Name of director Isaac Florentine became remembering by Undisputed 2, a significant movie about mixed martial arts. A little of easy-thinking as a screenplay at whole wasn’t in reasons of astonishment, which are filming technique of director, staging of figthings and impressive Yuri Boyka popularized actor Scott Adkins, who played a personage in next two installments in leading role and did multiple collaborations with Isaac Florentine since that movie.
Such tempting conception of Seized’s plot is relaxing in presentation. Unknown people kidnapped son of a main hero, who pressured by this situation to execute assignments in killing of criminal rivals. A wonderful detail in condition for Nero, it’s a name of Adkins’s character, where he must wear a vest with installed camera, which will broadcast for sitting in manor bandits who will make bets on surviving.
Adkins-Florentine in time without guns and using of limbs is a drama about a security consultant, who lives with a son Taylor. His wife, of course, is dead. It happened by incident, which was a turning point for change on peaceful occupation. Unsolved detail of past event will reveal to the final. Performance of Adkins stuns in his living in the character. Roles of actor usually haven’t a sensitive side, which Seized allowed to him to do it in line of relationships with Taylor. A screenplay and actors took care on characterization of personages with which dealing Nero. It was nicely every time when Adkins says a phrase, which heard in many action movies, but Mario Van Peebles, who was brilliant in playing of full personality Mzamo, interrupts on “I know”.
Action changes work of cameras where Florentine is always innovative. It can lonely be a half-footage as sometimes director was doing in Close Range, when it often in Seized. Adkins takes what can call a gait of John Wick, which originally is Center Axis Relock – a technique of quick shooting invented by policeman Paul Castle and appeared in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction at first time. Sometimes shooting and fighting get sluggish in movements. Director could make faster pace as in Undisputed films. Many sounds of crunching bones, which usually were in every Nero’s kick, looked unrealistic in action and beating object didn’t demonstrate reaction. Not disruptive things of this movie, which entertains in watching.
Fighting choreography never had a case of destruction of Florentine’s film. It always was in screenplay. Seized has lazy explanations to story details as using laces for plastic handcuffs and on detection of Mzamo’s manor. I don’t reject flick for this as, if take in person, I don’t criticize for how was in the end. Just don’t agree with that decision.