It's become some kind of obsession - I just have to watch every new Steven Seagal movie released, even though I find most of them painfully boring and crappy. As you maybe know, there are about three new direct to DVD actioners starring Seagal a year, and most of them are shoddy, cheap productions shot in Eastern Europe - but it does happen that an entertaining and fun movie is released among the crap. Like URBAN JUSTICE, for example, a flick I found pretty amazing.
    ...And here we have DRIVEN TO KILL, filmed as RUSLAN. Steven Seagal, fat and slightly cross-eyed as usual, is crime novelist Ruslan Drachev. Yep. That's right. He plays a novelist! You ain't seen nuthin' till you've seen Steven Seagal sitting at his desk writing novels.
    Once upon a time, Ruslan was a hitman for the Russian mob in New York. Nowadays he's retired and his daughter is about to get married, so Ruslan has to prepare himself for a wedding and stuff. Problem is, the guy the daughter is about to marry, is the son of Ruslan's old arch enemy; a Russian gangster! Before the wedding, Ruslan's daughter and ex-wife are savagely attacked.
    Man, are they lucky Ruslan is visiting!
    Ruslan gets his gun and start taking out Russian mobsters, blood spurting in all directions. As usual, these days Seagal's martial arts skills are reduced to him just waving his arms, but he spends the main bulk of the running time slaughtering bad guys using different weapons.
    Just like URBAN JUSTICE, this is a pretty okay action flick. Sure, we've seen it all countless times before, but I wasn't bored, and if you like your action extremely violent and brutal - which I do - DRIVEN TO KILL is a safe choice for a night's entertainment along with a couple of beers. Also, it's shot in Canada and not Romania, which is good.
    This is definitely nothing you'll remember the next day, but I could say the same about SURROGATES...