Born to Raise Hell is set in Romania where tough American narcotics cop Robert 'Bobby' Samuels (Steven Seagal) works for the International Drug Task Force in an effort to stop the flow of illegal drugs & the revenues created by it funding terrorism. After a routine drugs bust Samuels is given the name of local drug lord Dimitri (Dan Badarau) who supplies several large scale dealers with their drugs, one of whom is the crazed & sadistic Costel (Darren Shahlavi). As Samules & the task force close in on them Dimitri & Costel start to turn on each other in order to save themselves & things get personal, eventually Dimitri & Samules form an uneasy partnership to take Costel & his gang down for good...
Directed by Lauro Chartrand this Easten European set crime thriller not only starred Seagal but he also produced & wrote the thing as well, I have to say I found Born to Raise Hell a throughly dull way to spend 90 minutes. All the usual low budget Seagal ingredients of recent times are present & correct, a cool sounding but meaningless title, a tough cop character, a few European bad guy's & lots of slow motion during the fight scenes. The plot, as it is, is rather dull with Seagal basically just tracking a couple of drug dealers who end up fighting between themselves & Seagal sort of steps in to pick up the pieces & sort everything out. There isn't much of a cohesive story, Seagal just sort of wanders around & crosses paths with the two dealers every so often, the film has no real purpose & secondary character's are poor of the clichéd bad guy with a gun type. Also isn't Seagal's character supposed to be the good guy cop? What's with this pact with Dimitri the drug dealer at the end? So Dimitri has morals as far as drug dealers go while Costel is much worse has he raps his victims & shoots kids as well, in fact Seagal & Dimitri even spark up a bit of a friendship that goes against everything his character should stand for. The dialogue is poor, the pacing is poor with various lame shoot-outs to pad the time out & it's throughly predictable & unoriginal.
As usual for most Seagal films these days Born to Raise Hell went straight to video but even that is too good for it, the film looks pretty drab as well with dark lighting & dull locations although I will say there are some really hot women in this so I suppose I can give it another star for that. The fights all annoying slow motion, image blur, freeze framing & other such trickery which just got on my nerves & looks cheap. There's no great thinking behind it & the makers just seem to have thought 'we haven't had any slow motion shots in a while so lets just put one here' without much regard to the scene in question.
The IMDb says Born to Raise Hell had a budget of about $10,000,000 which is total crap, there's no way this cost that much. Filmed in Bucharest in Romania. The acting is poor, Seagal mumbles his way through the film as usual while everyone else is just bad.
Born to Raise Hell is yet another crappy low budget European Seagal film with nothing to recommend it, a lack of decent action or a decent story really kill it. Sure there are a few good looking European girls but nothing else, one to avoid.
Directed by Lauro Chartrand this Easten European set crime thriller not only starred Seagal but he also produced & wrote the thing as well, I have to say I found Born to Raise Hell a throughly dull way to spend 90 minutes. All the usual low budget Seagal ingredients of recent times are present & correct, a cool sounding but meaningless title, a tough cop character, a few European bad guy's & lots of slow motion during the fight scenes. The plot, as it is, is rather dull with Seagal basically just tracking a couple of drug dealers who end up fighting between themselves & Seagal sort of steps in to pick up the pieces & sort everything out. There isn't much of a cohesive story, Seagal just sort of wanders around & crosses paths with the two dealers every so often, the film has no real purpose & secondary character's are poor of the clichéd bad guy with a gun type. Also isn't Seagal's character supposed to be the good guy cop? What's with this pact with Dimitri the drug dealer at the end? So Dimitri has morals as far as drug dealers go while Costel is much worse has he raps his victims & shoots kids as well, in fact Seagal & Dimitri even spark up a bit of a friendship that goes against everything his character should stand for. The dialogue is poor, the pacing is poor with various lame shoot-outs to pad the time out & it's throughly predictable & unoriginal.
As usual for most Seagal films these days Born to Raise Hell went straight to video but even that is too good for it, the film looks pretty drab as well with dark lighting & dull locations although I will say there are some really hot women in this so I suppose I can give it another star for that. The fights all annoying slow motion, image blur, freeze framing & other such trickery which just got on my nerves & looks cheap. There's no great thinking behind it & the makers just seem to have thought 'we haven't had any slow motion shots in a while so lets just put one here' without much regard to the scene in question.
The IMDb says Born to Raise Hell had a budget of about $10,000,000 which is total crap, there's no way this cost that much. Filmed in Bucharest in Romania. The acting is poor, Seagal mumbles his way through the film as usual while everyone else is just bad.
Born to Raise Hell is yet another crappy low budget European Seagal film with nothing to recommend it, a lack of decent action or a decent story really kill it. Sure there are a few good looking European girls but nothing else, one to avoid.