This September, coming to the blue hexagonal bins stuffed with DVDs marked up at £2, which you stumble over entering Blockbusters... comes All Gunns Blazing, a new project written, directed, produce and conceived by legendary action star, Steven Seagal.
As an ex SEAL Captain, Gunn McSteel cuts a surprisingly gentle image. If you were to shake his hand and stare into his cold eyes, you would see the hardness formed in the lowland swamps of Borneo. Examine his skin closely and you would see the cracks from days spend in a foxhole blasted by the Sharan sands. Yet, McSteel is a man who has settled into a new retired life, that of a simple taxi driver, moving passengers from A to B and imparting some Buddhist wisdom to one and all in peace and harmony with the streets of LA.
On one monumental day though, McSteel finds himself thrust back into the hellish maw of danger and he has to unleash his tremendous powers of hand to hand combat.
Picking up a passenger from the docks, it seems a simple ride to Chinatown. His passenger seems the normal sort, well dressed, polite; but somethign is not right. After the drop, McSteel realises that the well dressed man overpaid and resolves to track him down from clues he picked up during the ride.
What starts as mysterious, turns into a web of intrigue and eventually, McSteel finds his target in an abandoned warehouse where McSteel witnesses him and his crew murder a senator and kidnap her daughter. Before he can intervene, the murderers have fled.
McSteel knows that implausibly he needs to sort this out himself and resolves to track down the punks and serve up a steaming slice of justice.
Thankfully he has the assistance of Candy (played by Davina McCall), his kind-hearted taxi company caller and Slipstream (Eminem), a street rapper well known to McSteel.
This Autumn, when it comes to stopping terrorists punks, you know that Seagal will go down All Gunns Blazing.
Reviews:
The Mirror: 1 Star - A truly strange film, the clues McSteel had to work on were proposterous and why was he so intent on returning $3 in the first place?
The Independent: 5 Stars - Haunting and tragic, uplifting, a film that stirs the very soul and asks the most simple and childish of questions... why?
Script Extract:
McSteel: Yo yo Slipstream, whats up with the flow?
Slipstream: Big daddy whac mac brother...
McSteel: I need to know where a man running north on 4th went, he was wearing a grey suit, 5 10 180 pounds...
Slipstream: Say what bro, your the daddy and thanks for saving my little sisters life... He went to Old McKenzies bar and strip joint... but I didn't say anything and I didn't see anything... Be careful if you go near that place... there are rumours
McSteel: What rumours?
Slipstream: I can't say any more..
McSteel: Catch you on the flipside, stay slippy...
Friday, September 07, 2012
Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Mulitple Hart Attack.....
This summer, the battle is moved from the theatre of war to the theatre of operations.
Steven Seagal plays Dr Jet Hart the finest surgeon of his generation leading a renegade but elite heart transplant team comprising of his trusted assistants, Nurse Bojangles (Pixie Lott) and Nurse Xstrike (Dappy).
When a patient who has undergone some sort of major surgery is found trussed up in Central Park barely alive, it is Harts fast response team who are called into urgent medical action.
What they find when the patient goes under the knife is truly shocking. She has a complex bomb implanted in her chest with a countdown showing that they only have a short time to save her and themselves. Incredibly, news breaks that the patient is also the presidents daughter who was kidnapped just hours earlier from her university campus.
The evil genius behind the plot is none other that Alzam Al Akhbar Ghazi (Jonathan Ross) who is demanding the release of 60 of his Black Death freedom fighters who are incarcerated in Yemeni jails.
Harts team know they only have 23 minutes to perform open chest surgery, save the presidents daughter, defuse the device and gather evidence that allows them to track down Ghazi and take him down using Hart's ex special forces skills.
Hart knows that the hospital administrators will try and tie him up in red tape and that the DA’s office is unlikely to want him and his team pursuing Ghazi with a range of high powered weapons. Thankfully, he also knows that the president will back up his old special forces buddy and so this summer, when the Hart attacks, you’d better be ready.
Quotes
Hospital Chief Nixon: Goddamn it Dr Hart, you’re performing a cardiopulmonary bypass using a Bic biro, a straw and a sharpened stick in the Hospital car park…. You cannot cut this many corners Hart
Hart: Goddamn it chief – My team and I get results…. Some kids might get shot in the face but I ain’t gonna lose the presidents daughter, not on my watch.....
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Ghazi: (gun jams) OK Hart, let’s sort this out… (both men draw knifes, Hart’s is a scapel)
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Hart: Hold on Bojanles, these wires have a complex reverse polarity switch and the tactile pressure sensor is unusual... I've seen this bomb making before, it's smart... very smart.... cut the green one…
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President: Dr Hart, I’m relying on you old buddy and so are the American people. Remember that time we drank tequila as the sun rose over the DMZ…
Dr Hart: Don’t worry about sweet Mary Anne Mr President, she is in safe hands
Reviews
Shropshire Chronicle: The film probably tried to hard, it was confusing, Dr Hart seemed to be the only resource the president had to fight these international terrorists as he didn't trust the FBI or CIA?
The Star: Action, action, action, explosions and action… awesome! 5 stars.
Steven Seagal plays Dr Jet Hart the finest surgeon of his generation leading a renegade but elite heart transplant team comprising of his trusted assistants, Nurse Bojangles (Pixie Lott) and Nurse Xstrike (Dappy).
When a patient who has undergone some sort of major surgery is found trussed up in Central Park barely alive, it is Harts fast response team who are called into urgent medical action.
What they find when the patient goes under the knife is truly shocking. She has a complex bomb implanted in her chest with a countdown showing that they only have a short time to save her and themselves. Incredibly, news breaks that the patient is also the presidents daughter who was kidnapped just hours earlier from her university campus.
The evil genius behind the plot is none other that Alzam Al Akhbar Ghazi (Jonathan Ross) who is demanding the release of 60 of his Black Death freedom fighters who are incarcerated in Yemeni jails.
Harts team know they only have 23 minutes to perform open chest surgery, save the presidents daughter, defuse the device and gather evidence that allows them to track down Ghazi and take him down using Hart's ex special forces skills.
Hart knows that the hospital administrators will try and tie him up in red tape and that the DA’s office is unlikely to want him and his team pursuing Ghazi with a range of high powered weapons. Thankfully, he also knows that the president will back up his old special forces buddy and so this summer, when the Hart attacks, you’d better be ready.
Quotes
Hospital Chief Nixon: Goddamn it Dr Hart, you’re performing a cardiopulmonary bypass using a Bic biro, a straw and a sharpened stick in the Hospital car park…. You cannot cut this many corners Hart
Hart: Goddamn it chief – My team and I get results…. Some kids might get shot in the face but I ain’t gonna lose the presidents daughter, not on my watch.....
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Ghazi: (gun jams) OK Hart, let’s sort this out… (both men draw knifes, Hart’s is a scapel)
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Hart: Hold on Bojanles, these wires have a complex reverse polarity switch and the tactile pressure sensor is unusual... I've seen this bomb making before, it's smart... very smart.... cut the green one…
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President: Dr Hart, I’m relying on you old buddy and so are the American people. Remember that time we drank tequila as the sun rose over the DMZ…
Dr Hart: Don’t worry about sweet Mary Anne Mr President, she is in safe hands
Reviews
Shropshire Chronicle: The film probably tried to hard, it was confusing, Dr Hart seemed to be the only resource the president had to fight these international terrorists as he didn't trust the FBI or CIA?
The Star: Action, action, action, explosions and action… awesome! 5 stars.
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Ticket to Fight
In this springs WHSmiths bargain bin DVD blockbuster, Steven Seagal plays Lt Col Daniel Strikedown, a special forces trainer who also works as a ticket inspector on the East coast mainline.
Trouble starts for Strikedown when some punks intent on drinking and causing disruption board the train and are not responding to polite request. Things escalate though when it turns out that the group are not just a group of drunk punks but actually a terrorist cell and they plan on activating a dirty bomb in New York while travelling on the train.
What they don't know is that their ticket inspector is on to them and plans on taking them down one punch ata time.
Thankfully for Strikedown, he also has his colleagues Princess (Katie Perry) and Slipstream (Rapper Doubleshot) along for the ride.
Trouble starts for Strikedown when some punks intent on drinking and causing disruption board the train and are not responding to polite request. Things escalate though when it turns out that the group are not just a group of drunk punks but actually a terrorist cell and they plan on activating a dirty bomb in New York while travelling on the train.
What they don't know is that their ticket inspector is on to them and plans on taking them down one punch ata time.
Thankfully for Strikedown, he also has his colleagues Princess (Katie Perry) and Slipstream (Rapper Doubleshot) along for the ride.
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Furious Friendly Fire
Steven Seagal plays his first drama role in Furious Friendly Fire, as Stern Winnerman - a retired army officer who has faced the harsh reality of Afghanistan.
Whilst serving his beautiful and courageous country (where a child can get a beer and a gun for a buck o' five); Stern sees his son Oscar (played by Mario Balotelli) killed during a training operation when live ammo is used. Oscar's death is covered up and Stern faces a concrete wall of red tape to find the truth. His wife (Played by Helen Mirren) disagrees with Stern, but is she hiding more than just saddness for the loss of her son?
Furious Friendly Fire features fantastic performances from Freddy Flintoff and that kid from Fast and Furious 5.
Swapping the gritty backstreets for the courtroom, and no-good punks for legally filed documents; Seagal dials up the acting as he fights conspiracy, justice, more conspiracy and a bit more justice.
From the Director of White Chicks, and the producer of Starship Troopers 8 (yes, they made more than one of them).
Coming to a free Netflix download near you in May.
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