today you die starts as honourable criminal harlan banks (producer steven seagal) is hired by sinister businessman max stevens (kevin tighe) to drive a security vehicle with $20 and 000 and 000 of cash in the back from point a a las vegas casino to point b him and sounds simple right. well what max forgot to tell harlan that the money is stolen and that he has just become the getaway driver in an armed robbery. bummer. things get even worse for harlan when the local cops catch him and chuck him in prison for a long time and however harlan managed to hide the money before he was caught and with a nice $20 and 000 and 000 at stake and unaccounted for harlan has to watch his back as the crooks want it as do government agents. harlan teams up with ice kool (. )(anthony teach criss) in prison and they both manage to escape at which point harlan goes looking for some revenge. photographed and directed by don e. fauntleroy one has to say that the shot in eastern europe straight to video action films that steven seagal specialises in these days aren not getting any better and today you die is a good case in point. this is a terrible film and simple as that really. the script by producer danny lerner and kevin moore and les weldon gives seagal a new sort of character to get his none existent acting skills around and that of a criminal rather than some government agent or cop or soldier or one man army cliché he usually plays. in fact if you were being charitable you could say today you die is a rip off of mel gibson excellent thriller payback (1998) where he too played a really nasty piece of work to such good effect. while payback was a superb uncompromising hard edged film noir type action thriller today you die isn not and pales into insignificance by comparison. unfortunately here seagal is terrible and he has no on screen presence or menace either and the audience is never quite sure whether he is meant to be a bad guy that we hate or not. for instance initially his character is set up like a modern day robin hood as he steals from the rich drug dealers and scumbags to give to the poor (as well as keeping a tidy profit for himself) which is just ludicrous in itself but then it has seagal turn around and murder a lot of people which contradicts the likable criminal with morals that the film went to such lengths to set up in the first place. the story is full of holes and for instance agent knowles is contacted by the on the run harlan and is then reprimanded by her bent superior for meeting him and it turns out that he found out by tapped her phone. in that case why do not her boss use the information he had to catch harlan. the story is the usual dull predictable bland fight over lots of money with surprise surprise the investigating government agent is actually a bad guy. wow and i do not see that coming i must say. director fauntleroy slows everything down to a snails pace and today you die feels like it goes on forever and the action scenes and set pieces are also severely lacking in entertainment value. the infrequent fight scenes aren not great and most are either shot in shadow and very quickly cut and edited or with the camera played behind seagal character to try and disguise the fact that most of the stunt work done here is by a double. again seagal looks fat and out of shape and uses long baggy overcoats to try and hide it and it doesn not. there a pretty cool car chase through the streets of las vegas in this at the start and i thought that today you die might be alright but it seems the whole sequence was stolen from another action film called top of the world (1997) which is about a las vegas casino robbery and as well as using footage from that film today you die also edits scenes from the charlie sheen action film no code of conduct (1998) and the jean claude van damme action film the order (2001) and the wesley snipes prison based action film undisputed (2002) so quite how much of today you die is original footage is anyone guess. technically the film is alright and considering it edited together from four separate films as well as it own footage it just about competent and consistent enough. all the footage of the us locations are obviously lifted from the films already mentioned with all the original footage shot on the cheap in bulgaria. the rap style music that litter today you die is awful by the way. the acting is poor and seagal just mumbles his way through his lines as usual. today you die is a really bad film made up from other bad action films and seagal looks old and fat and the action scenes are average at best and most of the story is fairly random and it doesn not come together at the end that well at all. one to avoid unless your a die hard seagal fan and if such an animal even exists. 
today you die starts as honourable criminal harlan banks (producer steven seagal) is hired by sinister businessman max stevens (kevin tighe) to drive a security vehicle with $20 and 000 and 000 of cash in the back from point a a las vegas casino to point b him and sounds simple right. well what max forgot to tell harlan that the money is stolen and that he has just become the getaway driver in an armed robbery. bummer. things get even worse for harlan when the local cops catch him and chuck him in prison for a long time and however harlan managed to hide the money before he was caught and with a nice $20 and 000 and 000 at stake and unaccounted for harlan has to watch his back as the crooks want it as do government agents. harlan teams up with ice kool (. )(anthony teach criss) in prison and they both manage to escape at which point harlan goes looking for some revenge. photographed and directed by don e. fauntleroy one has to say that the shot in eastern europe straight to video action films that steven seagal specialises in these days aren not getting any better and today you die is a good case in point. this is a terrible film and simple as that really. the script by producer danny lerner and kevin moore and les weldon gives seagal a new sort of character to get his none existent acting skills around and that of a criminal rather than some government agent or cop or soldier or one man army cliché he usually plays. in fact if you were being charitable you could say today you die is a rip off of mel gibson excellent thriller payback (1998) where he too played a really nasty piece of work to such good effect. while payback was a superb uncompromising hard edged film noir type action thriller today you die isn not and pales into insignificance by comparison. unfortunately here seagal is terrible and he has no on screen presence or menace either and the audience is never quite sure whether he is meant to be a bad guy that we hate or not. for instance initially his character is set up like a modern day robin hood as he steals from the rich drug dealers and scumbags to give to the poor (as well as keeping a tidy profit for himself) which is just ludicrous in itself but then it has seagal turn around and murder a lot of people which contradicts the likable criminal with morals that the film went to such lengths to set up in the first place. the story is full of holes and for instance agent knowles is contacted by the on the run harlan and is then reprimanded by her bent superior for meeting him and it turns out that he found out by tapped her phone. in that case why do not her boss use the information he had to catch harlan. the story is the usual dull predictable bland fight over lots of money with surprise surprise the investigating government agent is actually a bad guy. wow and i do not see that coming i must say. director fauntleroy slows everything down to a snails pace and today you die feels like it goes on forever and the action scenes and set pieces are also severely lacking in entertainment value. the infrequent fight scenes aren not great and most are either shot in shadow and very quickly cut and edited or with the camera played behind seagal character to try and disguise the fact that most of the stunt work done here is by a double. again seagal looks fat and out of shape and uses long baggy overcoats to try and hide it and it doesn not. there a pretty cool car chase through the streets of las vegas in this at the start and i thought that today you die might be alright but it seems the whole sequence was stolen from another action film called top of the world (1997) which is about a las vegas casino robbery and as well as using footage from that film today you die also edits scenes from the charlie sheen action film no code of conduct (1998) and the jean claude van damme action film the order (2001) and the wesley snipes prison based action film undisputed (2002) so quite how much of today you die is original footage is anyone guess. technically the film is alright and considering it edited together from four separate films as well as it own footage it just about competent and consistent enough. all the footage of the us locations are obviously lifted from the films already mentioned with all the original footage shot on the cheap in bulgaria. the rap style music that litter today you die is awful by the way. the acting is poor and seagal just mumbles his way through his lines as usual. today you die is a really bad film made up from other bad action films and seagal looks old and fat and the action scenes are average at best and most of the story is fairly random and it doesn not come together at the end that well at all. one to avoid unless your a die hard seagal fan and if such an animal even exists. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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