Movie review: Kill Switch

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