When an ex-con who is trying to do the right thing gets used as a pawn in a casino robbery he becomes hell bent on revenge & eventually makes off with both a sympathetic fbi agent & the money. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/25/2007 Starring: Sgeven Seagal Jerry Trimble Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R

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Summary: Today you get bored...
Comment: ...unless you don't watch this. The only explanation (which is no excuse) is that Seagal is dead, and nobody cared to let him know......What a pity...

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Summary: More Seagal violence and revenge
Comment: Seagulls are white crows...Trying to use a spiritualistic justification for
extremes of violence, this movie moves from one scene of death to another.
The robinhood theme just doesn't work when the money is drug money to start with? From prison breaks to killing the big guys behind the scenes,
this movies seems to be about revenge more than any sort of good doing?
I wish I could say the plot or the acting were good:
I think only the martial arts had any quality.

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Summary: A Good Day Nonetheless
Comment: Ironic: About twelve minutes into the film, Steven Seagal asks one of the film's villains "Do I look sleepy?" Not a minute later, his girlfriend asks him "Why are you whispering?"
Feel free to chuckle.

Seagal's 22nd action feature stars him as a virtuous thief who steals from the rich to give to the poor. Upon the urging of his pseudo-psychic girlfriend (Mari Morrow, "Nikita Blues"), he tries to go clean and takes a truck-driving job from a shady fellow (Kevin Tighe, "Escape To Witch Mountain"), but is double-crossed when it turns out that the job is a heist. Sent to prison, he quickly buddies up with an inmate called Ice Kool (Anthony "Treach" Criss, "Face"), breaks out, and pursues his turncoat-of-a-boss.

As bad as Steven Seagal's DTV outings have been, "Today You Die" is a surprisingly decent bit of action that, at times, reminded me of the fun-yet-brainless 80s-90s action flicks of yesterday.
Of course, there is no way to turn back the hands of time, and yes: Seagal still looks overweight, there is some dubbing of his voice, and the extended storyline (with its useless tangents and plotholes) and dialogue are silly enough to kill off a few brain cells. But while "Today" doesn't match "Urban Justice", it's better than the likes of "The Foreigner" or "Attack Force" by leaps and bounds for the fact that it chooses to focus on fun rather than pretending to be intelligent.

The best example of this is probably the car chase near the beginning of the film: it's fast-paced, exciting, shot well, and has a few one-liners thrown in for good measure. In addition, the handful of fight scenes and shootouts in the film are satisfactory as well; Seagal vs. bodyguards near the beginning and the gang confrontation close to the end are particularly attention-worthy.
The supporting cast also works well for once: the afore-mentioned names are alert and add to the plot, as do Sarah Buxton ("Devil's Highway") as Agent Knowles and Nick Mancuso ("Ticket To Heaven") as the hiss-able Agent Saunders.

If able to ignore the use of stock footage from the prison break scene (from Wesley Snipes' "Undisputed"), Seagal fans should find "Today You Die" a thoroughly enjoyable bit of violent fluff. Essentially, if you tolerated films like "Into The Sun" and "Mercenary For Justice", liking this movie won't be too difficult.

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Summary: One of Seagal's Best DTV Movies
Comment: This is one of Seagal's better DTV titles. It features some cool action sequences and tons of classic Steven Seagal charm. He and Treach make for a particularly fun pairing and play off each other nicely. Unlike many of Seagal's earlier DTV movies, this one gives him plenty of nice character moments. The tone of the movie is much more fun and in keeping with some of his best movies like Hard to Kill and Out for Justice. If you are a fan of Steven Seagal as a personality, then you will really enjoy this movie. I give a lot of credit to the director Don E. Fauntleroy. He also directed Seagal's very best DTV movie, Urban Justice. He knows how to stage a nice action sequence and use Seagal correctly. I hope they make more movies together in the future!

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Summary: Overweight, over the hill, horrid acting, and a really bad hair transplant.....
Comment: This is my first direct-to-dvd Steven Seagal film, and it is also my last direct-to-dvd Steven Seagal film. The film is idiotic in nature, with possibly the most horrid acting since Pee Wee's Big Adventure. The plot is mind numbingly unrealistic (not even worth mentioning), in addition to the fact Seagal looks like 30 feet of bad road kill. He's overweight (is it any wonder he wears a bulky coat throughout the movie-hide that gut, Seagal-hide that gut) and over the hill, his hair transplant looks like it was grafted from a mangy dog, and his acting is the pits. Yet, in true Steven Seagal center-of-attention wannabe form, he gets the beautiful girl (who has to be 25 years his junior). Yeah, right.

It's obvious to just about everyone who is paying attention, excluding Seagal, that his days as a top box office draw are long gone. I'd personally like to see him in a Grumpy Old Men type of film, perhaps with Chuck Norris and/or David Carradine. No more of these improbable only 10 years away from senior citizen discounts though I'm still able to conquer the world through brute force type of flicks. Yawn.

Someone needs to tell this clown that he's fat, a disgustingly deficient actor sporting a grotesquely unnecessary mangy mop of a hair transplant, with a fatally career killing severe case of an unwarranted superiority complex. For me, his excessive narcissism comes forth in his performance, or lack thereof. Honestly, I feel sorry for the guy. He definitely needs to grow up. Do yourself a huge favor and skip this one and stick exclusively to the classic Seagal films of the late '80s and early '90s.....

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