Steven Seagal (“Under Siege”, “Attack Force”) is once again out for revenge, this time it’s in “Out For A Kill”. This is another underwhelming action flick that has some fairly decent action sequences by Seagal’s standards but it’s riddled with bad special effects and an unnecessarily confusing plot.

Seagal stars as archaeologist Professor Robert Burns, an innocent man that gets framed for involvement in drug smuggling on the border between China and Kazakhstan. As he tries to prove his innocence, he must battle against vicious Chinese gangsters that are seeking to dominate the drug trade between Asia and Europe. Burns will travel across the globe in his quest.

Seagal yet again relies heavily on whispering much of his dialog so it’s often hard to hear. It might be a good decision considering just how daft some of it. Of course, his character is not just a simple archaeologist but a guy with all sorts of specialist skills. The other characters in this movie are really forgettable and there are just way too many of them for us to understand any of them properly. The only guy that I’ll really remember is the chap Seagal fights in the barbershop. The guy defies the laws of physics as he crawls on the walls. Apparently, Seagal had just watched “Spider-Man” and demanded “Out For A Kill” included a fight with a guy that acts like Spider-Man.

“Out For A Kill” starts off somewhat well but it just gets so needlessly messy. There is way too much going on and so much of the dialog is whispered that we just have no idea what’s going on most of the time. The special effects in some scenes are absolutely horrendous. The scene where he flies a small plane looks particularly awful. The fight scenes are actually okay and I have a soft spot with the ridiculous one against the guy crawling on the walls. It’s such a random sequence but it’s easily the highlight of the movie.