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Steven Frederic Seagal (/ s ɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː l / sig-AHL; born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician.A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan [2] where he became the first American to teach in an aikido dojo. [3]
The Los Angeles Times called the film "a dumb, boring dud", even by B-movie standards and accounting for the name Steven Seagal above the title. [4] Jason Best of Movie Talk gave it 1 out of 5, calling it "An amateurish effort all round."
Leaving the city, Shane takes to the road and stops at a rest stop along a lonely stretch of highway. There, he witnesses a state trooper pulling over a car containing two Chinese nationals. The Chinese nationals kill the state trooper and try to kill a couple of witnesses, a young man named Sergey ( Jesse Hutch ) and his friend Markov (Robin ...
Nathan Rabin of The Dissolve wrote, "Urban Justice is a sublimely ridiculous exercise in unintentional self-parody, a so-bad-it's-good romp highly recommended to Seagal fans and detractors alike." [ 2 ] Hock Teh of IGN rated it 5/10 and recommended it Seagal fans only. [ 3 ]
Driven to Kill is a 2009 American-Canadian action film directed by Jeff F. King, starring Steven Seagal, Mike Dopud, Igor Jijikine and Robert Wisden. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on May 19, 2009.
He compares it to Jean-Claude Van Damme's 2007 film Until Death and Abel Ferrara's 1992 film Bad Lieutenant in its subversion of action icons through the use of an unusually flawed protagonist, and claims that, "[Pistol Whipped] has Seagal stretching his persona and exploring new territory without abandoning his classic themes".
The film was one of two movies made by Seagal's own company, Luminosity Media, in association with Emmett/Furla Films Productions Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Family Room Entertainment Corporation. The other film was Belly of the Beast. [1] Filming began in Eastern Europe on 15 September.
Starring Steven Seagal, the film is loosely based on the novel The Last Canadian by William C. Heine. Seagal's first direct-to-video film, it features him as a local doctor and former immunologist who races against time to find a cure for an active viral outbreak, the origins of which trace back to a militia leader who injected himself with a ...