Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10815 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-04-07
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Steven Seagal muscles his way through Pistol Whipped, another brutal action flick. This time Seagal is a boozing, compulsive gambler forced by a mysterious stranger to assassinate mob guys and corrupt cops. Naturally, this makes it hard for him to be a doting father to his adoring young daughter. Pistol Whipped has some twists to its plot, but this is all moot--you either like Steven Seagal or you don't. If you do, this is one of the better of his straight-to-video oeuvre. Seagal's attempt to be tender is laughable, but the story isn't completely predictable, the supporting cast isn't bad (Lance Henriksen, Aliens, brings some elegant menace to the proceedings), and though the martial-arts scenes are brief, they're not as choppily edited as in some of his other movies. If you don't like Steven Seagal, you'll find his bloated, wooden presence as repulsive and hateful as it was in every other movie he's ever made. He has two expressions--squinty and scowly--and they're increasingly difficult to tell apart. His one cinematic quality is a lumbering menace, and for his fans, that seems to be enough. For them, Pistol Whipped has plenty of lumbering and scowling on display. --Bret Fetzer

Synopsis
A fast-paced thriller starring Steven Seagal, PISTOL WHIPPED revolves around a former cop with a history of a bad bets and debts hanging over his head. Near desperation, Matt (Seagal) caves when an ominous character offers to pay off his debts on the condition that Matt perform an assassination of the city's deadliest crime lord.

Customer Reviews

Pistol Whipped
After "Exit Wounds", his latest wide theatrical release, the quality of Seagal's movies have been uneven at best. Sometimes awful. "Urban Justice" broke with the trend and delivered what the fans expected. "Pistol Whipped" does the same, perhaps even more.

Luckily, Joe Halpin, co-writer of such bombs as "Mercenary for Justice" and "Attack Force" seems to have had nothing to do with the script of "Pistol Whipped". Halpin gone seems to mean potentially good movies by real writers. "Pistol Whipped" was, instead, written by JD Zeik, (Ronin).

The movie is not without flaws (some parts of the story, especially those that dealt with Seagal's family problems could have been better developed, but it is entertaining and should please Seagal fans and some casual action/thriller viewers. There are some nice action sequences, including a shootout at a cemetery.

I hope Seagal continues to work with the kind of people he has been working with on his last two movies. I don't want to see another "Attack Force" but I'd be glad to se another "Pistol Whipped".

And the past, will slowly go by
Each time a new Seagal movie is released on DVD, I watch it in the vain hope that it will be at the least better than the last.

Each time there is some disappointment, in Pistol Whipped it is the start and the end where Seagal in slow motion crosses a line of gunfire, turns and fires apistol without looking and without being hit. There is certainly a lot of mirth in the movies.

The sad thing is that I really need to come to terms with the fact that his best days are behind him, as are his best movies, and it is time to find a meaner, leaner martial arts fighter-actor.

Worth a watch but do not expect too much.

Seagal's best release for YEARS...
This is MUCH more like it. Much, much better...

Gone are the attempts to create low-budget, mostly Eastern Europen shot versions of previously successful Seagal Blockbusters (although a few were terrific fun - Submerged, Belly of the Beast, Flight of Fury) and in it's place comes probably Seagal's most credible and coherent film for years...

Off the back of the pretty decent Renegade Justice, this time round we're plunged into the world of crooked cops, gambling debts and revenge, giving Seagal the chance to actually try and act instead of whispering through scenes which only served to bookend the cheapo action sequences, and it's all the better for it.

A decent script and story, better editing and direction, decent fight scenes, no voice dubbing and a more serious attempt to give Seagal's character some depth instead of the usual paper-thin 'Ex-CIA' nonsense result in a big step in the right direction....

Sadly, it's unlikely he'll ever gain a cinema release again, but at least with this and Renegade Justice, he's trying to give core fans something with a bit more gravitas. The next film 'Kill Switch' looks like it'll tread a similar path, so here's hoping...

Great stuff....