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His early movies — Above the Law, Hard to Kill, Marked for Death, Out for Justice — all range from very good to not-so-good, but are his most watchable.
Under Siege is a fun flick, but it has an added boost from a couple other major actors, too. So it's not "just" a Seagal movie.
Executive Decision is a good movie, but that's not really a Seagal movie either because [spoiler] he gets killed off pretty quickly!
I think one of his better/best post-prime movies is Exit Wounds.
The other night, El Rey Theater ran Belly of the Beast, from 2004. It's laughably bad, but worth watching for the OTT "fight" between Seagal and the ladyboy assassin. I won't give away the line he says when the ladyboy gets pissed off and removes "her" bra. The only thing s/he did that didn't involve wires!
As much of a D-bag he ended up being and as cheesy as the majority of his movies were, there are two things that are the real deal with him. His Akido skills and how well he is with firearms. He is also an avid custom 1911 (handgun) collector.
To take what scarabchuck indicated just a little bit further, yes he is big into 1911's more specifically Ed Brown's from what I understand.
I read an article years ago about Steven Seagal, when teaching others to shoot, he does not shoot for bullseyes; instead he teaches to shoot for bullet holes. Steven Seagal believes you should be able to put all of your shot's through the same bullet hole, with no real difference in the size of the bullet hole. When you can do that you have mastered that weapon.
The rest of the article had the writer and Steven Seagal shooting rifle size targets. The author of the article was coming down with some rifles, and the distance from what I understand was about 50 yards or so; and the author could see Steven Seagal shooting at some diamond shaped rifle targets; Steven had shot out the center of the target, the top of the diamond, the left point of the diamond, the right point of the diamond, and the bottom of the diamond with his pistol. The author then indicated "if you can shoot like that, why did I bring down these rifles, Steven Seagal indicated the rifles are for you, the pistols are for me"
I have seen his reality shows where he is a sheriff deputy in Louisiana, but I think his first above the law, hard to kill, and marked for death were all very entertaining. His Aikido skills made his movies unique and different.
His fight against William Forsythe in Out for Justice was memorable, Though it really just a one sided beatdown. Williams clumsy crash into the table was funny actually.
His best was Marked for death against the thugs in the jewlery store.
The bar fight in Out for Justice, the cue ball in the bar towel was just cool. Marked for Death had its moments, so did Hard to Kill. I liked all his earlier stuff, as he utilized his Aikido skills to good effect. The later stuff where he started using wire fighting and the use of the Kung Fu , floating in the air stuff was quite....disappointing, with a complete lack of any realism. Starting with The Glimmer Man. Out for Justice was my favorite with above the law coming in a close second.
I much preferred the movies where he stuck with Aikido. The more recent Kung fu, wire fighting stuff, well, it just sucks.
The one where was sucked out of an airplane within the first 15-20 mins of the movie starting. I never liked him. You never saw him get hit or go down, Hell, even Bruce Lee took a hit. To much ego for me.
He never gets hit or gets hurt it gets a bit old. Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, Jet Lei, all takes a hit & gets hurt.
I guess I like a bit more reality in my fight scenes.
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