Nonureva Really Surprised!

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Your Mum As you would expect from a straight-to-DVD effort, there is little in Driven to Kill to lift it from the cesspit. There are however two factors that make this movie unintentionally hilarious:1. Segal does a Russian accent. It's terrible. And very, very funny. 2. Segal's character Ruslan is supposed to be a novelist. It's hard enough believing this meat-fisted lunk can read, let alone write, but Segal has been detached from reality for some time now.As pointed out by one of the previous reviewers, Segal's computer keyboard control is astonishing - and even more impressive than the death-by-gun-barrel-in-the-eye sequence.Is this enough to make the movie good? Hell no, it has Steven Segal in it for a start. But if you've got nothing (and I mean *nothing*) better to do for 90 minutes, this may just about fit the bill.

daworldismine look im not reviewing this movie as a masterpiece so don't let the ten star rating make you think what im reviewing, this as a steven seagal movie and on that basis, this movie deserves ten out of ten all day, first the action here is brutal, i mean brutal, seagal hasent kicked ass like this since the early 90's, plus seagal looks in the best shape he has since 'exit wounds', there is even a scene where seagal is chasing a guy, something we haven't seen since the early 90's,. the point is, seagal is trying his hardest here, and while he hasent got the most convincing Russian accent you've ever heard, you have got to respect him for pulling it off for the whole movie, the storyline is one the best types's for a seagal movvie, REVENGE, and in this it is well and truly served, and this is easily the most voilent steven seagal movie since 'out for justice' and the best, in fact the movie is that good you forgive him for the last few terrible movies he did, but this is a must see action movie i highly recommend

Wizard-8 Recently, I was reading a review of another Steven Seagal movie, and in it the reviewer commented to the effect that it was just the same as his other movies. Watching "Driven To Kill", I got the same feeling. Oh sure, there are a few minor changes, like making Seagal a Russian (which leads to some unintentional hilarity, hearing Seagal's wheezy and pause-filled whisper doing a bogus accent.) But with the rest of the movie, you will see nothing new. Seagal is still fat, and he continues to wear heavy coats to mask his weight, and is mostly filmed from the chest up. (There is a very funny moment when we see him run for several seconds - he can barely do it.) It should probably come as no surprise that there aren't that many martial arts moments here compared to his early films, and they are rapidly edited and filled with shots of what appear to be doubles doing his work. The gun battle scenes are also equally hard to make out as well. The general production values (cinematography, set decoration, etc.) are passable, and that's about all that's positive I can say about this.

jonathanruano Some revenge movies work, such as Bergman's "The Virgin Spring," but "Driven to Kill" does not because the screenplay was simply not ready. The beginning of the film was OK. Our hero Ruslan Drachev (Steven Seagal) is introduced to us as Russian mobster who, even in his advanced age, can attract women with his bad boy image. Seagal does not quite get the Russian accent right and his personality is not as fresh and vibrant as the Russian mobsters in Eastern Promises. But no matter. I also did not mind the fact that it was easy to predict what was going to happen at the wedding. When the title of the movie is "Driven to Kill," we can assume that Ruslan is in for a shock. But when the revenge sequence starts, the film falls apart. To begin with, Steven Seagal's character seemed too cool and composed to be "driven to kill." He did not even appear shocked and overwhelmed with grief after seeing his dead family. Dmitri Chepovetsky as the fiancé, Stepan, did a better job. This was a big problem, because "Driven to Kill" lacked that electricity one feels when you truly believe that the hero desires revenge. But the main problem was the plot itself. There was nothing new, there was no cleverness or wit. The villain was revealed too early on and his motivations for acting in the way he did were utterly absurd. Ruslan also did not want Stepan to follow in his mobster footsteps, which begs the question of why he brought him along for the killing spree in the first place. Finally, far too much film was devoted to Seagal's martial arts skills rather than to plot and character development (perhaps because there was nothing to develop!); and while the fight sequences were interesting on the first two or three occasions, they grew tiresome as the film dragged on. The gun fights were not interesting either and I rather suspect that the shocking scene where the mob boss shoots off his underling's ear was put in there to jolt the audience in order to hold onto their attention. There were some laughs from this movie, such as when Detective Lavastic (Zak Santiago) tried to explain why Ruslan's decision to go on a killing spree was wholly justified, because after all who in law enforcement would ever praise a civilian for going on a killing spree that wipes out 20+ people? But I do not think that scene was meant to be funny, because if the film-makers were that smart, they would have rewritten the entire script. This film also stars Igor Jijikine who is pretty convincing as the villain Mikhail, but unfortunately he is not given any good material to work with. The thugs also OK, except they are just thugs with small brains who, judging from their fighting skills, are setting themselves to go down hard. So they are not too interesting to watch either.