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Urban Justice
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List Price: $19.94
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Steven Seagal, Eddie Griffin, Carmen Serano, Cory Hart, Liezl Carstens
Directed By: Don E. FauntLeRoy
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SEAGAL,STEVEN
EAN: 0043396190788
Format: AC-3
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2007-11-13
Running Time: 96
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 13-NOV-2007
Media Type: DVD
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Summary: (2.5 STARS) Better Than His Direct-to-Video Films, But Still Not Great
Comment: Some say Don E. FauntLeRoy's 2007 action film "Urban Justice" is a comeback for Steven Seagal. The fact is, it is, and it is not. It depends on what you expect from this violent but solid action film. If you are looking for some action-packed, big budget film like "Under Siege," you will be disappointed. Still, after watching a string of terrible films (especially "Attack Force" and "Flight of Fury"), "Urban Justice" is surprisingly entertaining.
Steven Seagal is "Simon Ballister" whose son (a good police officer) has been recently killed. We don't know much about Simon, but we know he is unstoppable one-man army. Nobody should mess with Simon who insists he wants only the shooter, not the one who ordered the killing while breaking bones and snapping necks of every guy who stands in his way.
I know how simple and ridiculous this story could be, but ridiculous as it is, simple story worked in his earlier films like "Marked for Death." Perhaps Seagal has realized that too. He stopped talking about conservation of natural environment or preaching the philosophy of Zen. Instead our laconic, wooden-faced hero is given a chance or two to be humorous. Don't miss one scene, where Seagal's Simon reveals the secret about how he mastered martial arts.
"Urban Justice" is a low-budget B-action film slightly better than average direct-to-video films. There is one decent car chase and several shoot-outs, but some scenes are too dark, and martial arts action scenes are all made with choppy editing faster than Seagal's punches. The camera, often inexplicably lopsided, also fails to show what is really going on. This is not a great film, but much better than his recent direct-to-video flicks.
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Summary: Seagal moving in the right direction
Comment: After the truly awful direct-to-dvd films that Seagal has produced in recent years, he has finally given fans a decent film. I'll stop short of calling it a comeback, but hope that it's the start of some better quality productions. There are no surprises in this plot. As usual Seagal is some sort of mysterious guy with some sort of secret background that gives him fighting and weapons skills as well as experience in high-tech surveillance. While nowhere near Oscar standard, the acting was better than in previous Seagal films. Also improved was the general film and production quality. Recent Seagal films have suffered from terrible sound and picture quality. Another improvement is Seagal's speaking. In his last several films Seagal often mumbled his lines. Finally I appreciated the lack of spiritual and metaphysical mumbo jumbo that Seagal has tried to incorporate into recent films. Urban Justice has some decent action/fighting scenes. While the fighting scenes still are not as good as the Above the Law/Out for Justice days, they are also improved over recent years. I really hated the super slow motion then sped up fight sequence of recent years. The scenes in Urban Justice are more realistic and appear to be filmed at normal speed. I've rated Urban Justice 3 stars. It's far from his best film but equally far from his worst.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I LIKE STEVEN'S FILM!!!
Comment: I like Steven Seagal's movies and he was great actor. This movie was making another his performance. His acting was very excellent and his voice was good too. The story was good. My favorite star.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice return attempt
Comment: Under Siege this isn't. But for a low budget direct to video movie it isn't bad either. Seagal could stand to lay off the Ho-Ho's for awhile and get a gym membership, but if you can admit this isn't the same Seagal you saw twenty years ago, it's a good movie.
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Summary: Salvaged.....
Comment: Surprise! Steven Seagal is back after umpteen amounts of
low-budget foreign embarrassments, which almost single-handedly
destroyed an Aikido master's career. Honestly, I rented this movie
on a whim; a sure-fire answer to my craving for comedy relief as
many of his latest flicks have been. I did laugh, but not at the
story or horrid acting as I thought I would, but at the over
the top Tupac-ish role of Eddie Griffin. When Seagal isn't
performing violent chiropractic methods on-screen, Eddie Griffin
is shining and entertaining us as the film's animated villain.
Though the plot is pretty basic and cliche for Seagal, he nonetheless
provides us a with a great mysterious-man-out-for-revenge 90 minute film, which, as we all know, is Seagal's forte. Steven confidently enters the hood as though he's always resided there and begins dispatching thugs as violently as possible while searching for his son's killer. And I don't mean with the use of an in-shape stunt double, but by Steven himself... that's right, and you can actually see what is taking place during the hand-to-hand. As usual, arms get twisted into pretzels, cartilidge becomes shattered, bodies get hurled through and into walls and objects, and countless testicles get crushed and liquified (I think I counted one man's genitalia being kicked about 10 times). And not to worry, there's plenty of gun-play; people get shot so violently that massive amounts of blood spurt out in all directions that at times it looks a paint-fight broke out at Sherwin Williams. This film reminded me of Seagal's prime, when he created such excessively violent films such as Marked for Death and Out for Justice. Regardless of it being a DTV, I found Urban Justice to fit the bill in the action department. It's as though the 7th degree Aikido master was grudgingly making those film's overseas, and was delighted to be back making an American film... well, it shows. Keep up the steam!
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