Senteur
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Iseerphia
All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.
Wyatt
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
swedzin
So, um... what's new in Steven Seagal's films? Believe it or not, he has a zombie-vampire film in his collection. Released in 2009, and before that we had a pleasure to see some new generation vampire films and TV series... And obviously, Seagal, seeing that his career is fading away, pretty fast with all of these straight to DVD films, I bet he decided to appear in vampire-zombie film to attract audience. But, it's also a straight to DVD film,(with Seagal in title, nevertheless) so don't expect that this piece of crap will attract anyone. Yes, well, being a Seagal fan, I watched it just to see what is this all about... and I was pretty surprised how Seagal films can't go down the drain even more. Seagal is the leader of the special mercenary team that hunts zombie-vampires, or whatever the hell they are... The film reminds you somewhat on "29 Weeks Later"... or something like that, there is this disease that spreads in post-apocalyptic world... it doesn't even look like post-apocalypse, not even by long shot, how did everybody turn into vampire-zombies? But, that's not matter in Steven Seagal film, we expect Aikido from this guy, right? Good, but no Aikido here, just sword waving, slow, monotone posture and no acting whatsoever. Other actors didn't even try to do something out of their performances... we got Linden Ashby here (Johnny Cage from Mortal Kombat), who did a lousy performance, you can easily see that this guy's career is fading away too... Keith David is also here, and he was definitively the best actor in the film, and this guy has a powerful career. Plot is boring, action is nothing special... everything else... crap. Don't waste your time with this. Except if you want to cure your insomnia.
Jahn
Well where to start. I am a big fan of Steven Seagal movies, he's my idol. Love all his work including some of the music he's created.Now the movie.. don't know if this is a spoiler or not because it's such a terrible film.. The plot is A group of people are hold=up in an Hospital during an epidemic where the world is suffering from a virus outbreak that turns the infected into well here's the confusing part.. they look more like zombies but i think they are supposed to be vampires. The actors, as far as i know are all unknown, the casting has gone with new actors rather than the usual A or B-list actors who do TV films.The acting is terrible like they picked them off the street and handed them a script, like getting a pilot to drive a bus or a brain surgeon to work as a vet, the two don't mix. The whole films lighting is dark.. I'm guessing out of the 8-9mil$ budget they didn't spend any on bulbs.I'm a big movie fan and a Steven seagal fan and can honestly say this is the worst movie I've seen in a long time, not ever, there are worse.Steven seagal was the only decent actor in the whole movie, the sword fight scenes were well done. I only watched the film because Steven Seagal was in it.. Well let me tell you he is only in it a few times, a cameo part at best. On the whole a very disappointing movie. Under Siege was the high-point of Seagal's career, Against the dark must be his lowest.If Steven seagal wasn't in this film then I'd rate it Zero but you can only choose 1-10 so Steven is a 10 but the movie is a 1 because Steven's in-it.This was my first review.
David_Brown
I have a basic rule about films: I always see the ending. It does not matter if I like them, or even detest them ("The Snake People", "Hot Tub Time Machine" "The Adventures Of Pluto Nash", "Bowfinger", "Teenage Catgirls In Heat", "Walk On The Wild Side", "Jewel Robbery", "Billy Jack", and Valley Of The Dolls" are a few that come to mind), I always catch the ending (Even if it is just the last 10-15 minutes) to know how the film ended. "Against The Dark" is different, I could not even go back to watch the ending. There is nothing redeemable about it: No beautiful women, no humor, no catchy phrases, no suspense, no character to care one iota about, it did not even have a decent song for the credits (Like "Billy Jack & "Valley Of The Dolls" had). It is without question the worst film this side of "Machete" in Seagal's car (I would sooner sit down and watch stupid reality TV like "America's Next Top Model" or "Bridezilla's" above this film (At least some of the women are hot)). The only thing that could possibly be worse to watch is "Machete", "Walk On The Wild Side" and gay porn (Since I have never seen that (Nor intend to), I can only guess at that). As for Seagal, there is not a single "A-List" star in motion picture history whose career has fallen further, from when he was on top. This includes Boris Karloff who went from "Frankenstein" & "The Mummy" to "Isle Of The Snake People" and the "Ghost In The Invisible Bikini", Van Damme, or even Corey Feldman from "The Burbs" & "The Lost Boys" to "The Two Corey's". Seagal's performances in films like "Against The Dark", and "Attack Force" make the worst Charles Bronson movies at Cannon Films (Such as "Kinjite" and "Messenger Of Death") look like "Death Wish" or "Once Upon A Time In The West". The last Seagal film that was any good, "Half Past Dead" was made in 2002, which should tell him, it is time to retire, and never make anyone suffer through any of films again. I will never watch another Seagal film again
Arlis Fuson
A virus spreads and makes people everywhere go mad with a blood thirst rage. Many people are trapped through out the city and the few that survive are fighting for their lives. There is also a group of "hunters" led by Steven Seagal and the hunters are killing these infected with sword and guns. The government is also involved and ready to bomb the city and kill whats left and hope the hunters get the survivors and themselves out first.I have seen so many movies like this with 28 Days Later coming to mind first. The movie tried ripping off Balde as far as the action goes, but it is way better than Blade cause that movie sucked. It also had a very Day Of The Dead feel to it. Keep in mind though that these are infected people who crave blood and don't like sunlight, but they are not vampires or zombies. They talk and they think and they plan and organize, they are smart. Why the hunters didn't just use machine guns is a good question, as most seemed rather easy to kill. They claimed at times not wanting to use guns for the sake of not making noise, but yet after fighting with swords for 10 minutes they usually ended up shooting one anyway...very silly.The directing was really bad at times here and the very unoriginal story mixed with bad directing makes for a bad movie. Seagal was the star although he wasn't on screen a lot. He is known for his three titled straight to video flops so I guess he was an appropriate choice. This movie ripped off tons of movies, and uses the hospital from Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital miniseries and even uses clips from that film. It also references Day of the Dead which it obviously rips off at times. I also hate how the lead girl favors Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame, that was a cheesy marketing move. I did like Keith David in his small role because I am a fan of his.This movie offers nothing new, it wasn't horrible but it definitely wasn't great...I will honestly say I would recommend it to people with a warning attached, that you've seen this before, but it is okay.. The creatures never got scary nor did it focus on any of them long enough for you to get a feel of what they were. One key ingredient in making these films work is having a creature/zombie/vampire or whatever having a reoccurring part all through the movie to keep people looking and waiting for them. 3/10 stars, good for a one time viewing and nice to see Seagall smacking around on some fanged men.
