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It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Roel Reiné's 'Pistol Whipped' is A Passable Entertainer, that has some arresting moments & hardcore action scenes working on its advantage.'Pistol Whipped' Synopsis: Matt is an elite ex-cop whose life has gone down hill since he was kicked off the Force. After a rough encounter with a mysterious henchman, Matt is brought face to face with his only chance at reclaiming his life and clearing his gambling debt markers.'Pistol Whipped' is fairly entertaining, with some arresting moments making it reach the safe zone. J.D. Zeik's Screenplay is fairly decent. Roel Reiné's Direction has potential. Cinematography, Editing & Art Design, are average. Action-Sequences are very nicely executed.Performance-Wise: Steven Seagal is still kicking-butt, which is obviously good. Lydia Jordan does a fine job. Lance Henriksen has a brief role. Arthur J. Nascarella is decent.On the whole, 'Pistol Whipped' is Passable Stuff.

Mr Seagal is sui generis.You can't judge his movies by the standards you might apply to so - called "proper"Hollywood ones any more than you could compare "Date Movie" to "King Lear". Each has its target audience and crossover is minimal,a situation both are happy with. Within Mr Seagal's somewhat eclectic body of work "Pistol whipped" marks a return to happier times with our hero utilising both of his facial expressions within the length of one movie - a definite improvement over a number of his latter - day performances when he appeared to have been rolled out of a deep - freeze 10 minutes before the cameras started running. He is - of course - still a one man killing machine;this time an ex - cop fitted up by dirty colleagues to hide their own nefarious deeds. As an alcoholic and a stone gambler he neatly fits the profile of a desperate ruthless man in dire need of money and not particularly choosy about the way he earns it. From there on the plot writes itself and will not tax any movie - savvy ten year old. But "Pistol whipped"shows definite signs of life and imagination beyond what has sadly recently been Mr Seagal's norm. The years may have slightly withered his martial arts skills but he can still shoot the head off a matchstick,bless him,although why anyone would want to do so is not absolutely clear to me to be honest.

There are a couple of parts in Pistol Whipped that I enjoyed a bit, but generally I was bored. Considering that most of Seagal's latter works are interchangeable, with little difference between them, perhaps I am just growing tired of seeing the same thing over and over again, but I don't think so. Some of the latter films were watchable. the Keeper, Urban Justice, and Into the Sun were okay. Others like Against the Dark and A Dangerous Man were almost unwatchable. This is pretty bad too. Pistol Whipped begins with an amateurishly written scene which if nothing else is a classic example of over exposition. A Los Angeles priest sits with Seagal in church, and tells him what he already knows about his life. He is divorced, broke, lazy, ex army etc... There are one or two scenes where Seagal hangs out with his daughter (who his ex wife has custody of) Sequences like that are pretty rare in Seagal films and although he is far from capable of acting emotionally, the attempts are noble.The final half hour of the film offers two yawn-provokingly boring scenes of epic gun play. The cutting is too reckless, and the slow-mo (when used) is used badly. Enough said, I've made my point. some of the strait to video releases, are not bad to view if you really wanna work your way through Seagal, but this is definitely not one of them.

Whatever you do, do not waste a single minute of your life on this one. Why a great actor like Lance Henriksen is in this I will never understand. Oh yeah, the money. But is this the best money Lance can make? There has to be a vehicle with a tiny bit of class that would pay Lance the same amount. Shameful. Absolutely shameful. Segal looks like a beached whale. His range is non-existent. Has he ever taken an acting class? Segal should kick my ass for watching this turkey. What a waste of precious time on this earth. I will never get it back. I am scrubbing my eyes with an alcohol dipped toothbrush but no matter how hard I scrub it just doesn't take away my shame.