From 6fa34fc1600b7e8d1fb16369fa3f5da13fc70b7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julio Biason Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 08:49:10 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Movie review: Kill Switch --- content/reviews/movies/kill-switch.md | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/reviews/movies/kill-switch.md diff --git a/content/reviews/movies/kill-switch.md b/content/reviews/movies/kill-switch.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5779aa --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/movies/kill-switch.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ ++++ +title = "Kill Switch (2008)" +date = 2021-03-28 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["movies", "reviews", "steven seagal", "movies:2021", "stars:2"] ++++ + +[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. + + + +{{ stars(stars=1) }} + +A movie for and by Steven Seagal. That should say a lot about it. + +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. + +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.) + +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.