Attack Force (2006) (V)

Director:

Michael Keusch

Writers (WGA):

Steven Seagal (screenplay) &
Joe Halpin (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

5 December 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Humanity's greatest hope... Faces his greatest battle.

Plot:

Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack. After this he takes...

Plot Keywords:

Shot In The Forehead | Title Spoken By Character

Cast

Steven Seagal	...	Cmdr. Marshall Lawson
Lisa Lovbrand	...	Tia
David Kennedy	...	Dwayne Dixon
Matthew Chambers	...	Seth
Danny Webb	...	Werner
Andrew Bicknell	...	Robinson
Adam Croasdell	...	Aroon
Mark Dymond	...	Phil
Del Synnott	...	Carl
Cheryl Ko	...	Admiral's Aide
Ioan Ionescu	...	Soldier #1 (as Ioan Andrei Ionescu)
Tomi Cristin	...	Ambassador
Florian Ghimpu	...	Tourist #1
Evelyne Armela O'Bami	...	Reina
Emanuel Parvu	...	Detective Lambert

Also Known As:

Harvester (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

Australia:94 min

Country:

Romania | UK | USA

Language:

English | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Finland:K-18 (self applied) | Australia:MA | Argentina:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | Germany:18 | New Zealand:R16 | Sweden:15 | Netherlands:16 | South Korea:18

Filming Locations:

Castel Film Studios, Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Castel Film Romania

Trivia:

Screenwriter 'Joe Halpin' is quoted in the book "Seagalogy: The Ass Kicking Films of Steven Seagal" as saying that "Attack Force" had originally been written and filmed as "Harvester," a sci-fi/horror movie with Seagal and his men battling an invading force of vampire space aliens. After Seagal, Halpin and director Michael Keusch had delivered the finished sci-fi film, the production and distribution company decided to eliminate the sci-fi space-alien elements and replace them with another plot having about a super-addictive drug that turns its users into superhuman killers. They called back a few of the lower-paid actors for re-shoots, re-dubbed the majority of Seagal's dialog via ADR, totally re-edited the film and changed it into the "Attack Force" we know today. Seagal and Halpin were not involved.

Goofs:

Continuity: Flipped shot: the large cut Lawson inflicted on the Queen moves from the left side of her chest to the right side.

Movie Connections:

References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Soundtrack:

Rave On The Black Sea

How to waste 12 million dollars.

I look around in the video store still in shock how Steven Seagal with his track record of Bad action movies can still have 3 movies hit the shelves in less than a Year.Attack force being the 3rd no less promised the first-time entrance into the Sci Fi Genre for our ever widening Seagal.Visions of bad movie entertainment flashed before my gullible eyes.Sadly this is not the case one bit with no entertainment and a movie as bad as they come.

Seagal rebounded a tiny bit with the Trashy-but enjoyable Shadow Man last time we saw him.However Attack force has to be his absolute worst movie ever!Don't argue for out for a Kill,Ticker,or even Black Dawn folks.This is the bottom of the Septic tank here.

Anyone who says this is Steven Seagal's return to form should be forced to write a 100 page essay on the word Taste.

Seagal is yet another agent/I'm a supreme bad-ass yet again named Lawson wants revenge for the killing of his Team that leads him to a nefarious plot to distribute a really bad drug to the unsuspecting public.Not to mention the dealers are not from around here.

The whole Production from Directing to the acting is poor.Was this movie shot in the Dark?Its gotta be the most poorly lighted movie since Howling 2.The action is terrible and very badly done.

The Producers have also unwisely decided to do what the fans hate the most:throw in stunt double after stunt double and horribly dubbed Steven Seagal.Who seems to show little enthusiasm here.Can ya blame him?

While it has been said that Attack Force was not the movie Stevie signed on for(originally Harvester)and surely has to be better than Attack force.The post-production tampering has not made it more coherent and made Seagal look worse.I feel bad for Directer Michael Keusch and writer Joe Halpin as they are gonna be judged forever for the ill-advised production re-shoots.

So Now This leaves Seagal in the impossible position to come up with something to atone for this mess.But after seeing how bad Attack Force has turned out do we really want him to make another movie?