Movie Review: Kill Switch
posted October 20, 2009 - 9:57amThe best of Steven Seagal's direct-to-DVD-movies, is URBAN JUSTICE, released a couple of years ago. Maybe it's because Seagal is on North Ameican soil and not in some East European country, maybe it's because it's a classic story about revenge, maybe it's because it's not as damn confusing as the
shot-in-Bulgaria movies usually are, or maybe it's because it's over the top violent and uses the largest squibs in movie history, and nobody in the movie seem to give a damn about Seagal killing off most of the inhabitants in a criminal area of the city. URBAN JUSTICE is amazingly fun.
The NU Image production KILL SWITCH is also filmed on North American soil - meaning Canada. But it's supposed to be Memphis (Seagal has put on a funny and not very convincing accent), where die hard cop Stillwell (Yes! He's a cop! He's usually a cop or an ex soldier) is hunting down a serial killer.
This movie is really funny. Sometimes, it's a downright laugh riot. The movie is not good, but it's entertaining, bloody and violent, and Steven Seagal is as charmless as we have the right to demand. Isaac Hayes appears in what turned out to be one of his lasts roles before he unexpectedly died.
This movie is really funny. Sometimes, it's a downright laugh riot. The movie is not good, but it's entertaining, bloody and violent, and Steven Seagal is as charmless as we have the right to demand. Isaac Hayes appears in what turned out to be one of his lasts roles before he unexpectedly died.
What's interesting is that the movie is released by First Look in the U.S., but by Warner in Europe - in other words, in Europe, Seagal is back with the company that once launched his career back in the late 1980s, and then kicked him out when his name stopped drawing crouds to movie theaters in the 90s.
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