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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Kill Switch (2008)</h1> |
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2021-03-28 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/movies/">#movies</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/steven-seagal/">#steven seagal</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/movies-2021/">#movies:2021</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107859/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3">IMDB Summary</a>: |
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A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial |
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killers.</p> |
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★☆☆☆☆ |
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<p>A movie for and by Steven Seagal. That should say a lot about it.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>All that in 1h and half.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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<p>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, <strong>why</strong>?</p> |
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<p>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 <em>all</em> the angles were the best ones, so |
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you get free three-punches-on-different-angles for the price of one.</p> |
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<p>(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.)</p> |
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<p>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.</p> |
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