I used to be a very loyal Steven Seagal fan but after watching Lethal Justice not anymore. Steven mumbled what ever dialog he had and the whole show contained about 75% location shots of the city of Seattle, which not only became boring but very monotonous. The story lines are boring and predictable. Unfortunately, Steven like so many other martial artists who start out in movies, end up forgetting about their skills and why so many people watched their movies from the start. and start using guns too much-a classic is Chuck Norris who has forgotten that people watch these guys to see their skills in the martial being performed.
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Trust your boss to make the right decisions, don't trust the guys though.
SenatorHalstead10 October 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This two-part moviesode (combo name for movie and episode, yup it should have been invented LONG AGO...) dealt with three big cases. A threatening segregation, a serial rapist, and an ex-soldier from the past... Wasn't bad at all, we actually got to delve deep into one of the characters' past. Now that's typical for many cop shows involving drama and action. Wouldn't we all want to know everyone else's past, other than revolve around Kane's so much? I think that's an understatement... This is how things went left, right, and center in this moviesode!
Lethal Justice Part 1
Kane and his team are dealing with three different cases, one involving a young sniper, still haunted by the memories of his past as one of the survivors, a new segregation called "New Hope", where they enlist Brett Radner to take in being a recruit, to find out more of this segregation, and a serial rapist who hasn't been convicted, unnerving the volatile Juliet Saunders to a high degree. After two of the segregation's members are put in jail after roughing up to an African-American female, Juliet and Sarah Montgomery go confront them after they're released, unexpectedly.
New Hope apparently is a segregation of Nazis, who only allow the white people inside, and are racists, dealing with Crystal Meth, a very illegal drug. Radner takes up a disguise known as Clevis Johnson, and find out all of this information, but has to take some hits of the meth in order to fit in, or quoted "Cut from the same cloth.", and is gently bending the major rule for drug intake.
Juliet is enraged when district attorney Lisa Clayton fails to convict a serial rapist, and leaves Juliet in a desperate rage to put him where he belongs. She has been held back by both Andre Mason and Kane, being pulled off the case. A concerned Sarah Montgomery also watches over Juliet. Juliet is being clouded by flashbacks of a former sexual assault, committed on her. The deputy sergeant seems to be the leader of the New Hope segregation, and Radner continues to bend the law gently, resulting in suspicion from the S.I.U. cops.
Juliet and Radner meet back at the S.I.U. from their own cases, Juliet suspecting Radner is being influenced with some drug, he keeps on telling her he's not high, just tired. Noticing her anger, and discovering that she has been pulled off the case of the sequence rapist, Radner breaks into Juliet, discovering that she had been sexually assaulted in the past, and it explains her tough-minded attitude, and her actions. He does however, suspect a little something of her.
Sarah and Radner start to develop a little attraction for each other, and Juliet is interrogating her about this, or at least asking her questions if she's seeing anyone. Sarah admits that she isn't, or at least not yet, and asks if Juliet is seeing anyone. She says "no", and also advised Sarah to watch her back. Saying that guys cannot be trusted. Sarah gets concerned, and talks to her about the case she's been pulled from, and finds out that Juliet had been in a relationship with a guy who had forced himself on her. Sarah is the fourth cop to discover her riled up teammate's darker past of her sexual assault from a vicious ex- boyfriend. She let him get away, and Sarah consoles her, saying it wasn't her fault.
Meanwhile, Kane confronts the leader of the segregation, and beats him around a bit, in order to arrest him. Afterwards, Kane talks to both Radner and Juliet for 'crossing the line', saying you can bend the law, but never break it.
It was a tough part moviesode, dealing with racism, Nazi's, and national betrayal, but to sour-coat it, it was much darker, discovering the haunting dark past of one of Kane's teammates. I'm not a big fan when it comes to women characters becoming rape victims, (or in this case, for this episode, a former victim of that particular assault), but Meghan Ory did a fairly good job, playing the former victim of this vicious assault, who managed to portray Juliet's recovery from her vicious ex-boyfriend's crime very impressively. She hardly shown any signs of this from the previous moviesodes, but "Dark Vengeance" was hinting this in a way or two. Steven's acting was just amazing to see yet again, taking care of that segregation leader on his own terms. Definitely improved since the previous moviesodes, so a straight-out 8/10 stars is what I rated this as!
Lethal Justice Part 1
Kane and his team are dealing with three different cases, one involving a young sniper, still haunted by the memories of his past as one of the survivors, a new segregation called "New Hope", where they enlist Brett Radner to take in being a recruit, to find out more of this segregation, and a serial rapist who hasn't been convicted, unnerving the volatile Juliet Saunders to a high degree. After two of the segregation's members are put in jail after roughing up to an African-American female, Juliet and Sarah Montgomery go confront them after they're released, unexpectedly.
New Hope apparently is a segregation of Nazis, who only allow the white people inside, and are racists, dealing with Crystal Meth, a very illegal drug. Radner takes up a disguise known as Clevis Johnson, and find out all of this information, but has to take some hits of the meth in order to fit in, or quoted "Cut from the same cloth.", and is gently bending the major rule for drug intake.
Juliet is enraged when district attorney Lisa Clayton fails to convict a serial rapist, and leaves Juliet in a desperate rage to put him where he belongs. She has been held back by both Andre Mason and Kane, being pulled off the case. A concerned Sarah Montgomery also watches over Juliet. Juliet is being clouded by flashbacks of a former sexual assault, committed on her. The deputy sergeant seems to be the leader of the New Hope segregation, and Radner continues to bend the law gently, resulting in suspicion from the S.I.U. cops.
Juliet and Radner meet back at the S.I.U. from their own cases, Juliet suspecting Radner is being influenced with some drug, he keeps on telling her he's not high, just tired. Noticing her anger, and discovering that she has been pulled off the case of the sequence rapist, Radner breaks into Juliet, discovering that she had been sexually assaulted in the past, and it explains her tough-minded attitude, and her actions. He does however, suspect a little something of her.
Sarah and Radner start to develop a little attraction for each other, and Juliet is interrogating her about this, or at least asking her questions if she's seeing anyone. Sarah admits that she isn't, or at least not yet, and asks if Juliet is seeing anyone. She says "no", and also advised Sarah to watch her back. Saying that guys cannot be trusted. Sarah gets concerned, and talks to her about the case she's been pulled from, and finds out that Juliet had been in a relationship with a guy who had forced himself on her. Sarah is the fourth cop to discover her riled up teammate's darker past of her sexual assault from a vicious ex- boyfriend. She let him get away, and Sarah consoles her, saying it wasn't her fault.
Meanwhile, Kane confronts the leader of the segregation, and beats him around a bit, in order to arrest him. Afterwards, Kane talks to both Radner and Juliet for 'crossing the line', saying you can bend the law, but never break it.
It was a tough part moviesode, dealing with racism, Nazi's, and national betrayal, but to sour-coat it, it was much darker, discovering the haunting dark past of one of Kane's teammates. I'm not a big fan when it comes to women characters becoming rape victims, (or in this case, for this episode, a former victim of that particular assault), but Meghan Ory did a fairly good job, playing the former victim of this vicious assault, who managed to portray Juliet's recovery from her vicious ex-boyfriend's crime very impressively. She hardly shown any signs of this from the previous moviesodes, but "Dark Vengeance" was hinting this in a way or two. Steven's acting was just amazing to see yet again, taking care of that segregation leader on his own terms. Definitely improved since the previous moviesodes, so a straight-out 8/10 stars is what I rated this as!
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