Bad Movie Beatdown: Out of Reach (2004) (REVIEW) 

Originally posted in June 2011, this is a re-edited version that runs 1m 18s shorter than the original. In addition to being upscaled to HD, and had noise reduction applied to reduce tape and camera noise, I've also considerably reduced the movie clips and tried to tighten up the pacing. This was the first episode of the infamous Seagal Month, where I reviewed five of his films and kept a running tally of his voice and body doubles. These reviews also included Mercenary for Justice, Shadow Man, Against the Dark, and Half Past Dead. And if you're wondering why I re-posted this out of nowhere, reasons will eventually become clear...

Fun fact! This movie was a BIG THING (at the time of it's release at least - 2004) here in Poland. It was a time when the master-sensei-king-of-the-world Steven Seagal was still considered an action movie star here. Also the polish actresses involved were praised for playing alongside a true superhero of an actor from the USA. I remember that when I watched this movie (and at the time I liked his earlier movies, the ones when he was half his size + I was 13) I almost fell asleep halfway through this garbage. Yeah, even as a kid that was hyped on action movies I didn't like this movie at all.

5:20 that wasn't slo-mo. Most of the fights are sped up because Segeal moves slower than a 90yr old doing their daily tai chi in the park.

I didn't know there was a movie with Seagal set in my country... Ignorance was bliss. Now I feel dirty.

Oh hell yes! Segal month was an amazing time to be a Bad Movie Beatdown fan. One of my personal favourite reviews on a bunch of Segal movies that made for some fantastic riffing material.

John Leguizamo certainly got a lot mileage out of his story of the time Seagal bullied then assaulted him for portraying a drag queen in "To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar". But then again if that tub of goo was too lazy to even dub (...or WALK around in) his own movies then he should have had a heart attack when he shoved Lequizamo up against a wall as he claimed.

It's hilarious how his doubles don't even look like him! :D

I think the movie would have made a hell of a lot more sense if the girl had been revealed to be his secret daughter that he discovered years prior and had her stay away from him because of his covert past. Anyone else?

Never watched any Steven Seagal movies, but they look like worth watching for their sheer ineptitude (or playing the game "spot the double").

Ah the Steven Seagal reviews, the 5 films you reviewed from that month are BMB classics.

When the voice started talking after Seagal rescued the bird, I honestly thought it was the bird talking to him because he's crazy :D

Arnold could have done this better.

Steven Seagal had so much potential but failed.

OMG. I can't believe the dubbing of Segal's voice. How is anything that horrible produced??? People pay to see these?

'Your ability to ask questions won't let you get the better of me!' Still cracks me up XD

I say his worst film is mercenary for justice.

Y’know both adaptations of “Man On Fire”, that starred Scott Glenn and Denzel Washington did the whole “CIA agent rescuing a little girl from human traffickers” much better.

wow. the dubbing probably cost more than the movie.

Seagal month is BMB/Film Brain at his best and funniest.

Wouldn't it have made a bit more sense if they revealed that Irena was Seagal's long-lost daughter who he had give up years ago, but still quietly kept in contact with? At least that would be a motive for why he went to such absurd lengths to save her.

Ive noticed in other Seagal movies at times also his voice gets dubbed , why is that?

I love Brian Flim crapping on Steven Seagal. I hope he does that more with Diamanda Hagan in future. 4:57 Damn, even the villains of the movie agree with Brian about his hair.

Seagal month was roughly the time when BMB stoped being in my top 5 TGWTG shows And became a solid number one boy oh boy it was a long time ago

18:30 Seagal wishes he were that badass.

2:50 I almost expected that to be the bird talking. Going from there would've made this movie really interesting in a really stupid way. Also 13:58 says SOS. That could say 'this is a trap...' among so many other things.

I could be wrong about this but I think most orphanages don't let adults have contact with the kids unless the are considering adoption

Does anyone know where the Kung Tai Ted theme music comes from? I _could_ just watch one of those old videos again...but I don't remember "that guy" doing music credits back then, nor would I want to give him a viewcount anyway.

And now he is in Russian

Po-Chinh Leong directed this? Aww, he also directed the TV movie Cabin by the Lake, which I thought was pretty watchable.

What was the music at the very end with Kung Tie Ted?

i havent' seen this episode before but i think it's one of my new favs. "the empty trees are intimidated" hahaha :'D

Matthew, are you going to re-upload your review of Alien vs Predator requiem?

More Bad Movie Beatdown Re-Uploads? Count me the fuck in!

3:58 Which would make the character slightly better than the real Steven Seagal. Based on what Katherine Heigl said about him and filming the Under Siege sequal, real Steven wouldn't even bother waiting.

SYMBOLISM!!! 😂😂😂

You should review Into the Sun

"THIS... IS... A TRAP." I'm not a code expert, but I'm pretty sure that was just regular old "SOS" in morse code, in seafood: "ooo/_ _ _ /ooo."

Fun fact: Steven Segals intestinal gas has a 3rd degree black belt!

I love how Seagal has a gun on one of the agents trying to arrest them but doesn’t use it

I’m going to give this movie one thing, the swordfight at the end was actually pretty good. Especially for a direct to DVD movie.

hm.. the sound seems kinda off

Christ it makes me laugh how clearly Matthew Schulze is phoning in his performance XD For a guy who was really pretty good as Vince in the Fast and Furious movies this one seems like the most obvious case of "jfc well look I'm fighting Steven Seagal so who cares whether my performance is good or not" acting since Imelda Staunton in Shadow Man lmfao

It is Commander Edmund Corder !!

What the hell is Agnieszka Wagner doing in this movie?

Seagal is easily one of our generation's great unintentional comedians. I'm glad he lacks any amount of self awareness or humility, he just wouldn't be as funny. I'm also starting to think that every direct to video movie Seagal makes is some kind of money laundering scheme. This movie had a budget of 8 million dollars with a box office return of 104 thousand dollars. Every movie he's been making for the past 15 or so years has had a multi million dollar budget but absolutely none of it shows up on screen as they are all terrible and quite sloppily made.

Aaaah Yes😁, bad movie beatdown👌🏿

2:47 Yeah, well it's Steven Seagal, not George W Bush. XD 18:29 To be fair, "Taken" was pretty damn ridiculous...in fact, it was SO ridiculous until it made more sense when Brian and Stewie did it! XD

How you feel about under the seat

Seagal uses more body doubles than actors who died on the 3rd day of filming a movie.

A long way from Under Siege which was actually maybe a little good.

Perfect timing

even Machete seagal kind bad villain

Keep these gems coming. Been watching you since 2011 and the TGWtG days.

Brian I'm starting to think you think Steve Seagal is a money hungry machine 🤣

Awesome so see this review again. Hope you upload the rest very soon.

5:00 isn't that parenting nowadays?

Good to see this back up. Classic times, shit film.

It's rather fitting that Seagal comes across as a creep in this movie, because he's one in real life as well.

8:33 Been seen? *Facepalm*

18:14 Man... Josh Thomas of the BitBlock really let himself go...

Out of reach, more like out of breath xD

Mathew if you see this I oh you an apology I found this film for like £3 n got it lol. Oh and today I was taking the piss out of this film with a mate who seen it n I was leaving him messages with nails pencils etc lol.

Love from my heart

The dubbed voice has to be better than Seagal's usual inaudible mumbling.

SEGAL

I actually enjoy this one. Once you've seen a few of Seagal's DTV movies, the skinnier body doubles and not-Seagal voice dubs are actually kind of fun. Anyway, the only reason I watch his movies is for the hand-to-hand Aikido action and this one is pretty decent in that department.

also, why would Polish computers all be in English?

That scene where that guy was falling, was so badly paced, that’s worse then Michael bays work on the transformers films.

Lol I think I seen this movie when it come out

Ha good film brain, like how u put that gamer poster on your wall, fuck I hate that film.

That To Catch A Predator reference has not aged well.

Why does he dub himself? I thought it only applied if you spoke in a language other than English.

Wait aren't oil workers fair game? I always thought they were.

Hey I liked mercury rising , that wasn’t as bad as out of reach.

How is it that his movies are shit because he makes them that way. They have to dub, which is ridiculous in itself. He wears the same long ,usually black, leather coats in every movie, and also plays the same corny, soft spoken, ex special operative from every covert military organization possible. He just sits there and body doubles do the rest. He can't even get up to do the dialog in the studio. Why do they keep making movies with him, and who is watching them!? How tf can they make any 💰 off of these movies. The only reason i can think of, is the actors are desperate for even a few bucks. It doesn't get any worse than this.

When are u going to review the crank movies including pathology.

These films are so bad that make Adam Sandler´s flicks look like masterpieces.

Seagal ; kind to animals and children !!!!

ten seconds in. where can I see more of the weather lady, please~???

Hahae so good

This movie looks trash

How is a video that was uploaded in 2019, look like a video recorded with a 2003 webcam?

mathew i hate to bring this up but the rise of skywalker is way better than any of snipes seagal or even including bad stallone films and direct to dvd movies

Review 5 awful films from jean Claude van damme, like cyborg, kick boxer, sudden death, replicant, and universal soldier.

One of my pet peeves are these forced 'implied pedophilia' nitpicks so popular with movie critics across the board; they do their best to find anything that might remotely imply that the character is being creepy. This combination of triggered overreacting and PC culture just to find something to complain about to pad the runtime, and joking about pedophilia while pretending to be outraged by it is hypocritical and unpleasent and devalues genuine criticism. I hope this trend goes the way of the dodo for it's annoying and uncomfortable, the last thing I want when being entertained in a light-hearted way is meaningless references to pedophilia, when even just the word is enough to put me off my dinner due to the psychotic enragement any mention of the topic creates in me as it goes against every fibre of my being, let alone an extended rant about it where the meaning of perfectly innocuous comments are twisted to make them sound super-bad. To the Critics doing this: "Please STOP!"