Out of Reach (2004) (V)

Note des utilisateurs:

3.7/10   

Réalisateur:

Po-Chih Leong

Scénariste:

Trevor Miller (writer)

Release Date:

5 novembre 2004 (Romania)

Genre:

Action | Drame | Romance | Thriller

Accroche:

It's a split second between hit or miss.

Plot:

Billy Ray Lancing, a former covert agent turned survivalist, discovers that the foster program he is using to help a young girl is actually a human trafficking network. Lancing heads overseas to find the girl and shut down the operation.

Plot Keywords:

Orphanage | Chess | Brothel | United Nations | Illegal Trafficing

Avis des utilisateurs:

not up to its potential

Ensemble

Steven Seagal	...	William Lansing
Ida Nowakowska	...	Irena Morawska
Agnieszka Wagner	...	Kasia Lato
Matt Schulze	...	Faisal
Krzysztof Pieczynski	...	Ibo
Robbie Gee	...	Lewis Morton
Murat Yilmaz	...	Azimi
Nick Brimble	...	Mister Elgin
Jan Plazalski	...	Nikki
Shawn Lawrence	...	Agent Shepherd
Hanna Dunowska	...	Rosie
Ola Hamkalo	...	Katya
Frank Hildebrandt	...	Postmaster (as Frank Hildebrand)
Klaudia Jakacka	...	Petra
Jan Janga-Tomaszewski	...	Uncle Pawel

Autre(s) titre(s):

Poza zasiegiem (Poland)
The Rescue (USA) (working title)
Le protecteur (France) (TV title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Durée:

Argentina:88 min

Pays:

USA | Poland

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Classification:

Germany:18 | Finland:K-15 | Iceland:16 | Sweden:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | New Zealand:R16 | Philippines:R-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | USA:R

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Old Town, Warsaw, Poland

Company:

Franchise Pictures

Anecdotes:

Steven Seagal's character's last name in Lansing. Steven Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Just before the "sword scene" when Steven kills the top bad guy, they both have guns pointed at each other. When they both decided to put the guns down you can hear the bad guy de-cocks his gun, even though that type of gun has an internal firing pin and wouldn't make that kind of noise.

Guillemet:

William Lancing: [about Irena] This little girl means a lot to me.

not up to its potential

Steven Seagal picks good topics and he takes good positions on them, but this film is like most of his others in failing on the level of craft. I don't know why this keeps happening to someone whose martial arts experience obviously taught him about the importance of precise execution and continuous refinement, but in any case this film is sloppy. Sometimes it's as simple as parallel action whose locations aren't clear, or too-familiar action scenes, or very slow staging of the obvious, like the initial seizure of the children. More importantly, it's careless or shallow thinking about the characters and their relationship to each other: the villains are pure psychopaths, the kids are pure innocence, the trafficking is simple kidnapping from a crooked orphanage - nothing beyond the matinée B-movie level of white/black hats is made concrete. There's something stubborn and unnecessary about Seagal staying on this mediocre level.