If Seagal is to be believed, Kill Switch should be the last film of his that will be "ruin
ed" by producers. He says that now, with his obligation to these producers at an end, we should see a stark improvement in the quality of his films. This remains to be seen. If Seagal is speaking the truth then the first "tamper-free" movie of his will be this one, Driven to Kill. One must admit that it does look promising. The trailer is awesome, and displays Seagal using more martial arts than in any film in recent memory. Note: I am intentionally omitting Against the Dark from these comments. If you don't already know, though that is being marketed as a Seagal film, it isn't. Seagal is hardly in it.It certainly seems that Seagal made a huge effort to make sure Driven to Kill stayed tamper free. The following is an account from a stuntman who worked with Seagal on Driven to Kill (from holymoly.com):
Seagal apparently snapped at Rizzuto when he managed to disarm Seagal before a melee; 'He (Seagal) grabbed me really close to his chest and whispered 'What the %@*% was that?'' and then later in the day on another scene, he winded me with a punch to the gut-he had me in tears and then had the audacity to tell teh director to leave the scene in the film. As i was struggling to get to my feet, everyone looked around amazed even though it was all planned as part of the fight but Seagal was angry and looking around at the crew started hollering 'You see i'm for real, you know what i'm capable of, you don't %$#@ with me ever'.
After that Rizzuto avoided Seagal 'like the plague' but when he was taking a stunt fall from Seagal over a desk, Seagal 'threw me like he was throwing a grenade to Baghdad with such force' that 'If i didnt know how to fall well, i'd have broken something for sure'.
Rizzuto does try to empathise though 'He was working with this studio for the first time and wanted to prove a point to them and to everyone, he got 2 stunt people fired on the first day because they worked on his last movie in Vancouver and apparently without his permission helped reshoot his scenes and mess them up'.
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