly bad. Between all the disturbing close ups of Seagal, his chasing after another woman young enough to be his granddaughter and the fights it took my 4 tries before I was able to get to the end.

The whole movie is essentially a build up to the final fight between Jones and Seagal which ends up the Jones not even getting one hit.

[–] Slavic 8 years ago

Yeah, I was wondering about that myself too. When Seagal was younger he let bad guys hit him a little bit here and there, but now it seems like he went Chuck Norris' road. I wonder what exactly happened to him. Doesn't he think we won't notice? :)

[–] raymongracie 8 years ago

Maybe when egos get big enough they literally form a protective shield around a person that prevents others from hitting them?

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

Seagal has a reputation for hitting stuntmen in fight scenes.

Maybe he doesn't want to give them a chance to hit back.