Review of Hard To Kill (1992) by Paul D — 23 Mar 2008

Hard to Kill? More like Hard to Watch! Just another one of Seagal's easy to fall asleep to movies brimming with out of date 90's retro feeling. Oh yeah?!So Seagal... A.K.A: Mason Storm... cue pun, is an undercover cop, uncovers a cunning ploy to act some crooked senator elected.

But wait, oh yes the crooked senator guy, you know... the baddie from Die Hard 2? No? Yeh no one remembers him. Anyway he get's some dirty cop's to go and kill Seagal and his entire family.So Mr Storm ends up in a coma.

.. wakes up seven years later... cuts his hair and don's the exact same waistcoat he wore seven years ago... and goes out for revenge...Exciting stuff right? It would be except it's shit. I've seen better acting in nursery nativities and less inaccuracies too.

For example if you fire a sawn-off shotgun and then stick the barrel in someone's mouth... chances are it would fucking burn! And i'm pretty sure anyone in their right mind could out run a bed-ridden coma patent as he pushes himself around with a broom! Oh not in this movie! I'm pretty sure this movie was directed by a 5 year old idiot!I know I can give these movies stick sometimes.

.. mainly Kickboxer, but it's because I use Kickboxer as my control group, as in its a good movie for the wrong reasons! But this movie doesn't even try. A future echo of all the lazy shit movies Seagal has yet to make.

Kelly LeBrock has no acting talent in this movie and was generally badly cast, the baddie... William Sadler didn't even get a full showdown in what is meant to be your typical action movie. No instead he's hiding in the closet! Hmm.

There are only about 6.5 Fights, 2 shootouts. ...and a whole lot of nothing else to keep you interested either.Funnily enough this didn't get a DVD release in the UK, probably because a certain Mr Akido expert is still trying to keep the fans he has! Or a Miss LeBrock who was brought up in England is ashamed of her OTT English accent.

Pretty poor show all around.