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Directed by Keoni Waxman. Starring Steven Seagal, Gil Bellows, Sarah Lind. Action/Crime/Police Thriller. USA. Running Time 86 Minutes. Certificate 15.

Released on DVD to rent and own on the 27th December 2010.

Steven Seagal returns as Elijah Kane, leader of the not so above board group of Seattle cops who aim to cleanse the streets by any means necessary, legal or not. So far, so god eh? Maybe not.

This is an absolute stinker of a movie, the one star you seen on the top of your screen is only there for decoration and the fact I can not mark it any lower. Deadly Crossing isn't even a movie, it's the first couple of parts of Seagals US cop show Southern Justice which apparently Channel 5 have picked up the rights to air over here. Oh boy I look forward to that one... not.

So where does it fall down? Ok let's be honest here, Seagal isn't getting any younger and the notion that he would be leading such a team of undercover cops at his age and size just doesn't seem believable. Most of the time he is sat around doing nothing leaving the dirty work to his team. When he does get involved, the action sequences are so short, the fight scenes are unbelievable and the whole bloody thing is just one great big mess. This wouldn't be so bad if his team were even remotely likeable but it seems like the bottom of the acting barrel has been well and truly scraped and the leftovers assembled. After a short while you just find yourself not caring about what case they are solving as the whole thing is just so bloody boring and dull. Plodding round in sunglasses and trying to look cool does not make me think, wow this is worth watching.

If it has any redeeming factor it may be of interest to fans of Steven Seagal but I believe even this mess of a mash up would leave them infuriated at it's tediousness. And its 86 minute run time makes it a tad more tolerable considering it deals with two separate story lines within the film, it doesn't feel like it's dragging and for that alone it should be rewarded.

It doesn't work as a movie and as a tv series, based on what I have just seen, I would avoid that too. The problem for me is as a police/action movie that hardly anything really happens, as it's a welded together tv series, a lot of the action and fight scenes are too tame and are over with too quickly and as a Steven Seagal film, his on screen time isn't enough. Then the problems of it being a tv series arise as this whole thing has been done before, it has been done better and the whole thing just doesn't tick any boxes for me. It wouldn't make me want to watch it again, either as a movie or to watch the tv series either.

It is a mess and whilst some may find something rewarding in it's cheesy dialogue and poor acting and fight scenes, this isn't one for me nor something I can recommend. It starts off looking all glitzy and glamorous but by the time you factor in the weak story lines, poor acting, rubbish fight scenes, a lead star that is hardly on screen and a group of cops that you don't really care about, what are you left with...?

Disc Extras : Nothing extra on the disc which let's face it is no bad thing.

Kris Griffin.

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