A very average Scott Adkins movie. I expected much more from Isaac Florentine given his past successes but given the obvious lack of money here and the shooting speed I guess this was the best we could do. To be fair, the action sequences are pretty decent when portrayed as JOHN WICK-style shoot-outs, although the hand to hand combat at the climax is spoilt by the annoying intercutting between fights that Hollywood always insists on. Adkins is fun and Mario Van Peebles full of charisma, but the rest is merely B-movie average grade.
Plot summary
Nero, a former special forces agent, has moved to a quiet beach town to raise his son leaving his past life behind, but he gets rudely awakened by a phone call from a modulated voice telling him that his son has been kidnapped. In order to see his son alive again, Nero must wipe out three dangerous crime syndicates of highly-skilled criminals and kill each and every one of them. But he has to work alone and face increasing obstacles and levels of weaponry to uncover the identity of the man behind the macabre plot. The clock is ticking and Nero can't waste any time or make any mistakes or he will risk losing his son forever.
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The man with the plan to expand
Richard aka Nero (Scott Adkins) ex-special forces is living in Mexico with his son (Matthew Garbacz ) who hates life. Bad guy (Mario Van Peebles) kidnaps son and Nero must go on a killing spree of other cartel leaders to save his son's life.
We have seen this plot dozens of times because it sells. In this one Scott Adkins can beat up four people with his hands tied behind his back and one has a gun. Eat you heart out Seagal. It is an action film with a common plot line.
Guide: F-word. No sex. Uncredited Stripper nudity.
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Watchable, though rather generic...
I stumbled upon the 2020 action movie "Seized" by random chance in 2021, and I must admit that I hadn't even heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it.
And with it being a movie that I hadn't already seen and also having Scott Adkins on the cast list, of course I opted to sit down to watch "Seized".
The storyline and plot in "Seized", as written by Richard Lowry, was watchable, albeit rather generic for an action movie of this kind. So when you sit down to watch "Seized", you will not be in for a grand cinematic experience.
Sure, this was a watchable movie, but it was hardly among some of Scott Adkins' more impressive and entertaining movies.
The action scenes throughout the course of the movie were good, both the brawling and gunfight scenes, so that definitely counted for something.
While I managed to sit through "Seized" to the end, this was hardly an outstanding or memorable movie experience. And I doubt that I will ever return to watch it a second time.
My rating of director Isaac Florentine's movie lands on a mediocre five out of ten stars.