Perfect Weapon (2016?) - Steven Seagal

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Currently in pre-production is a Steven Seagal actioner titled Perfect Weapon (no connection to the 1991 Jeff Speakman flick, The Perfect Weapon). According to TFC, the film takes place in the not too distant future and centers on an elite assassin (Seagal) who fails to terminate his target, thus, finds himself on the run from the totalitarian state’s secret government organization that employs him.

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That title, that poster art, that plot....this could well be 'The Raid 2' of 2016!

[Bruce]

Currently in pre-production is a Steven Seagal actioner titled Perfect Weapon (no connection to the 1991 Jeff Speakman flick, The Perfect Weapon). According to TFC, the film takes place in the not too distant future and centers on an elite assassin (Seagal) who fails to terminate his target, thus, finds himself on the run from the totalitarian state’s secret government organization that employs him.

Steven Seagal on the run? Can he even run any more? Not far, even if he's doing his run like a girl bit. Maybe they could hire a running double to work in conjunction with his voice double (if Stevo's been trying to run he'll have even more trouble delivering his own lines, right?). Not saying Seagal should give up action movies all together, maybe he could find a good script about an old gaijin sumo wrestler who comes out of retirement to fight Yakuza boss Sylvester Stallone, something like that. Or he could play 8th degree black belt Elvis Presley in his later years, Seagal is a musician, afterall.

[DrNgor]

The Perfect Weapon (2016) – In the future, the USA is now an Orwellian dystopia known as “The State,” which is led by The Director (Steven Seagal, who spends most of his limited screen time fondling or being fondled by a hot young Japanese girl who could be old enough to be his granddaughter). The Director regularly employs elite assassins to kill anybody whom he feels is a danger to the balance of society. One of them is a bald, Agent 47-esque guy named Axon. During a routine hit, Axon spares his target’s lover on the grounds that she reminds him of a former lover who was assassinated years before. Axon is taken in for reprogramming, but ends up going AWOL and joining the resistance. But things aren’t always what they seem, are they? There is some martial arts here and there, and Seagal is his usual invincible self in his one (short) fight against Axon. There’s a pretty good fight against a guy in a bathroom. Most of the action is gunplay and the violence is particularly strong here. I mean, one guy gets a cattle prod jammed into his mouth which eventually causes his head to explode. There are a few other gory deaths that I’ll leave as a surprise for anyone who might be interested. In the end, the film is just OK, but whatever.