Kill Switch
by Jeff King
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Actor: Holly Dignard, Steven SeagalDirector: Jeff King
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENT.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Product features:
- Detective Jacob Stillwell (Steven Seagal) is one of the most celebrated homicide detectives in the country. His brutal delivery of street justice is legendary among the men and women of law enforcement. But on this latest case, he may have finally met his match Lazerus, a cunning and perversely violent killer who is on the loose and terrorizing the inner city. Stillwell Ts desperate pursuit o
DVD Reviews of Kill Switch
DVD Review: What happened Segal ??
Summary: 1 Stars
I was a fan of Segal back in the day, but its been years since I seen him in a movie......now I know why !!!
To keep it short "ITS BAD" ! The ending has nothing to do with the movie ! its crazy !!!!! As a fan of Segal from the good ol action movie days....this was a big let down. Sorry Steven. Even the title has nothing to do with the movie. 1 star is for the music which was good !
DVD Review: FBI Agent Miller is the star
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is worth 5 stars because of the hot brunette FBI Agent Frankie Miller (Holly Dignard)!
I have to give a 4-star rating because of the plot and production. Most of the movie is just one whirl of disconnected suspense about how one maverick cop (Seagal, of course) tries to fit clues to find 2 serial killers on the loose. Some scenes are just too abrupt and don't flow with the movie: eg. how and where did FBI Agent Miller land up entering an apartment of a man who was threatening his woman with a weapon? One minute Agent Miller has just walked out of a crime scene and the next scene shows her and another female cop in an already opened doorway confronting the armed man. You should see how this sexy FBI Agent disarmed her potential attacker with ease without sweating her waxed eyebrows - she moves faster than Seagal! LOL!
Zoom or pan out the camera, Seagal.
Your fans want to see your fancy footwork and hands.
How about I produce a movie with you next time?
Tell you more later!
DVD Review: a hot time in Memphis with Stevie . . .
Summary: 3 Stars
Kill Switch (2008) is a gritty and edgy thriller set in Memphis, featuring Steven Seagal as Jacob King, a police detective on the trail of a pair of psychotic killers. Bille Joe Hill (Mark Collie) is a sadistic nutcase who enjoys using a knife. Lazereus (Michael Filipowich), is deeply into astrology, the occult, and heavy metal. Hidden in the shadows, driven to kill by inner demons, he is the serial killer known as 'the Grifter'. With FBI agent Frankie Miller (Holly Dignard) poking around, King has his hands full. In one of his last film appearances, the late Isaac Hayes adds some class and humor, as an overtaxed coroner.
Seagal's films are often the subject of harsh criticism, and while Jeff King directs, Seagal can be held to account more than usual, as he did write the screenplay. The film moves along pretty well, but there are some problems with the fight scenes. Some of the action sequences may produce dizziness or eye strain, due to the frequent use of a technique where the same event is shown several times. This repeat view technique, combined with the usual quick cutting, use of doubles, insertion of Seagal's face, and changing of speeds, leads to some disjointed looking scenes. One fight in a bar seems to go on forever. This is followed by an extended, poorly executed gunfight in the street. Things like this, detracts from the general enjoyment of the film.
Besides agent Miller, Seagal has written in a number of females for his character to interact with. Karyn Michelle Baltzer is Celine, a police officer whose role in King's life is not spelled out, though she is often in King's home wearing a robe. Daniella Evangelista is a lovely barmaid, who somehow winds up pinned to a door. Exotic Anna Mae Routledge, plays a librarian who crosses paths with Hill, and meets an unknown fate. And Andrea Stefancikova makes a brief but revealing appearance as King's better half.
Kill Switch has a dark and heavy atmosphere. Seagal's screenplay has a hard edge, with lots of brutality, including the hammering and breaking of bones, surging arterial flow, psychotic killers, and a number of women getting slashed. With King actually doing some half decent detective work, and a pretty good cast, this is probably one of Seagal's better direct to video projects.
DVD Review: Seagal is at it again
Summary: 4 Stars
Kill Switch is another DTV starring Steven Seagal (who also wrote) as a Detective investigating a series of grisly murders.It's got a good plot kinda Seven-like but with alot more action.I only have a few complaints being the Seagal fan i am.His double is too noticeable and the quick cuts.These and the ending are the only downfall.All in all this is a good movie it has it's high points but i liked Driven to Kill much better.DVD Review: Seagal: still beating the crap out of bad guys after all these years
Summary: 3 Stars
It's been quite awhile since I saw my last Steven Seagal film, so maybe that's why I enjoyed Kill Switch a little more than most other viewers. Watching bad guys pay a heavy price for their crimes falls under my definition of entertainment, and Seagal just absolutely beats the crap out of any loser dumb enough to get in his way - and he doesn't waste any time getting down to business. In the opening scene, some sicko has wired explosives to a woman's chest, and the bomb squad has only a few minutes to figure out which wire to cut. Somehow knowing that the perpetrator is watching from a room across the street, Seagal's character bursts in on him and subjects him to some rather intense interrogation. It's just a foretaste of the violence to come later in the movie.
The story, which Steven Seagal wrote himself, isn't all that bad - especially given the pretty obvious fact that parts of that story didn't make it into the studio's final cut. The product description, for example, describes Seagal's character, Detective Jacob King, as "one of the most celebrated homicide detectives in the country." That certainly didn't come through in the film; as far as I could tell, he was just a Memphis detective (with perhaps the weirdest pseudo-Southern accent I've ever heard) who tends to go into rogue mode during his investigations but always ends up getting his man. There also seem to be some holes in the subplot involving the less important of two murderers, but it's the ending - unexpected and potentially confusing - that strongly suggests that you the viewer are correct in thinking you must have missed something pretty important earlier in the film.
Of course, you don't watch a Seagal film for the storyline; you watch it for all of the butt-kicking action sure to come your way. If the plot holds together in any sort of concrete manner, that's just a bonus. (Speaking of bonuses, Kill Switch also features the great Isaac Hayes - playing a coroner - in one of his final film roles.) Kill Switch definitely serves up plenty of action, as Jacob has to go through a lot of different people to get his hands on a serial killer before he claims another victim. Subplots come and go (and I must say the inclusion of Holly Dignard as an FBI special agent sent to observe and evaluate Jacob's rather unconventional style of crime fighting is one that was never truly developed), but Seagal's action scenes (with or without a stunt double) are still worth the price of admission.
Description of Kill Switch
Detective Jacob Stillwell (Steven Seagal) is one of the most celebrated homicide detectives in the country. His brutal delivery of street justice is legendary among the men and women of law enforcement. But on this latest case, he may have finally met his match Lazerus, a cunning and perversely violent killer who is on the loose and terrorizing the inner city. Stillwell s desperate pursuit of Lazerus takes him into the dark, depraved Memphis underworld of street sex and senseless violence.General DVDs
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