Out for a Kill: One of the least comprehensible of Seagal’s offerings in his “Usedtobe” mini-genre - he used to be a world renowned art thief who became an award-winning archeologist in China by the name of Robert Burns. Running afoul of the Tongs, they murder his assistant and set him up for smuggling charges, so he gets to spend some time in the fine Chinese prison system. Upon his release, the Tongs responsible for his prison stay work to silence him permanently, including killing his wife. So he fights through the Tong, killing the various bosses and their never-ending stream of flunkies located in farflung corners of the globe. From the mid 2000’s, this film is part of the “Fat Era”, as I call it, as he is overweight in every one of the films. Even his hair looks fat. The dialogue is terrible (as are the Chinese translations - I could have sworn he walks into a room and says “hello”, but it’s translated into “a-hole”), the acting is bad (even Corey Johnson, who is usually fairly dependable), the plot is dumb, and the special effects and wirework are equal parts sloppy and atrocious (there is some terrible green screen work here). It’s just as bad as I was expecting it to be. Woodchuck sez, “Godawful”.
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