Kill Switch
by Jeff King
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Actor: Holly Dignard, Steven SeagalDirector: Jeff King
Brand: First Look Pictures
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
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
DVD Reviews of Kill Switch
DVD Review: "Lod have merca"
Summary: 1 Stars
Perhaps by the end of this review you may feel that I am a Seagal hater, I am not. I can easily sit and enjoy all of Seagal's Warner Brothers outings and Half Past Dead and have purchased and enjoy repeated viewings of a good number of his DTV output including Belly Of the Beast, Out Of Reach, Mercenary For Justice, Shadow Man, Urban Justice and Pistol Whipped. Which brings me to a certain point, after Urban Justice especially and also Pistol Whipped it looked like Seagal was making an effort to listen to his fans and make amends for the terrible quality of Flight Of Fury and Attack Force but that does not seem to be true. With Don E Faunt and Roel Reine as directors, Seagal simply seems to have gotten lucky with a few good above average DTV's. I think it is obvious that Seagal does not care at this stage that he is voice dubbed in his films, he knows where the money is made on these DTV releases and that is in non English speaking countries where Seagal is dubbed into the local languages anyway so why should he care. His acting if anything is even worse now than it was in the 90's which only verged on the passable. Seagal simple does not have any understanding or probably it's that he doesn't care about the craft of acting. I have purposely made this a long review as Kill Switch will be my last Seagal outing as I have had enough of these poor quality DTV's and Seagal blaming everyone around him for them being so terrible so I felt that I needed to get it all out of my system in this review. I'm sure all the Seagal fans who believe Seagal can do no wrong will be upping the 'was this review helpful to you' numbers in the negitive, that is if they could be bothered reading my review in the first place.
Lets begin by clearing something up, like another reviewer D.J Hooson stated, I don't know what film "Joan Turner - writer, editor and publisher" saw called Kill Switch that deserved a 5 star rating but it could not have been this embarrassment starring Steven Seagal. This DTV outing is just a mess and the last straw with these Seagals DTV's, the man just does not care what cr*p he makes so long as there is a pay cheque in it for him at the end. To get into the negatives straight away, the film is very dark, Seagal is voice dubbed for roughly 80% of his lines, his fight scenes are 90% doubled with quick cuts to Seagal's face every few seconds. The editing of this film is just terrible sometimes repeating the same shot up to 10 times from different angles. Seagal wears the same long black coat throughout the entire film, he has yet again another love interest barely in her 20's, he calls his male police partner 'Baby' on several occasions, and address' females in this film as 'Man', has Seagal become gender confused! Also get used to hearing 'Lod have merca' as this is Seagal's new catch phrase. I propose to anyone renting this DVD, to really enjoy this film, get out the tequila and every time Seagal says 'Lod have merca' take a shot. Trust me; perhaps even you will be giving this a 5 star rating by the end, right Joan!
A few comments on Seagal's character as written by Seagal, remember Seagal is the sole credited writer on this so I feel justified in pointing the finger directly at Seagal on this occasion for the terrible script and dialogue. Seagal brutally assaults a suspect at the beginning of the film, I say Seagal, but I really mean Seagal and lots of help from his body double and voice double. Seagal kicks the suspect out of a six story window, which in my book could be considered attempted murder or at the least excessive police brutality, nothing happens to Seagal. Next up, Seagal's body double is put to work assaulting 3 seemingly innocent patrons in a bar who give Seagal some lip. Seagal now takes it upon himself, or rather his body double, to teach these boys a lesson. Then a shootout is up next in broad daylight with Seagal taking on up to 6 offenders. Seagal fires 50 rounds before he actually hits any of the bad guys who were no more than 20 feet away. No media going mental over this rouge cop, no superiors coming down on Seagal suspending him while an investigation is conducted. Seagal then has a scene in a nightclub, spots a suspect on the opposite side of the dance floor and then proceeds to randomly assault almost every person on the dance floor to get to the suspect which then develops into a foot chase ending with the suspect running down an underground straight corridor chased by Seagal firing another 50 rounds and hitting everything except the suspect. Where are all the police complaints against this cop? Seagal is an expert martial artist, how exactly did the suspect get away from Seagal once Seagal catches him and they have a breif fight? Well because Seagal wrote it that way. There is also another bizarre scene Seagal wrote about a cannibal eating a clown which is just a joke story told to the FBI officer. Was this supposed to be funny?
On to the actual plot which makes little sense, there is a serial killer on the loose, the killer takes a girl a night yet the police put only two detectives on the case. Seagal is manually trying to break the killers code and refuses any help from the FBI agent assigned to the case. Some one should have told Seagal that the FBI have these things called super computers and a special branch of the FBI who's sole purpose is to break codes and there is a good chance it would have easily broken the serial killers code in a very short space of time given it's lack of complexity but instead, each night Seagal sit's at home rejecting the physical advances of his 20 something girlfriend and tries to break the code while yet another innocent girl is taken by the killer, Seagal doesn't seem to care about this at all. The show down with the serial killer in a bar at the end is just ridicules, I will not go into it any further for those who wish to watch the DVD but I'm sure you will notice the 2 innocent people who get shoot and killed because of Seagal. At this point a real cop I'm sure would arrest the serial killer and rush to the innocent civilians caught in the cross fire but not our boy Seagal, he doesn't care that these people just got killed because of him, instead he along with his body double spend the next 5 minutes kicking the cr*p out of the serial killer. Towards the end, the suspect kicked out the 6 story window in the beginning of the film turns up again, this time though our good cop Seagal takes justice into his own hands and murders the suspect in cold blood, I call it cold blooded murder because we all know Seagal is a martial arts expert, expert with weapons and knives and he can never be hit by anyone, this and the fact that Seagal basically tells the suspect, I'm going to kill you now. We need more cops like Seagal. But wait this is not the end. The last 5 minutes of this film make ZERO sense. I'm not even sure that it has anything to do with Kill Switch. All I can say about the last 5 minutes is what the hell?? All I kept thinking was that Seagal basically used his 20 something girlfriend for some purpose that is never explained and then, well you will see what happens. There is nothing likeable about Seagals character in this film and the best part is that Seagal wrote this thinking it was going to be a great film and my fans are going to love me in this. One last comment, how do we know that Seagal is doubled in the fight scenes, excluding the fact that the double looks nothing like Seagal. Well, the body double gets punched, kicked, knocked to the ground, gets hit by chairs, bottles and a few pipes. As we all know, the real Seagal would never allow this to happen to him.
The positives, Jeff King is not that bad a director, the DVD cover is the best Seagal has had for a while and to see the end credits felt like immediate relief from a 2 day throbbing tooth abscess.
Rent before a blind purchase, and if you really have to rent it, remember the tequila!
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