Monthly Archive: August 2008

Sequel to The Foreigner.  Seagal goes undercover with a IMF-type ream to stop some nuclear terrorists.

A great title and opening sequence made me think this might be a throwback to the 80s, but I was wrong. Another typical confusing DTV entry.

An interesting look inside the world of LARPing. The film mostly focuses on the stuggle of two men and the fate of their kingdoms.

What originally started out as a monster movie script turned into another typical action movie once Seagal got involved in the production.

A suprisingly strong entry in the DTV era. A battle with the Yakuza allows Seagal to add a lot of his own Japanese interests into the film.

Seagal plays a wildlife conservationist who travels to Poland to save his 13-year old pen pal from a slavery ring.

I’m confused. Every single actor in the film was terrible, but the story was very compelling. I don’t know if I love it or hate it.

Morgan Spurlock turns what could have easily been a cheap publicity stunt into an interesting portrait of how some of the world sees the US.

Director Sin-Tung Ching brings his unique style to this film which has Seagal looking for his missing daughter in Thailand.

Seagal plays a professor of Chinese archaeology at Yale.  Yes, that Yale. This loopy film is one of the better DTV titles so far.

Overly complicated and muddled plot finds secret service agent Seagal in Polland double-crossing the KGB.

Seagal’s last-gasp of a theatrical release. So many double and triple crosses make this film almost incomprehensible. The only PG-13 so far.

Another supporting role for Seagal as a Zen bomb squad commander. A ridiculous amount of stock footage makes this one hard to follow.

Seagal teams up with DMX to fight corruption in the Detriot PD. Seagal’s first use of wire-fu. Film relies too much on lame comic relief.

The beginning of the end – Seagal’s first DTV film. High production values can’t hide the fact that there’s hardly any action in this film.

At first  David Mamet and MMA seems like an odd pairing, but his crackling dialogue spices up this tale of one man’s quest to do what’s right.