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So another Steven Seagal movie goes straight to DVD to be met with general indifference. Or to be more specific a couple of episodes of a new Steven Seagal TV show come to DVD. Although you wouldn’t know it from the packaging, Deadly Crossing is in fact the opening two episodes of ‘Southern Justice’ which was once called ‘True Justice’. The title that appears at the beginning is ’True Justice: Deadly Crossing’, just to make things more confusing.

Steven Seagal is Elijah Kane, the leader of an elite squad of undercover police on the trail of drug dealers in Seattle (which is really Vancouver). Unsurprisingly Kane is something of a rule-breaker who’ll do anything he can to get the job done. Plot-wise that really is about it.

Of course plot isn’t what you’re looking for when you sit down for a Seagal movie. What you want to see is plenty of ass-kicking action. Sadly you don’t get to see much of that either. Seagal isn’t on screen for a great deal of time anyway and when he is, he spends most of it sitting in cars watching the rest of his team do all the work. When he does get off his arse to deal with the bad guys, it’s cut so fast that you can’t really see what’s happening. A lot of brief moves cut together to create an unconvincing fight. You get the impression that Seagal would do one arm movement, pop back to his trailer for a few donuts and a lie down before coming back on set to kick someone in the groin (not that I’d say any of that to his face of course. Actually I so would. I’m pretty sure I could out-run him). To make things worse the big showdown at the end is with Gil Bellows (yes of Ally McBeal fame). The least convincing fight of all time. Seagal brings the pain within seconds and appears to sign off with the bizarre one-liner “How do you say ass in Russian?”. How indeed.

So with Seagal off screen for much of the time we are left in the company of his team. A frankly charmless, nondescript bunch with zero personality and limited acting skills. Whether this is a plot by Seagal to make us grateful whenever he pops up is unclear, but it works to a certain extent. The bad guys are hardly any better. To show this is two episodes of a TV show, we get two sets of unthreatening bad guys. In the first half, a bunch of Cajun drug-runners. In the second, some Russian mobsters led by an unscary Gil Bellows with a comedy accent.

Deadly Crossing Film StillSo does it work as a stand alone movie? Not really. It still feels like two episodes of a TV show. Also there’s not enough action to satisfy action-movie fans (The two helicopters and huge explosion on the cover of the DVD are curiously absent). Having said that it doesn’t seem particularly effective as a TV show either. It’s dull, poorly acted and has no interesting characters. I can’t imagine anyone would have been returning to this one week after week. In this age of flashy, tech-heavy crime shows, this feels distinctly old-fashioned. Which would be quite a novelty if it had anything else to offer but it doesn’t. It’s pretty much a waste of time which ever way you look at it.

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