callanvass I was just kidding in my summary. I do question people's state of mind, if they do like this movie, though. You know what the sad thing is? I actually like Steven Seagal when he tries. He'll never be considered a great actor, but he was one of my favorite action heroes growing up. He had charisma in spades, and a huge mean streak in his fights. Those days appear to be long gone, so Seagal makes unwatchable, STD garbage like this. This is his worst STD film. That dubious honor is saying a lot, because of the stinkers he puts out these days. The plot is a convoluted mess, which makes little to no sense. It's got some weird alien like creatures in it, that aren't even remotely menacing These creatures happen to have these laughable looking retractable blades of sorts. It's all done with minimal effort. There is even a soft-core porn sequence involving a girl and two guys. They briefly flirt, before she slashes them to bits. This movie is extremely talky, and excruciatingly boring. It's very hard to pay attention at times, because there are so many talky scenes, with uninteresting dialogue. When an action scene does commence, it's not pretty to watch. It has some cheap explosions, and some mundane fight sequences, which you can't see well at times, because it's so dark. Steven Seagal is god-awful. He's not as overweight as he appears in some others, but that doesn't excuse his lethargic performance. He walks around with his hand in his pockets, delivering his dialogue with no emotion what so ever, and he almost seems to be annoyed to be in this film to begin with. There is one scene where he says "You're really pissi******ng me off" he says it with a whisper, and with little emotion as possible. He waves his hands around while people come at him in fight scenes to block attacks, and doesn't do much in the way of ass kicking. He is also dubbed in certain scenes. If Steven Seagal doesn't care, why should you? I realize he's not a young man anymore, but at least put in some effort. This movie is good for something, though. If you're out of toilet paper, it's good to wipe your ass with. If you need a coaster, the DVD will be a suitable replacement. Think of that, if you're tempted to chuck this out onto the street. In all seriousness there is not much Seagal can do to placate the anger I have for wasting his talents in dreck like this. Why can't there be a zero rating for movies?!DUD

DigitalRevenantX7 Plot Synopsis: Three members of an US Special Forces team are killed in their hotel room by a woman they had brought with them for some fun. Their boss, Commander Marshall Lawson, tries to track down the killer, only to find that the woman was infected by CTX, a substance created by a covert arm of the US military in order to turn ordinary people into mindless killers. With government agents after him, Lawson teams up with the scientist who created CTX in order to stop the spread of the substance.The Review: After the modest success of his debut film ABOVE THE LAW, Steven Seagal has spent the early half of the 1990s making action films, his career reaching its zenith with UNDER SIEGE. Like most action heroes of the era, Seagal's popularity dropped down a couple of notches (he tried to regain favour with the public by making a couple of films where he attempted to reinvent himself as a crusader for the environment), resulting in his career becoming stuck in a rut. Aside from a couple of modestly budgeted action flicks, Seagal found himself in the same arena as his arch-nemesis Jean-Claude Van Damme – the DTV market.Starting with THE FOREIGNER in 2002, the third era of Seagal's career began. From The Foreigner right up to FLIGHT OF FURY, Seagal made a whole heap of B-grade action films where he played a government agent (or ex-government mercenary, secret agent or CIA spook) out to avenge a friend's murder, stop terrorists from committing some nefarious scheme or unravel a government conspiracy. In all these films, Seagal goes about dispatching evildoers with brutal aikido moves & / or gunplay (in real life, Seagal is quite a crack shot with a pistol) while wearing a long black leather coat that he never takes off (possibly in a vain attempt to hide the pot belly he gained). Most of these films do not make any attempt to advance Seagal's career or even elevate themselves above the flood of DTV action films that have come out in the early-to-mid 2000s. Of these, Attack Force is the worst.On a technical standpoint, Attack Force is pretty standard stuff as far as these things go. The action set-pieces are competently conducted, although they do tread on absurdity, with people being thrown through brick walls. Seagal does the usual rounds of being a military Special Forces commander with access to a top-secret military operation, something that is only hinted at, slicing his way through baddies with a pair of blades attached to his wrists.Where Attack Force fails is in its scripting department – the story featured here is only the start of the film's woes. Seagal might be a decent action star but when it comes to writing, his characters range from absurdly defined stereotypes to faceless ones. Here the flaw is at its most magnified, with Seagal writing himself into a deep hole by featuring some real half-cocked military conspiracies involving some kind of drug that turns people into mindless killers; some fine examples of 'faceless' intelligence agents out to silence Seagal by sending entire strike teams after him & his men; a central villain who is not seen until the very end & so forth (don't get me started on the film's title, which is ridiculously generic to say the least).While some of Seagal's films also featured banal writing, most particularly The Foreigner, they also had something else to offset these problems (usually plenty of plot twists & some real clever kills on Seagal's behalf, as well as slick direction by the various directors involved). Here none of those things apply – Attack Force is not only stuck with an incompetent writing team & poor direction but reeks of laziness as far as the story goes – not only is the villain's motivation for committing his evil plan ill-defined, the hero's motivation for tracking the villain down is attributed to mere coincidence – Seagal's team is killed by a hooker who has been infected by CTX by Adam Croasdell's villain as part of an experiment. There are also some unnecessary digital effects of victims having their eyes blink sideways, which doesn't make a lick of sense biologically.When it comes to acting, Seagal goes through the motions with the same one-dimensional performance that he has made a career out of, but minus the self-righteousness that he displayed in most of his films. None of the other actors make anything even resembling a performance or even an impression. Speaking of Seagal, I noticed something strange – Seagal has had his voice dubbed over in half the scenes. Rumour has it that the film's plot was changed after shooting had ended. This makes the film quite dishonest.

PathetiCinema This movie has everything you could wish for from an action epic. Nice.It has Seagal walking around in the dark and mumbling while wearing a black plastic looking knee length jacket. Gone are the nice black leather knee length jackets from his previous movies. Anyway, the knee length leather plastic jacket has to fight of hordes of junkies with a taste for junk. They attack with great force and a lot of people end up slightly dead. However, Steven Seagal's black knee length plastic jacket comes to the rescue and he mumbles at them and they all collapse. Nice.Production values are high for this one. It must have cost at least a hundred dollars to make. Nice. Seagal really pulled out all the stops here( and all the jackets) and I recommend it as his finest work.

Comeuppance Reviews Here we go: another Seagal flick, another donut. Starting with the most generic title you can think of, tons of post-production retooling, and the big man himself, this is not going to be pretty.This is what I scrounged up for a plot: A drug called CTX is being distributed by some unknown force with weird eyes. It's up to Marshall Lawson (Seagal) and his "Attack Force" to stop it.Where should I start? The first thing you'll notice immediately is that Seagal has not done his ADR voice-over work. Almost 100% of the movie does not feature his voice. They got some guy who sounds suspiciously like Bill Pullman to record over the missing Seagal bits. I can't believe Steve is that lazy - to not find the time to go into a studio and record the dialogue HE WROTE! In the first 10 minutes every time they show Marshall speak, they cut very quickly to another person in the room. If that's not enough, Seagal has the gall to say in the script: "I'm glad you recognized my voice" (??!!?).From what I heard, They re-edited this movie three times with two different plot lines: 1. Russian Mafia, 2. Aliens. They already shot footage for both, but Sony and Nu-Image haphazardly put this together to make a quick buck and a deadline.On the plus side, the action scenes, when coherent, are passable and there's a lot of blood during most killings. Don't get me started on the ending! A lot of it goes unexplained...I'll keep watching more Seagal DTV disasters, but I'm running out of patience. But I have an idea for Steve: Make a movie with your craft service table and then shoot it in the harshest light imaginable, film it on the cheap in Romania and make the action scenes complete rubbish... wait a second, He already did that. The movies were "Out Of Reach", "The Foreigner", "Out For A Kill", and "Submerged". Hey, he's reading my mind! Scary...For more insanity, check out: comeuppancereviews.com