From my favorite movies..

Dreadfully Boring

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Seagal's best days are now far behind him, but he's made a niche for himself in the DTV market. FORCE OF EXECUTION, while not one of the better movies he's made, is at least watchable and has some good action to boot. This time around, Seagal is Alexander, a crime boss with a past in government special ops. He runs a southwestern town with an iron fist, to be sure, but backed up with a code of honor. Martial artist Bren Foster plays Hurst, Alexander's chief hit-man and a protégé of sorts. They are joined in the cast by Ving Rhames, an up-and-coming gangster and Danny Trejo as a bar owner with a few tricks up his sleeve. The event that sets the plot in motion is a hit that goes bad, resulting in Hurst's "retirement," and the severe injury of his hands. Meanwhile, Iceman (Rhames) maneuvers around Alexander in order to take control of his territory, climaxing in a showdown between the two gangs. First, the good parts. Seagal is playing a type of character that he doesn't usually play, an antihero of sorts in a movie populated solely with lowlifes. There is also some decent martial arts on display, but mostly from Bren Foster. Seagal is relegated to doing his usual chops and take-downs when he isn't just using firearms. Finally, Ving Rhames gives the best performance in the movie as Iceman, lending credibility to his role as a gangster and delivering some great improvised dialogue. The rest is mediocre at best. The basic plot is paper thin, and not enough time is spent developing the three main characters. Most of the dialogue scenes are corny discussions about honor and respect, tough talking without any purpose other than to make the characters seem tougher. As far as the technical aspects go, director Keoni Waxman opts for the currently in-vogue shaky-cam, and some of the editing choices obscure the action. While this was most likely to conceal stunt doubles in some shots, it makes the action hard to follow in places, especially with Seagal. Fortunately for Bren Foster, they pulled back the camera a little bit so you can see him work. Overall this should be enough to placate Seagal fans, but everyone else should just stay away.

If you decide to watch a Steven Seagal movie these latest years, you know what to expect. There is still a couple guys like me that find his movies entertaining, and then there is your typical dude who watch them just to bash them.Surprisingly tough, even tough Seagal has decent screen time and a decent role, the real star is much more the young Bren Foster. This guy was really cool to see on screen. He may not have the biggest presence in term of acting but his martial art remind of the ones of Scott Adkins and Matt Mullins. Really cool to see and i hope to see more of him. On supporting side you have Ving Rhymes and Danny Trejo, who does there things as usual. Trejo is always likable no matter what he plays in.Now where i did had a problem with the movie is the story. Hurst fail a hit that was extremely risky and bizarre from the start, and for that Alexander(Seagal) let him get tortured by this black dude. If you have been close with somebody for 15 years, would you let somebody else demolish him for a bad mistake? He didn't rat out, he didn't abandoned, he did the hit, and somebody else gave him a false info. I was extremely mad at this point and for me the bad guy was Seagal, he should had been the one Hurst got after. But the movie turned weirdly and in the end Hurst got back with Alexander and helped him out. This for me was hard to swallow. Not only the beating was extreme, but on top of that he remained handicapped from it... And all this time Seagal could had him get healed, but he waited until he needed him again.So even tough i kinda got in the story and rooted for Hurst, i didn't like the other side of it and i was hoping it would be your typical revenge flick with a Hurst vs Alexander fight at the end, and it was not the case.But the bottom line is, Steven Seagal, or mostly his stunt double, does his things, Foster steal the show for the fight scene he is in, and i would had like to see more of him really. A decent movie, i would give it 6.5 which put it at 7/10 here on IMDb. If Seagal bring more young martial art actors in his movies, i think he could make some very decent ones. It would be great for him to pass the torch if i can say and at the same time have still a presence in the movie to sell the fact he is on the cover and get top billing.

I've looked at a lot of reviews for 'Force of Execution' and they would have you believe that it's an absolute classic. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting Shakespeare. I knew I'd be letting myself in for a B-movie with stars from yesteryear, however, all I got was a pretty sub-standard affair.The story is all over the place with one scene after the next depicting one gangland hit after the next. Steven Segal phones in his performance and Ving Rhames just grunts all the way through it (and don't get me started on his 'fighting abilities'!).In short, this story is a mess. The settings chop and change from one location to another, never really linking together the overall tale, let alone leaving any space for the audience to care about any of the one-dimensional characters.Yes, I know it's a B-movie, but I was hoping for it to be entertaining. Sadly, this one's better left off everyone concerned's C.V.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

Giving it a 5/10 due to Bren Foster alone. Everything else was cliché, boring, and you can see Hollywood trying so hard to keep Steven S. and Ving R. alive...for whatever reason. I'm shocked at the $10million budget IMDb reports as well. I'm kinda shocked to see that Gillie Da Kid (Nasir Fard or Farder) has no credits listed on IMDb. He was Ving R. right hand man in prison and on the streets....useless though he may be in the movie as he couldn't fight. But I'm a Philly native and I like to see people from my city do good. Bren Foster kept this movie alive for me...not with his acting...but with his martial arts. He's amazing. Got tired of him screaming "OY! OY! OY!" with every punch but it was easy to ignore knowing he's really doing these fight scenes.