O Jogador

I saw this film on my Amazon Fire device on the TV and must say it was a bit difficult to watch because of Steven Seagal's mumbling. Now he generally does mumble his lines...but with no closed captions, I had to crank the volume WAY up and then way down when the channel scheduled commercials.

Matt (Seagal) is a loser when the story begins. He lost his job as a cop due to his drinking and gambling. Only a bit later do you learn he owes $1,200,000 in gambling debts*!! You learn all of this when he's taken to see a mysterious man (Lance Henriksen) who has bought Matt's debts...and promises to erase them if he kills someone...someone who deserves it anyway! Little did he realize that more contract killings were on their way...and there is, of course, much more to the story than that. After all, who IS this mystery man and why does he want several criminals dead?

A friend of mine, Angelo, mentioned this film...saying it was one of Seagal's worst. Well, I've seen a few terrible films starring this martial artist and was intrigued to find out if it could REALLY be that bad. Well, I still think his "Contract to Kill" is worse. In fact, aside from Seagal's mumbling, it is passable entertainment...rather mindless at the end but watchable.

*It was odd that despite being so heavily in debt that Matt STILL drives a very expensive Range Rover--which range from $45,000-100,000.