Originally intended as a sci-fi/horror film, “Attack Force” is a picture that got completely mangled by the studio. With some re-shoots, dubbing and re-editing, we ended up with a messy action film. It’s just so noticeable that has been completely butchered.

In “Attack Force”, Steven Seagal (“Mercenary For Justice”, “Kill Switch”) stars as Marshall Lawson, a man that loses members of his strike team after a violent attack. As he investigates the murder of his fallen comrades, he uncovers a dangerous plot to poison the water supply of a French city and its surrounding areas with a dangerous drug that transforms users into superpowered killers.

There are numerous scenes where obvious body doubles have been used for Seagal in re-shoots. He has also had many of his lines dubbed. It’s really jarring to go from his regular voice to the dub voice and back again (sometimes even in the same scene). He gets to do very little in this film and when he does fight, he never looks convincing. The villains are severely boring and I did not really understand their motivation. The superpowered people blink sideways like one of the aliens in “Men In Black” so it’s painfully obvious that this was intended to be a sci-fi film.

The action sequences in “Attack Force” are laughably bad with truly horrendous editing. Actually, the whole movie has really bad editing. Even fans of Seagal will hate this one because he’s not in it as much as he usually is and he’s been dubbed in many scenes. The way this film has been made, you almost feel like you’re watching a movie where the lead actor has died and the filmmakers are doing their best to cobble together all the material they have. As a result, it is definitely unintentionally funny but that’s about it.