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I had been watching a lot of Steven Seagal film reviews on Youtube. They were not good film reviews, but mostly just highlighting how lazy, nonsensical and bizarre his films are. After some Googling, I found that this is a film that almost perfectly captures that style of filmmaking. I had to give it a shot to see if Seagal's recent work is as bad as they say it is. Also note that not only does Steven Seagal star in this, he also wrote it, so it is truly his creation.

In short, yes, this movie is hilariously bad and filled with things that are just utterly bizarre. But if you want to watch an example of how hilariously bad filmmaking can get, then this is not a bad candidate.

Lets see, where do I even start (spoilers incoming).

The basic plot is that Steven Seagal is a hot shot (there are several scenes where other characters praise how awesome Seagal's character is) Memphis detective on the trail of two unconnected serial killers who like to kill beautiful young women. Yes you read that correctly, the film has two parallel but completely unconnected storylines. At no point do the two serial killer storylines in any way interact with one another. I think the only reason there were two of these put into the film was because with just one of them, there wasn't enough material to drag this out into a standard length 90-ish minute feature, so the writer (Seagal himself) just thought that lets just copy and paste the same storyline a second time into the film, with some modifications.

Seagal's character is one who in real life would be fired from the police on day 1. Every place he goes to, he starts to seemingly arbitrarily and with no justification just beating up or shooting people. People who have not done any crimes or endangered anyone, people who he's not even sure are the ones he's after, he just starts beating them up for no reason at all.

The production quality is decent at times, but then at others is a complete joke. The audio quality wavers up and down consistently, where characters in the exact same location are perfectly audible in one scene, and then the camera cuts to a different angle and you can barely understand anything at all. This isn't helped by Steven Seagal's insistence that he speak only in a mumbling fashion, and for some reason insists on doing an accent like he's African American which is just so bizarre. That's if he speaks himself at all, because large parts of Seagal's dialogue are dubbed over by someone else. And not just one person, there seem to be multiple voice actors jumping in and out of the film reading certain lines for him.

In fact Seagal's laziness isn't confined to speaking lines. The use of body doubles that look nothing like him for scenes that really don't need body doubles at all just adds more unintended hilarity to the movie. His laziness is also evident in the script, where numerous things that happen seem to do so for no reason, many things aren't explained at all or it seems like Seagal had an idea for why A leads to B, but it remained in his head and didn't make it into the script, leaving the viewer scratching their head as to why something happened.

The cherry on the cake is the ending. After the two serial killers are aprehended by Seagal's character, you'd think the movie would end, right? Nope. We then get a scene where he arrives at some mansion in what is presumably Eastern Europe or Russia with a luxury SUV, to meet his model-esque wife and two children (plus a nanny he's eyeing up). Leaving aside the question of how he manages to fund this expensive parallel life and family on the salary of a mid-level policeman, the entire thing has no connection whatsoever to the rest of the film. Like there was zero reason for it to be included, and zero things leading up to it. In fact the character had a girlfriend in Memphis as well, on top of this second family.

This hopefully gives you a flavour of the calibre of high quality filmmaking that Steven Seagal has been busy with these past years. I did get a lot of good laughs out of this film, but they were not intended as the movie takes itself very seriously.

A showcase of truly bizarre, lazy and nonsensical filmmaking. Watch this with your friends and have a good laugh.

OK, so it might require a drop of beer to smooth it down, but Killswitch is the most entertainment i've had in years. From the first time Segal opens his mouth its just laugh a minute hilarity for however long it went on for. I have no idea what accent he is trying to pull off, but it fails in comedy fashion, most of the time you cant understand what he is saying, but that just makes it better! I'm not really sure there is any plot, I actually think Segal just plays some weirdo no one understands so they give him a big fake case to solve to keep him out of the way of real police business. I guess its a bit like Se7en but with a more slapstick approach. The fights are hilarious, just shots of segal looking vacant, then a body double in a wig shot from behind, then another (same) shot of Segal. We counted 26 re-uses of the same shot in one of the fights at the end which forced us to pause the film for fear of death by laughter.

Im still having trouble working out who segal plays in this movie and the many flashbacks have no relevance on the film at all and are never explained, which just makes them better! There's just so much gold in this film! Why everyone in the film hate women? Who is the random FBI expert who turns up to help the case though admits she only ever worked on one homicide ever? where does segal get his knowledge of astrology from? why does he live in the biggest apartment ever? Who is that woman he lives with? what does his partner do at all in the whole movie? why does the murderer commit any of the crimes? and the ending!!!! WOW! Forget the sixth sense, you did NOT see this coming! trust me, in the 'so bad its good' stakes, this takes some beating 10/10

Not the worst movie I've ever seen, but close! And compared to Under Siege 1 & 2, this was a real bomb. How can someone with martial arts talents stoop so low as to fabricate scenes with micro-editing? I was truly bewildered by the poor quality of the fight scenes. His enemies were beaten way beyond death and yet came up time after time without any injuries begging for more! And what's with that horrible southern accent? He didn't sound anything like a Memphis native. It was as if he was imitating some black dialect that represents the South in his mind. Steer clear of this, and I dare say, any future products from this shell of an actor.

Oh my god, where do I start. I am a big fan of action movies and I am usually a Segal fan. But this movie has to be not only the worst Segal movie but the worst movie of all time. I wish I had read the reviews on here before I paid money to rent it.

His accent was atrocious, the fight scenes consisted of showing him making a face and then showing the back of his stunt double doing the actual fighting, they showed some of the scenes over at least fifty times. I mean how many times do you need to see the same man falling out of the same window.

The ending was totally confusing. It's like they put it in just to show a half naked woman. He leaves Memphis after his girlfriend is killed, goes to another country and suddenly has what I am assuming is a wife and two kids. Then the woman leads him off to the bedroom and she does a strip tease. What was the point? It would have made more sense if they showed him going somewhere else to start over.

If you enjoy horrible movies then this one is for you. As for me I am going to try to forget that I ever saw it.

Steven Seagal is a Memphis homicide detective dealing with a serial killer obsessed with astrology. Also, a psycho bomber is released from prison practically unscathed despite after being tossed out the window of an apartment building, crashing hard into a street. In fact, this guy seems good as new, where most people thrown out a window from such a height, with such brute force, would never walk again..but, not this maniac. Anyway, Seagal must contend with a FBI agent sent down to observe and assist in the investigation regarding the astrology murders.

One of the least Seagal pictures I have seen and his fight scenes are beyond pitiful. It's never more clear than in this movie how uninvolved he is in those scenes where his Jacob King is dueling with bar scum and killers. How a loser like Lazerus(..played by Michael Filipowich), the astrology psychopath, can go on and on and on with King for not one but two fight sequences(..not to mention shootouts where neither man could hit the broad side of a barn)shows how puny Kill Switch is. The serial killer story is generic and familiar, reminiscent of many films that have been done countless times before after Se7en(..the Zodiac influence has contributed to many films of this type over the years). The editing, camera speed, photography, fight choreography, gun fights, are all sub-par and disappointing. And, to top it all off, I don't think Seagal has ever looked as bored as he does here, more so than usual if that could be possible. Mark Collie, as King's ultimate nemesis, Billy Joel Hill, is an effective creep, but Kill Switch has to underwrite his story because of the ongoing Lazerus debacle. After Billy Joel Hill kills his lawyer and two others just after being released(!)he picks up where he left off, with little heat directed his way, due to Lazerus' activity. Isaac Hayes is the Shelby County coroner, Holly Dignard the female FBI agent no one wants around, Chris Thomas King as Seagal's partner, and Karyn Michelle Baltzer who portrays Celine, Jacob's beat cop love-interest eventually kidnapped by Billy Joel. The film also establishes how Jacob is haunted by the murder of his twin brother on their birthday, at an early age, and how this has motivated him as a detective.

Most people are going to laugh, but I enjoyed this latest Seagal film "Kill Switch". Sure, whoever edited this film was color blind as Seagals jacket and weight change mid fight scene. Sure, shots from earlier scenes with Seagal are inserted in the middle of a fight scene to make one think he is actually there doing the fighting (horrible when you notice it). However, the concept of a simple story (Memphis detective tracking 2 serial killers) was a great idea by Seagal. It sets up fight scene after fight scene which is what his fans want. The fight scenes are brutal, the flash, quick cut style can be great if used properly-here it is overused...most likely to compensate for Seagal's lack of involvement. The double, triple, quadruple takes on the punches with minimal blood and bruising is also a let down. However, there are some positives (the clown story "does this taste funny to you?") is terrific. I think the overall concept of what Seagal wanted to do with this film is what every Seagal fan wanted. The problem is the low budget, lack of re-shoots with Seagal hurt a lot of his "D.T.V" releases and I have to believe it has to do with his contract. The first 10 minutes of the film are good followed by a bad 15 minutes. The middle part of the film is decent with a terrific ending (I'm talking before the weird Russian family scene which looks like it might be a part of his upcoming release "Ruslan"). I think if he got a theatrical budget for a concept like this film fans would see different results.