The Patriot

Starring: Gailard Sartain, Steven Seagal Director: Dean Semler Original UK Premiere: 1998 Dvd Release: 12th July, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

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The Patriot is the name of several movies, released in 1916, 1917, 1928, 1996, 1998 & 2000. The 1928 film was written by Julian Johnson & Hanns Kräly. Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky ; Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann ; & The Patriot by Ashley Dukes. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The movie is a biographical story of Tsar Paul I of Russia, starring Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor & Lewis Stone. It won the Academy Award for Best Writing Achievement & was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Art Direction, Best Director & Best Picture. Only pieces of this film are left; there is no complete copy. In the 1998 action film a Canadian patriot has to foil a militias plot to release a deadly virus. Steven Seagal, Gallard Sartain, L,Q. Dean Semler Produced by Patrick Choi, Nile Niami, Howard L Baldwin, Steven Seagal, Julius R Nasso Written by M Sussman The 2000 film was written by Robert Rodat & directed by Roland Emmerich. The plot is a fictionalized account of a colonel based on Francis Marion, also known as the Swamp Fox.

Steven Seagals career over the last few years as spiralled way out of control & he is now probably destined to fade into the obscurity from which he came.

The Patriot is another straight-to-video affair in which a small town doctor is called upon to save his community from a lethal virus unleashed by the local militia. To make things more compelling, Seagal is a retired top military scientist who was involved in top secret research in biological warfare no-less!

Not content with being the worlds best disease specialist, he is also a martial arts expert & marksman - obviously! And this is the basis of the thin plot. The rest is the race against time to find a cure to save the human race!

Lots of nice scenary doesnt make a film. Seagals usual clothing attire is present to give Armani another run for his money.

Leave this turkey well alone. Steven Seagal must do better before he his forced to retire to teaching the ancient art of Steven Seagal whispering!

Steven Seagal is a popular action movie actor & an 7th dan black belt in aikido. He was born in Lansing, Michigan. His official film Bio claims that he went to Japan at the age of 17. However, this is inconsistent with an interview he gave in Aikido Magazine, in which he claimed to have given demonstrations in Japanese Deer Park in the early 70s. Ray Van De Walker claims to have met Steven Segal at the Orange County Aikikai, a prominent aikido dojo, around 1974, where he was known as Steve, who gives demos at Japanese Deer Park. It seems unlikely that a 17-year old, a minor in the U,S. would be allowed to emigrate to Asia. Rays memory of him may be worth nothing, He would come to Wednesday night practice. He tended to wear some weird striped robe thing that Japanese Deer Park asked him to wear. In practice, when he threw me, I couldnt feel his hands, which means that he was very skillful at blending ki. In Japan, Seagal taught English & studied zen, aikido, kendo, judo & karate. He is said to have become adept at all of them. Posters Of Half Past Dead

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