Maximum Conviction

Steven Seagal & Steve Austin - Together = Bad-Ass Entertainment! 'Maximum Conviction' is hard-core, fast-paced entertainment! The Plot is simple: The Bad-Guys mess up, our Heroes come to clean up. The Screenplay is fast-paced. Direction Wise, fair. The Action-Sequences are fantastic. Cinematography, Editing & Art Design, are proper. Seagal & Austin are in top-form. Seagal is the eternal Bad-Ass & Austin is just getting there. I truly enjoyed watching them both kicking-butt & delivering with such energy. On the whole, 'Maximum Conviction' worked for me. I Enjoyed!

I read some users reviews. Honestly yes Seagal is getting older..in fact Stallone is older and is still kicking ass. So I don't get your points of age. Go ahead and say what you want about Seagal. In real life he would split you in half in a heartbeat...Now about the movie..Movie had action. Not the best plot. But when your looking for a movie just watch people getting their ass kicked. this is it. Im a huge fan of Seagal. I think one of his better movies since Half Past Dead/Exit Wounds. I can see the 2nd one being good if they tweak the plot better. Other than that, watch it if you're a Seagal/Austin fan. If not, don't watch if you're just gonna complain about Seagals weigh.

It's hard not to feel elated and highly anticipatory when one sees the DVD cover for Maximum Conviction, but how does the movie itself hold up? The Plot: Two ex-special forces commandos (Austin and Seagal)are hired to decommission a military prison only to find themselves under siege by a squadron of baddies trying to abduct a certain female inmate. The Pros: After the first half hour, the action is frequent and plentiful. Both stars perform admirably, especially Austin who is slowly but surely earning his acting chops. Minimal to no doubling for Seagal and a complete lack of dubbing! Michael Pare is a decent villain, as well. The Cons: The Stars have very little screen time together, oddly enough. Steven Seagal truly does need to try and shed some weight (and this is coming from a jaded fan). The two stars didn't quite need their younger teammates as all they did was provide cover and hog up screen time. I would say, definitely worth a watch if you're a fan of either or both but I might hesitate on a purchase as this entertaining film is fun but flawed.

This is simply a one hour shootout between five expert special agents including Seagal and about fifteen amateur guys with guns. Its just shootings throughout the whole film , totally predictable with no story and little acting as its just shooting at each other. Thank goodness for fast forward. A child could make a better film its that poor. I like Steven Seagal and loved many of his films. In this one he is simply another shooter. Its like going into a amusement arcade watching children put money in to shoot at moving targets. Thats the whole film.

Two ex-black op soldiers, Manning & Cross (Steve Austin and Steven Seagal respectively) are assigned to a decommissioned maximum security military jail for 'people of interest' when all hell brakes loose somehow tied to the newest two prisons that Cross & Manning recently brought in. Director Waxman knows how to shoot the best sides of Stone Cold and Steven Seagal, as well he should based on the films he's done with each in the past (albiet separately as this marks the first team-up of the two) and the action scenes are pretty good which makes up for a fairly generic, heavily cliché riddled script. Die Hard in a prison with two John McClains, if you will.

... than those actors were during the shoot of this. First time I wrote my review I figured I did something wrong, forgot to press the button, but there seems to be a conspiracy here. All kidding aside and in seriousness, I do hope this will be saved. Because it's almost like watching the movie again and again when reviewing it over and over (and no I didn't copy and paste any of this from my previous "tries"). Love him or hate, Seagal has a very loyal fan-base. It's the same with other action stars from the past, which is why Expandables was such a success. But that was a pretty good movie, which of course had to do a bit with the budget. But even with a small budget you can do quite good things. This right here is neither completely bad nor any good though. Steve Austin has some fine scenes (which make you wonder, why he isn't the real lead here, because that would've made sense) and the director managed to make Seagal look sort of good. It appears as if he is actually lifting his foot! I kid you not, all done through the magic of editing of course. The flash cuts do not serve the story, but are a good excuse to blur action scenes and/or change scenery. The story/internal logic has so many flaws, it'll be better you shut off you brain for the entire running time. Again not talking about "real" logic, but movie logic as in, what is happening within the realm of what you get. Some Action scenes are pretty decent and there is one guy in particular (besides Stone Cold), who's a very good fighter, but only gets to shine once (almost at the end of the movie). You're better off watching or doing something else than getting this. I'm pretty sure the trailer will have the "best" scenes in it!

I am not a Segal fan never have been but this is a good movie Great plot the movie flowed and it all made sense. The acting not so great but the movie as a whole very good I hope they make a second one. Definitely buying the movie as I saw this on net flix. Austin is a bad a$$ and the last fight scene with the Bren Foster was awesome that guy is one to look out for he is a beast. I am excited to see them do another one. Good Job Steve and Steven Good job. This movie is as good as the expendables for sure Segal out did himself this time truly a great movie and Austin redeemed himself in this one as well. Pretty funny dialogue during some of the non action scene's . Recommended to anyone who wants to see a great action flick.

Steven Seagal was is and will be the man because of his early movies, but as we all know, he sinked into weak dtv movies heaven and gained some weight(OK little more than 'some' for an action star). I found most of the new Seagal's movies rather weak although rather watchable(OK, 'Into the Sun' might be an exception here) but I see them getting better and better every next year. 'Driven to Kill' was really cool and 'Maximum Conviction' doesn't fail either. Hell It's one of the Seagal's best. It's also the first movie where Steven is not on screen all the time. He's technically the lead here but we don't get to see him that much. His sidekick is Steve Austin who does a competent job as an ass kicker like he always does. He also seems to be comfortable with being number two here and even gets his ass kicked big time. The lead bad guy is Michael Pare who's good as usual. His character is obviously nothing new here, It's rather cliché mercenary working for the government. He's ruthless, he doesn't like to talk too much but you know he's not the guy you want to mess with. Someone said that 'Maximum Conviction' is Seagal's own lower budget 'Expendables'and I have to agree. Sure, It's not a huge budget movie with all stars cast but there are enough well shot shootouts and fights to keep you entertained. Plus It's really violent, brutal even gory sometimes. Seagal has some cool on-liners so has Austin. It's well shot and edited. I'm hoping Steven will keep rocking with his next movies.

The best thing about this movie is seeing two great icons, Segall "Aikido Beats Everything" and and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, team up on the side of justice. I am sure somebody somewhere thinks this is just some fanfic, but no, it is an actual movie! On the downside, the dialog is standard C-movie fare... not really worse than a B-movie but so stiff and generic that it might as well be written by a... well, someone who can't write very expressively. Also, the characters do some really silly things just to set up hand-to-hand combats, like ignoring machine guns and letting themselves be beat up by girls. Overall, this was an enjoyable movie, but I would have to say that it is not the best of Segal... and I look forwards to "Stone Cold" putting his talents to further use in future movies, because he was entertaining if not believable.