Gone Direct-to-DVD: April 2009
By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Friday, May 01, 2009
9. Against the Dark
Who's in It? Steven Seagal and Keith David
The Verdict: Seagal finally finds himself facing an unfamiliar enemy: The undead. An I Am Legend-like virus has turned a city of millions into vampires, and it’s a sword-swinging Seagal’s task to rescue the uninfected before the military starts dropping bombs. But this dawdling, uninspired 28 Weeks Later rip-off barely requires Seagal to slice and dice many bloodsuckers. In fact, writer Michael Klickstein focuses so much of his attention on the survivors trapped inside a hospital that you suspect he was forced to shoehorn a stoic, swollen Seagal into the proceedings to goose DVD sales. That said, Seagal seems content to expend his energy walking down hospital hallways looking tough rather than trying to convince us he’s the second coming of Blade.
DVD Features: Fighting the Shadows: Behind the Scenes of Against the Dark featurette.
Stars: 1 out of 5
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