Into the Sun

Starring:Steven Seagal, Matthew Davis, Takao Osawa, Eddie George, William Atherton, Juliette Marquis, Ken Lo, Kosuke Toyohara, Akira Terao, Eve Masatoh, Pace Wu, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kanako Yamaguchi, Namihiko Ohmura, Daisuke Honda, Roy Oguri, Sokyu Fujita, Vikrom Suebsaeng, Tim Yan, ShÃ´ji Oki
Director: mink
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Yakuza Duck and Cover
the bad guys get iced
He May Not Be Japanese, But He Loves The Food!
Into the Toilet - absolutely horrible!
Don't do it!

Into the Sun
Starring: Steven Seagal , Matthew Davis , Takao Osawa , Eddie George , and William Atherton
Director: mink
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0006VL1IS
Release Date: 2005-02-15

Customer Reviews:

Yakuza Duck and Cover.......2007-03-07

I like movies dealing with the Yakuza. This Steven Seagal vehicle is not bad. This is no BLACK RAIN but Seagal's strong silent type with an understanding for most things of Eastern origin, especially martial in nature, seem to work to the film's advantage. Having seen better days or not, this Seagal film is entertaining.

the bad guys get iced.......2006-06-15

Well I like to see a one-man army lay waste a wall-to-wall cast of hoodlums and devastate Japanese restaurant sets (tongs, yakuza, mafia, and terroristas are all good kendo fodder), but this film just gathers together every action flick cliche there ever was and manages to dumb it down from there - the dialog is dire, the humor pancake flat, and there is not enough action to justify getting out of bed for and it is as badly shot as any kung fu hustle I ever saw. get real

He May Not Be Japanese, But He Loves The Food!.......2006-04-17

I must like torture coz I continue to rent Seagal flicks as they come out. The last bunch of direct to video movies he did are seriously lacking. His "classic" films of the late 80s/early 90s were silly of course, but were fun. Now his films are just boring...really boring. I always knew Seagal could make a dumb movie, but not a boring one, let alone a long string of boring ones. Hell, I might just give up at this point. Plus you have to be suspicious of a film directed by someone calling themselves Mink. I'd think if you're gonna be referring to yourself by a single name, you'd better be cool enough to back it up. I don't recall any classic contributions to the film world from Mink, nor do I think we'll ever see any. And I really don't think Into The Sun is gonna make Mink a director to study in film class. Into The Sun has Seagal as a CIA agent living in Japan who's called upon to look into the assassination of a political figure. He finds that there's a new generation of Yakuza who are joining forces with the Chinese Tongs and.....oh, hell, who really cares? When have we ever cared about the plot of a Steven Seagal movie as long as he delivered the goods? Well, this time the plot is still irrelevant and he doesn't deliver the goods. Most of the film he wanders around Japan investigating the case. He talks to all these high profile Japanese figures who all seem to have the upmost respect for him. I don't know why, but it always bugged me when Seagal tries so hard in his films to be Japanese. He goes around speaking Japanese, and seems right at home with all customs and rituals. I've always found this annoying and silly with Seagal, coz I'm sure the Japanese probably hate the guy. Now I know Seagal is the first white guy to establish a martial arts school in Japan, so I know he actually is somewhat of the Real McCoy, but it still annoys me regardless coz it just seems so phony. There are a couple of fight scenes that go by rather quick, and they do look better than some of the fight scenes from his recent films. Some decent swordwork too, but it's just too little too late. Seagal, like usual, is totally sleepwalking through the film, even moreso that usual, but he can still woo the chick at least! Seagal highlights in this one include Steve ramming a guy's head into a soda machine as cans of soda come falling out, and stabbing a guy in the neck with a pair of chopsticks. I hate to sound redundant, but all in all it's boring.

Into the Toilet - absolutely horrible!.......2006-02-28

There's a VERY good reason this movie got released straight to video. It's completely horrible and dated and reminds me of the era in movie-making where all the heros in kung fu/martial arts movies were white men. It just looks really silly now that so many Asian movies are coming to the US and seeing wider releases abroad.

As horrible as this movie was, I couldn't stop watching it. For me, it was an unintended comedy. The idea that Steven Seagal's character is some kind of sword and martial arts expert supercop in Japan, being able to speak Japanese and knowing all the ins and outs of the japanese underworld is preposterous. The action sequences were horribly filmed and edited to make up for the fact that Seagal is something like in his 50's now and moves with the grace of a gorilla after a Thanksgiving dinner. His age really shows and his hair looks completely fake!

I lived near Tokyo for 3 years, so many of the settings in this movie are familiar. A couple of the scenes take place in the famous Tsukiji fish market and smaller neighborhoods around Tokyo. It's amazing to me that the director let himself squander the location. I would've loved to see him make better use of the surroundings. On a linguistic note, Seagal's Japanese, while not terrible, isn't as good as it should. He speaks like an obvious foreigner, but acts like he knows what the hell's going on and everyone else treats him as a natural japanese speaker, as ludicrous as that is. That's not my problem with this film though. It's just ridiculously made, feels really low budget, and really badly directed and written.

Don't do it!.......2006-02-17

This is not the Seagal of the early nineties. Something has happened to him and it's not good. He's gained weight, does not move like before, and is hard to understand. The technical process is terrible. I will never buy another Seagal (I have 14 of the old ones) again and I think Amazon should seriously consider taking this off their site.

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