Force of Execution

I can’t recall if Steven Seagal and Danny Trejo have ever been in a movie together, but if this is the first one, this is epic…Kinda. Afterall, Trejo never goes out of Style but Seagal has been out of fashion for ages. Plus, Ving Rhames is in it too, thought he’s kinda out of Fashion himself, not as big as his days after his rememberable role in Pulp Fiction. Not even his role as Luther in the Mission: Impossible films is truly keeping him relevant.
Who is this director, Keoni Waxman anyway? He does soooo many flicks with Seagal it’s almost like they are the same dude. He’s got some skills with the camera cause he does tend to get some very good cinematic scenes. He does an opening scene in the mountains that sets a real nice tone.
So not as bad as other films starring fat Steven Seagal, the big man does do some fighting in the film, but it’s more trick photography as Seagal uses editing and multiple angels to do the same move over and over again to stretch out the scene, but that’s OK cause it gets you in the mood.
The mood comes full on with Bren Foster. Not new in the game but it’s only lately that I’ve seen him take a more starring role like he does here. Not the best marshal arts actor I’ve seen by far but in this day and age it gets the job done.
So Seagal plays a criminal, which he’s been doing a lot lately, but technically he is a protagonist simply because the whole film is about criminals. He’s the head of some sort of syndicate and lives by a code of honor, and is enforcer (played by Foster) also lives by it. So when this guy gets set up for messing up a job he takes his fate like man. Thankfully Seagal likes him so much that he will not allow his man to get killed but they take away his Kung Fu skills (some of them anyway) by messing up his hands. Some time later, the man with bad hands gets redemption when Ving Rhames tries to move up the totem pole and the only guy Seagal can trust is his boy who lives by the code.
Trejo plays an OG, who runs a dinner and takes care of Seagal’s lady (cause Seagal needs a hot chick on his arm. I think it’s in his contract). He’s almost like a Mr. Miyagi who helps the kid get his fight back.
The movie has a real Kung Fu style essence with our hero down on his luck and trying to get his mind body and soul back into sink. It’s a generic concept but it has some decent fighting scenes in it.
It’s a winner in the Fat Steven Seagal Library.