Out for a Kill
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Actor: Bruce Wang, Corey Johnson, Michelle Goh, Ozzie Yue, Tom WuBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Out for a Kill
DVD Review: "There is no mirror, there is no dust, there is no darkness. Only the mind is light"
Summary: 2 Stars
I can only conclude that the production of "Out For A Kill" must have been as big of a disaster as the finished movie was. I figure that all e-mail, errand boys, telephones, and bullhorns were out of service during filming, because it's hard to think that there was anything but the barest of communication going on between the writers, director, cast, and editors, each of whom seemingly had their own idea about what kind of film they were making. To break it down, "Out for a Kill" is part detective drama, part Hong Kong action flick, part "Godfather", part The Yakuza, and part Steven Seagal vehicle. Without a doubt, this is one of the most clueless films I have ever seen, and certainly among the worst offerings ol' Steven has put out during his DTV career.
The plot revolves around university professor Robert Burns (Seagal), who is framed by the Chinese mafia for the death of his assistant during an archaeological dig. Caught up in an underworld operation spanning the continents, he promises revenge after his wife is also assassinated, and with two DEA agents (Michelle Goh of Alien Lockdown and Corey Johnson of Universal Soldier: Regeneration) on his tracks, he sets out to take down the heads of the Tong.
While no single thing drags down this film on its own, one of the most damning of faults is the movie's pacing: whether it was scripted that way or just happened to turn out as such, the film alternatively shifts gears, backs up, slams on the brakes, and crashes into walls through the overuse of flashbacks, quick cuts, and the rehashing of footage. While it helps that "Kill" doesn't have as many sub-plots and tangents as several of Seagal's other features, this doesn't save a movie that was seemingly spliced together on a dart board.
Since this an action movie, there's a chance that it might've been salvaged by way of some dynamic fight scenes or car chases...but these, I'm sorry to say, are lacking as well. The action is nothing if not ambitious, though: choreographed by HK Film Award-nominee Chi-Ho Lau (The Killer), you've got Seagal fighting a two-on-one battle against sword-wielding assassin-monks, trading barbs with a monkey fighter who literally scales the walls, and delivering a neat decapitation via flying sword (think Belly of the Beast on a smaller scale, Seagal fans). While all fights are fast-paced, include liberal amounts of wire-fu, and feature Seagal relying only minimally on a stuntman, the lot of these scenes - including shootouts and chases - lack a finesse that would've saved them from looking as sloppy as they do. It's definitely some out-of-the-ordinary stuff for the aikido master, but it's just not shot, edited, or emphasized well enough to make it worthwhile.
A number of other glaring faults continue to bring down the movie: lackluster cinematography (the wide-shot, unmoving camera type), poor acting and dialogue (wife Kata Dobo and turncoat Ray Charleson take the cake), reliance on several amateurish CGI backgrounds, and way too many off-screen voiceovers are all steps on the stairway to doom for this movie. The entire production has a very wannabe-stylish gloss to it, but again, miscommunication appears to have taken place: someone wanted a spy-film overtone with the date and location of each scene typed onto the screen, someone else had a straight-forward kung fu movie in mind, while yet someone else decided to throw in an underground pop soundtrack - all of which made me wonder what the heck I was watching while I did my laundry in front of the TV.
In a word, "Out For A Kill" is messy - more so than any other film that Master Steven has been involved in. While there is some fun to be retained through the muted fights and Seagal's dull-but-straight performance, it quickly evaporates in the presence of overriding production buzzkills that should be beneath anybody setting out to make a movie.
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