Urban Justice

Movies in which Little Stevie (not so little these days) interacts with people of color are essentially their own genre. This did not disappoint--ol' Steve can't resist the urge to affect an "urban" accent when speaking to any of the non-white characters in this movie. In typical Seagal style, he murders and maims many young men unnecessarily. And if you were wondering--yes, OF COURSE he hits people in the nuts--that's his signature move. Near the end, he makes a big point of sparing the life of a criminal because he realizes he is not the real enemy. Unfortunately, he realizes this only after murdering countless of this man's underlings who were all less guilty than the man whose life is spared. The Danny Trejo cameo was clearly just there so that Seagal could point out that the two of them are not so different. While I'm sure Little Stevie truly believes this, he is objectively very wrong. Whereas Trejo is a prolific performer whose 50+ years of sobriety and work within the recovery community are an inspiration, Seagal is the all of the following: a self-absorbed fake martial artist conman whose career was started with mob money; an alleged sex offender; a man who falsely claims to have been a Navy Seal while being a poor swimmer; a man who carries his on-screen racism into his former real-life "police duties"; a man who once drove a tank through another man's fence and killed a bunch of chickens and a dog in front of the man's child; a fugitive currently living out his worst years in Russia because he thinks war criminal Vladimir Putin (if you haven't seen the video of Seagal putting on a bizarre Russian accent to still mispronounce Putin's name--you're missing out) is a super chill dude. 5 stars. I'll probably never watch this again because there are like 10 other Seagal movies that are indistinguishable from this one, but it was time well spent.

Like most of you reading this review, I am a dedicated Seagal fan who has watched every one of those heinously awful direct-to-DVD things he's been making for the last five years, desperately hoping the newest movie would finally be THE ONE to usher in an entirely new Seagal era. I have loyally watched each film, disappointed to new lows every single time, sighing with disbelief yet also wanting to believe: "One day...one day he'll finally make a great movie again."Granted, Urban Justice in not a great movie, and I hesitate to call it even a good movie, but compared with those bewildering grade Z letdowns of the last five years where the entire movie should have been left on the cutting room floor, Urban Justice is practically Oscar material.For one thing, Seagal is actually acting in this one. You can see he's actually TRYING, for a change, to make a movie, instead of standing around like a cardboard cutout. You can actually discern some of his personality instead of those flatline performances he's been giving, especially in the first fight scene where he starts to back away from his attackers while saying, "I'm getting scared...I'm getting scarrrred..." It's actually funny, and THEN - we finally see the first real Seagal fight in five years. It's brief, but it's good - and whoever thought we'd see him kick his foot higher than his head again? That's right, and it's no stunt double or trick of the camera. I was so shocked at this simple return to athleticism I had to put the movie in my DVD ROM and study it, frame by frame, just to make sure I wasn't being fooled. Steven Seagal is back in action.Speaking of the action, most of the fights are fairly brief, but we are finally treated to a longer scene at the end, where we actually see Sensei using some genuine Aikido again.The story is not the strongest, but at least is a progression of related events leading to a climax instead of the incoherent mess we've been dished out with any post-Half Past Dead release. All of the supporting characters can act; this isn't another outing where you spend more time gagging yourself over the horrible acting, which is just yet one more distraction in an already horrible movie. No, watching Urban Justice was... well, like watching a "real" movie. And at this point, with all the letdowns we've been given during the last five years, this movie is the one I've been asking for to get past the crap and back on track to more great Seagal movies.To any fellow fan, I say: Watch this movie. It is not like those other disappointments we've had to endure.

Steven Sagal is one of my favorite past time actors!

Overall it is a good movie, only if you're a Segal fan. It's not his best one, but worth watching.

I often watch many movies, which I was looking to watch on one of my channels on my ROKU; instead, I had to buy it to watch it. Now, I can watch it anytime that I want to.

After sitting through recent Seagal DTV movies like the abysmal Attack Force, I was understandably wary of watching this movie. The more I watched Seagal's recent output the more convinced I was that he just wasn't interested in making a good movie anymore. I was fed up with seeing movies that featured frequent use of body doubles and his voice being looped by other actors. It was after reading some positive comments posted online by the director of this film that made me look forward to seeing it. And I'm glad I did because it is the best film Steven has made since Exit Wounds.There's not much of a story...Seagal plays a man who is out to get revenge on the person who killed his son. And that's all the story you expect from an action/revenge flick like this one. What makes this film so watchable is Seagal himself. He's back to doing his own fight scenes and there's no looped dialogue. He demonstrates that he still has what it takes in the fight scenes and his performance is decent enough. There's not much characterisation and it's not really required...he's more of a force of nature, a man who has a single objective and he won't stop until it's achieved.The film is well shot and the supporting actors are all fine, especially Eddie Griffin as a gang leader who's obviously watched Scarface too many times.As for the DVD presentation, no special features and the picture is a little dark but that was the directors intention based on comments he has made elsewhere. Is it worth buying? If you're a Seagal fan or even if you just want an old school action movie, this is definitely worth getting.

A great deal film

Tutto perfetto

it,s nice to see seagul kick gangster ass cause this is just that taking out parasites a modern day death wish 3

great

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