Reality Checks

Hollywood ka Mithun - Steven Seagal

I just saw one more Steven "Seagull" movie – 'Out of Reach'. It was one more classic in his already no story-useless action-God knows why i watched it-list. Dont know why I am describing the story when there ain’t. The story line revolves around how one man fights against the entire human trafficking industry. In the movie, he protects a small girl, his pen friend (not explained how he knew her) from getting into human trafficking. The girl gets kidnapped and he follows the bad man to get her out. The little girl keeps on leaving some clues in some code language (which she learn in letters only sent by our hero). But director never understood the magnanimity of Steven, I mean he is Steven duh!, why the hell he will be needing clues to find out the bad people. He just has to guide a taxi to reach them, be it Turkish Embassy or secret vestibule of that scoundrel. So, as expected Steven never used any of the clues left to find them. Instead the audience was uniquely witnessed to his fine computer hacking skills (irrespective of him being in the jungles since ages), charm (such a rugged head expressions) and fine martial art (even when just movement of such a flabby body seems tricky). In between, he also tangles across a probable love interest (who I think got disinterested after knowing our hero’s age), who helps her in 3 minutes of shoot out. Now again director thought giving guns to our hero will help him kill the enemies, but alas, out hero just need hands to kill all of them. Ain’t it a powerful clench, much stronger than our Dharam Ji or his son Sunny Ji. So our hero ji find the leads of world’s largest drug trafficking network (but just one click of computer), finds the involved company in 10 secs( from the address book of some 1000 ppl), finds the lead conspirator (by just following one random car) and kills all of them by bare hands (you still have any doubt !).

So, the more I watched the movie, the more believed that Steven is just blindly following our Mithun Da. I mean no story, no screen play (one fighting scene followed by another only), heroines half the age or less only, the same style of slaughtering the conspirators by himself, knowing all the bad people before entering the crime scene, busting all the hide outs without opening the map and killing all the villains without using a bullet.
But one thing he lacked which our Mithun Da has:- the killing dialogues, delightful cast( Ibu Hathela, Lambu Atta, Chutiya Pathan), the same protecting the humanity nature, the all so revered song-dance-fight routine (though lately song and dance have gone more minuscule (Mithun Da started acting his age in late 50s). Long Live Mithun Da and shame on Steven for copying him!

# posted by Sam @ 5:30 PM