Tuesday, March 15, 2022

'Out of Reach' (2004) - Po-Chih Leong.

Sulky, skull-smashing Sensei Seagal hungrily takes on one of his meatiest rolls as the bellicose survivalist Billy Ray Lansing going meathead-to-meathead against the shadowy flesh pedlars who kidnapped his beloved teenaged pen pal Irina (Ida Nowakowska) in director Po-Chih Leong's derivative Eastern European DTV thriller. Armed with an insatiable appetite for bloody retribution, ex-military martial arts misfit, turned rotund good Samaritan Billy Ray waddles manfully to Poland in order to fatally cross swords with mercenary teen totty trafficker Faisal (Matt Schulze), the sleazily textbook B-villain who so cruelly trafficked away his sweetly innocent, cannily cryptogram deciphering protege Irina!

'Out of Reach' has the frequently hypertensive, 'Out of Breath' Seagal bravely body-doubling his inexorable way to the very bottom of the DTV dustbin of celluloid crudity, and it is the soft-bellied, Teflon-haired spiritual savant Seagal's legendary lack of irony, bovine stupidity, insufferable invincibility and his monolithic hubris that makes such a woefully unfashionable actioner like 'Out of Reach' so confoundingly chucklesome! Morbidly mesmerized by its deliciously asinine dialogue, 'blurred flappy-hands' fight scenes, gratuitous gun-play and stupefying sentimentality, Steven Seagal's terminal humility bypass, turgid charisma and clumsily dubbed screen persona has finally ripened to elevate steamy Seagal to being the most pungently odoriferous action zeros of his generation! No triumphantly trashy B-Movie night can ever be truly complete without screening at least one fiendishly formulaic Seagal shoot 'em up! 

'Seagal is the action star with more guts than most!'- Weirdlingwolf.

'Out of Reach' is the kinda vastly sordid sh$t sandwich that only Seagal could stomach in one sitting!' - Goosey Lucy@Buxom Bloodfiends.

'Once again, spam-faced Seagal hungrily scrapes the bottom of the B-Movie barrel to feed his elephantine ego!' - Hominid Nocturnas@Dirty Kunst Video.

'Seagal's DTV action movies have all the inherent feel good factor of a ruptured colostomy bag!' - Tor Bronson@The Heroic Blood Shed. 

 

 


















 

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