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title = "Kill Switch (2008)"
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date = 2021-03-28
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tags = ["movies", "reviews", "steven seagal", "movies:2021", "stars:2"]
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[IMDB Summary](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107859/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3):
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A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial
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killers.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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A movie for and by Steven Seagal. That should say a lot about it.
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The script is, basically, a mess. It shouldn't be, if it focused on a single
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story, but it actually tries to follow up to three different plots: There is a
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serial killer that uses zodiac signs on women; there is a murdered that, for
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some reason, falls from a 3 store tall building, survives and gets out of jail
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(completely healed and with no scars) 3 weeks or so later; and there is this
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FBI agent that wants to figure out the real killer.
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All that in 1h and half.
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But... is it bad? The problem is the lack of focus: Now you're following the
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zodiac killer, now you're seeing the murderer, now you're following the FBI
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agent and some procedural content, now back to the zodiac killer, now to the
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FBI, now some intermission, now the zodiac, now the FBI, now the murdered...
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And there is some serious lack of connection between them -- except the
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detective (the protagonist, Seagal himself), which was the responsible for the
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murderer to fall that 3 store high building and it is going after the zodiac
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killer while dismissing the FBI agent.
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The plots "join" in the very end, by pure force of script, but while the story
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makes all the moves to frame the protagonist, miraculously the serial killer is
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captured -- after being both arms and legs broken by the protagonist, with no
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reprimand -- and admits he was trying to frame the detective. But no worries,
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he managed to disappear completely after killing the murderer, just after
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beating the serial killer, so it is all good.
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Also, it seems he's living with a female cop -- who, for some reason, likes to
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run around the house in silk robes and that's it -- but, when he disappear, he
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goes back to his family -- wife and two kids -- which is never mentioned
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everywhere. This last scene seems really forced, not only 'cause there was no
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mention of said wife and kids while living with another woman, but as soon as
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he gets home, the kids are dismissed and the wife leads him to the bedroom,
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where we can see boobies. I mean, **why**?
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There are also some dubbing by Seagal over the fights, in a "loud whisper" type
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of talk, like he's beating someone with no effort at all. Speaking of the
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beatings, there is one scene when Seagal is beating a thug and punches over and
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over the thug chest area, but you hear something like someone smashing a bag of
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nuts. "Holy cow, he's breaking all the guy ribs!", you think; but no, 2 seconds
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of no beating and the guy is up and throwing -- missing, actually -- punches at
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the detective again. Also, it seems some of those beatings they though "Let's
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put some cameras around the scene, so we can pick different angles and later
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pick the best one", but decided that *all* the angles were the best ones, so
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you get free three-punches-on-different-angles for the price of one.
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(That angle thing went so far that, when Seagal throws the murderer out of the
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window, you see the throw 4 times, all in the different angles, all in
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succession.)
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None of the plots are new, the plots seem put together just to fill movie time,
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there is some bad editing and, well, Seagal acting. Make your own conclusion.
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