Out of Reach (2004) (V)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Po-Chih Leong

Writer:

Trevor Miller (writer)

Release Date:

5 November 2004 (Romania)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

It's a split second between hit or miss.

Plot:

Billy Ray Lancing, a former covert agent turned survivalist, discovers that the foster program he is using to help a young girl is actually a human trafficking network. Lancing heads overseas to find the girl and shut down the operation.

Plot Keywords:

Orphanage | Chess | Brothel | United Nations | Illegal Trafficing

Cast

Steven Seagal	...	William Lansing
Ida Nowakowska	...	Irena Morawska
Agnieszka Wagner	...	Kasia Lato
Matt Schulze	...	Faisal
Krzysztof Pieczynski	...	Ibo
Robbie Gee	...	Lewis Morton
Murat Yilmaz	...	Azimi
Nick Brimble	...	Mister Elgin
Jan Plazalski	...	Nikki
Shawn Lawrence	...	Agent Shepherd
Hanna Dunowska	...	Rosie
Ola Hamkalo	...	Katya
Frank Hildebrandt	...	Postmaster (as Frank Hildebrand)
Klaudia Jakacka	...	Petra
Jan Janga-Tomaszewski	...	Uncle Pawel

Also Known As:

Poza zasiegiem (Poland)
The Rescue (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Runtime:

Argentina:88 min

Country:

USA | Poland

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Germany:18 | Finland:K-15 | Iceland:16 | Sweden:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | New Zealand:R16 | Philippines:R-13 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Old Town, Warsaw, Poland

Company:

Franchise Pictures

Trivia:

Steven Seagal's character's last name in Lansing. Steven Seagal was born in Lansing, Michigan.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the climax of the film, Billy Ray does a forward roll before opening handgun fire on the bad guys. The slow-motion used for this highlights the fact that a stuntman or double was used for the roll.

Quotes:

William Lancing: [about Irena] This little girl means a lot to me.

not up to its potential

Steven Seagal picks good topics and he takes good positions on them, but this film is like most of his others in failing on the level of craft. I don't know why this keeps happening to someone whose martial arts experience obviously taught him about the importance of precise execution and continuous refinement, but in any case this film is sloppy. Sometimes it's as simple as parallel action whose locations aren't clear, or too-familiar action scenes, or very slow staging of the obvious, like the initial seizure of the children. More importantly, it's careless or shallow thinking about the characters and their relationship to each other: the villains are pure psychopaths, the kids are pure innocence, the trafficking is simple kidnapping from a crooked orphanage - nothing beyond the matinée B-movie level of white/black hats is made concrete. There's something stubborn and unnecessary about Seagal staying on this mediocre level.