OUT OF REACH (2004)

MORGAN'S RATING

Steven Seagal plays government agent-turned-survivalist William Lancing from Northern Alaska who works on a wildlife refuge and sponsors a young girl named Irina in the international foster program run by Faisal. Lancing uncovers that the foster program is really a human trafficking operation, disguised as Irina's orphanage, financed by honest and good-intentioned Samaritans.

Steven Seagal (William Lancing), Matt Schulze (Faisal), Ida Nowakowska (Irena Morawska), Agnieszka Wagner (Kasia Lato), Krzysztof Pieczynsky, Shawn Lawrence (Shepherd), Robbie Gee (Lewis Morton), Murat Yilmaz (Azimi), Nick Brimble (Mister Elgin), Jan Plazaski (Nikki), Hanna Dunowska, Ola Hamkalo, Frank Hildebrand, Jan Janga-Tomaszewski, Klaudia Jakacka, Katarzyna Roska (UNA Clerk), Maria Mai, Jacek Samojiowicz, Bogdan Szczesniak, Pawel Szczesny, Agnieska Wagner, Katarzyna Walter, Anna Wendzikowska, Witold Wielinski, Miroslaw Zbrojewicz (uncredited).

IT'S A SPLIT SECOND BETWEEN HIT OR MISS.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Po-Chih Leong. WRITERS: Trevor Miller and James Townsend (uncredited). PRODUCERS: James Holt, Frank Hildebrand and Jeanna Polley. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Binh Dang. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Jacek Samojlowicz, Kajetan Kowalski, Steven Seagal and Adam Greenman. LINE PRODUCER: Urszula Wolska. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Alex Heffes. DISTRIBUTOR: Columbia Tri Star Home Entertainment.

QUOTES

[setting a rose on fire] Faisal: Pretty isn't it? But like any rose, a company must cut its thorns.

Faisal: Pain is your friend. Learn to love pain and it'll set you free.

William: Lewis, you're playing a whore's game. You ain't nothing but a whore. Now you know what happens to whores don't you now? Lewis: What? William: Whores always get fucked don't they?

FACTS

RELEASE DATE: July 20th, 2004 (USA) (DVD PREMIERE) BUDGET: $20 million (USA) SHOOTING DATES: August 2003 -- ??? - During pre-production, this film was originally known as The Rescue and The Package. - This is the sixth Steven Seagal film to get a DVD premiere in the United States, following The Patriot (1998), Ticker (2001), The Foreigner (2003), Out for a Kill (2003) and Belly of the Beast (2003).

William: I despise taking human life. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit the fact that I'm gonna enjoy killing YOU slowly.

[William and Faisal are in a stand-off] William: It's my favorite moment in life. Faisal: What's that? William: That's when the predator becomes the prey.

Irena: My friend William, he'll come, you'll see. Faisal: I look forward to meeting him. The sooner, the better.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"Out of Reach finds Seagal slipping back into his pre-Belly of the Beast days with bland action and increased slippiness masked by a thin veneer of Hollywood polish." -- Mark Pollard, Kungfu Cinema

"For a Seagal movie, Out of Reach is surprisingly short on action. There are some parts of action in the beginning, a few more in the middle, but that's about it until the final action set piece..." -- Nixflix.com

"Below average actioner for Steven Seagal, who seems just as bored as the painfully routine premise he is working with here. If you're looking for exciting action scenes and well-staged fights, look elsewhere." -- Morgan Muscat, The Action Kings

"The script is moronic even by Seagal standards...there is only a medium amount of action, all uninspired." -- Vern, Ain't It Cool News

"The worst Steven Seagal movie yet." -- David Cornelius, Amazing Colossal Website