If you like him throwing people around and subduing villains this gets my thumbs up!!

'Kill Switch' is a masterpiece of B cinema, written by Seagal, who gathered everything he has found enjoyable in the trade, from the '70s vigilantes to the '90 thrillers about cereal killers, and even to a legendary scene from '9 ½ Weeks', and all is craftily directed, and awesomely free of any schmaltz, and it has to be one of Seagal's best movies, perhaps his very best, and one of the coolest action thrillers as well, rewarding and encouraging and uplifting, in the line of Widmark, Eastwood, Wayne, Bronson; it's a rip-off of 'The Silence …', 'Seven', even '9 ½ Weeks', not to mention the '70s movies about vigilantes, punisher, unorthodox policemen, and everything has been ripped off (and sometimes reverted, like the idea of a young and bright FBI agent) with a very sure taste and feel for how it works; the two cereal killers, Lazerus and Billy Joe, are rightly uncanny, as are most of the locations and settings, and so many of the scenes are delightful, like the one in the library, or later Jacob chasing Lazerus through the building. This is the kind of movie that Willis and Rourke deserved.The cast deserves praise: Isaac Hayes, Holly Dignard, the girl from the library.This is exploitation by people who know their trade, a movie to boost your trust in the genre, and approval of it. The taste is flawless.Again, think of all the schmaltz we have been spared of, like Jacob teaming up with Frankie, or being tender to his girlfriend. The one-liners are pithy and strong.Somebody wrote that most of Lazerus' deeds involve young women; it's untrue, the case in recapitulated by the coroner, who mentions three dead men, and three women. The scene is in Lazerus' barn, when Frankie calls his name, had a certain resonance.

Kill Switch is set in Memphis where a serial killer known as the 'Grifter' has struck four times in a month, his latest victim being a prostitute named Jessica (Holly Eglington) who has been found brutally beaten to death. Veteran homicide detective Jacob King (producer & writer Steven Seagal) is on the case, the FBI send in agent Frankie Miller (Holly Dignard) to assist & oversee the investigation. Each victim has had strange astrological marks carved into their skin & Jacob is convinced it's some sort of coed or message that he needs to break. Meanwhile a killer named Billy Joe Hill (Mark Collie) has been released after a legal appeal & sets out to take revenge on Jacob who put him away, now with two cold blooded killers on the loose Jacob must use all his experience to stop them...This American & Canadian co-production was directed by Jeff King & despite getting a universal trouncing on the IMDb I thought Kill Switch was one of Seagal's better more recent attempts at trying to make a film, sure it can't come close to Under Siege (1992) but it's a hell of an improvement on crap like Attack Force (2006). Also written by Seagal I assume Kill Switch was meant as some sort of dark gritty serial killer thriller in the vein of Se7en (1995) & while it doesn't even come close to that I did quite like the story about a tough cop with a troubled past hunting down two serial killers. Seagal struts his way through the film & beats up just about everyone he meets, there's no real need to have several extremely violent fights in a serial killer thriller but I guess it's a Seagal film so there has to be some fights. The plot twist about one of the serial killers framing Jacob is underused, the character's are thin & it's not revealed until the very last few minutes that Seagal is actually married with two kids, the prologue which sets up a family tragedy goes nowhere, some of the clues that Seagal follow up & use are tenuous & are boring with no great twist's or turns but as a dark action thriller I thought it was alright. At just over 90 minutes long the pace is alright, there are no long stretches of dull exposition & there are a few good moments here.Again, despite what I am reading here on the IMDb I also think the fight scenes are better than the recent Seagal films with some pretty brutal fights including slashed wrists & throats, people being kicked out of third storey windows, arms & ribs broken with hammers & a nastily sadistic scene in which Seagal knocks a man's teeth out on the edge of a counter as a form of torture. There's not too much shaky hand-held camera crap so you can always see what's happening & while the editing is a little choppy at times I've sat through worse. Besides the fights there isn't that much action other than a shoot-out.With a supposed budget of about $10,000,000 this was set in Mephis but filmed entirely in British Columbia in Canada. The production values are decent enough, it's reasonably well made if you discount the obvious body double for Seagal during some of the fight scenes. The acting isn't great & Seagal mumbles his way through his lines as usual but the rest of the cast are alright, musician Isaac Hayes turns up a few times as a coroner.Kill Switch isn't a great film but it's better than most of the crap from Seagal of late, it's better made with a more brutal & dark tone & even tries to throw in the odd plot twist or two even if they don't amount to much overall. Better than I expected but hardly a classic.

Steven Seagal's best straight-to-video actioneers bristle with wall-to-wall gunfire. They seem almost surreal in their own warped way. Director Jeff King's crime thriller "Kill Switch" qualifies as one of Seagal's best epics since he went straight-to-video. Not only does this Seagal saga boast great action choreography and editing, but also it features two serial killer adversaries. Memphis Detective Jacob King has an iconoclastic attitude. He isn't afraid to dole out punishment when the situation dictates. He divides his time between trying to nab Lazarus, a scruffy-looking white serial killer who whittles astrological symbols into the corpses of his victims, and Billy Roy Hill, a maniac with a knife who loves to slash anybody in sight. Billy Roy is such a lunatic that he buries an explosive device into a hooker's chest and our hero must defuse the bomb. Although it looks like a gritty detective yarn, "Kill Switch" seems like it is far more. The surrealistic aspect of "Kill Switch" is what distinguishes it. The opening scenes about the murder of our hero's twin brother and the concluding scenes where our protagonist arrives at a home to pass out presents to his children and watch his Russian wife strip for him are surrealistic. The fights are brutal but fast moving. "Painkiller Jane" editor Jamie Alain ramps up the fight scenes with his own slashing style. Alain often pushes the scenes farther by repeating shots. One head smashing into a window is not quite as invigorating as the same head getting smashed repeatedly. The fights are so over-the-top that they look like homages to The Three Stooges. The good news is that Seagal penned this puppy. Some of the dialogue will catch your ear. Shrewdly, he pits himself against two serial killers and he has a female FBI agent gunning for his badge. Catching these two killers isn't a cake walk for Seagal. Despite his action packed script, Seagal adopts his funny, pseudo-regional dialect that sounds like he was amusing himself more than the audience.