Extended Preview: A DANGEROUS MAN
Added 2022-05-02 19:13:40 +0000 UTCNOTE: CONTAINS BRIEF NUDITY (Thankfully, not Seagal)
Happy Monday, Traxians!
This past Friday we brought you our first-ever riff of a Steven Seagal film, A DANGEROUS MAN! And today, we bring you its extended preview just for Traxians. (The episode of "Talkin' RiffTrax" for this one is right on its heels, so stay tuned!)
Steven Seagal, the Seven Mary Three of 90s action stars, has spent the past twenty years carving out a nice little niche releasing movies shot in countries that no longer exist, to direct-to-video formats which also no longer exist. One of these movies is A Dangerous Man, an oafish slurry of wet roads, attempted catchphrases, squinting has-beens, and far more gratuitous gun violence than you’d expect from a martial artist who also claims to be a devout Buddhist.
Seagal is not as agile as he once was, in the same sense that John F. Kennedy is no longer the great orator he once was. Fortunately, the director is able to use a subtle visual technique known as “cutting every nine frames and shaking the camera around like it’s a can of spray paint.” Usually this means that a stuntman (who’s much more in shape than Seagal and also probably isn’t pals with Vladimir Putin), is forced to hurl themselves across a room and into a bookshelf when Seagal lightly taps them.
Get the full riff here or download this preview here.
Comments
With those hand movements, I kept waiting for Steven Seagal to go: WOO WOO WOO WOO WOO and NYUK NYUK NYUK!
Jeff H Crowther Jr
2022-05-04 22:10:27 +0000 UTCIt's very confusing!
RiffTrax
2022-05-02 20:15:33 +0000 UTCthis makes me so happy after having to spend a weekend with my homophobic idiot uncle in the mid-90s and hearing him proclaim the wonders of Seagal in HARD TO KILL - which we had to watch. Both men are now bloated and easy forgotten...again, makes me happy.
Ackmena
2022-05-02 19:58:39 +0000 UTCI don't get how this prequel leads into Dangerous Men at all.
John Chadwick
2022-05-02 19:46:51 +0000 UTCI miss Seagal like I miss syphilis (if I'd ever had syphilis).
Stephen Peterson
2022-05-02 19:45:29 +0000 UTCSo, she waited 6 years but couldn't be bothered to keep apprised of his case? Leaving him the day before his sentence was to be vacated and his record expunged?
Matt P
2022-05-02 19:43:49 +0000 UTC
