hyped garbage

Great Film overall

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

'The Keeper' is a decent entertainer, that works due to its fairly written Screenplay & Steven Seagal's butt-kicking performance. 'The Keeper' Synopsis: An LA cop, who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas. Until one day, when his old friend asks him to protect his daughter by serving as a bodyguard. 'The Keeper' works because both, the Screenplay & Seagal, don't disappoint. The Screenplay is entirely predictable & even loose at times, but luckily, the impressive action-sequences & a consistent pace, sail it through. Keoni Waxman's Direction is average. Seagal, despite having put-on a lot off weight, still is a bad-ass! He's still got the stuff. His butt-kicking act adds only as a plus for 'The Keeper'.On the whole, If you're a Seagal fan like me, then do watch 'The Keeper'.

I just saw the Keeper and I agree with may of the reviews here that this is one of Steve's better pictures of the last few years. Having said that, I must also observe that those who disparage the acting of Seagal and his co-stars would not know good acting if it walked up and bit them.......Granted he is not a great actor, maybe not even a good one, but he is a decent actor capable of displaying and selling humor when it is called for. THAT is a sign of an actor who knows what he is doing.....as the old actor said on his death bed "Dying is easy, it's comedy that's hard."....and truer words were never spoken. All of those in this picture who delivered lines did so on an acceptable level...Academy Award performances they are not, but if you think this is bad acting....you have not been around much.

"The Keeper" is better than most Steven Seagal Direct to Video films (but not as good as any of his theatrical films from back in the day, of course). I mean, anyone who says this is a downturn in quality obviously never saw "Kill Switch" or "Out for a Kill," "Today You Die," or any of the other Seagal DTVs that were so re-dubbed, re-edited, and filled with stock action sequences cut-and-pasted from other films that they were totally incomprehensible. At least "The Keeper" had a basic story you could follow and made sense overall. It's almost at the level of lower tier action flicks like Charles Bronson's "Evil Men Do," or Burt Reynold's "Malone" (and about at the level of Van Damme's "Border Patrol"). Serviceable vehicles for aging action stars. And the film has a tiny bit of Seagal-dubbing at the opening, a few lame supporting performances, and some minor continuity and plot hole problems--the usual for super low budget action flicks. But the leading lady is pretty good--delivers her lines well and is sexy in that gangly, puppet-ish Scarlette Johanssen way). And the guy that plays her dad is channeling Levon Helm, so that's OK. The film's opening, where cop Seagal is shot and then has to train his way back to fighting health, is pretty good, but seems to be from a different movie; none of the characters it introduces appear later on in the movie (in fact, the opening incident isn't even mentioned later on). I suspect that the best parts of two not-that-great screenplays were melded together.But the really WEIRD error in this otherwise workmanlike flick is that Seagal's character's name, Rolland Sallinger, changes halfway through to Rolland BALLINGER! Just out of nowhere, one of the other actors start calling him "Ballinger" instead of "Sallinger"! This is both the kind of thing you'd expect in a Seagal DTV, given that they are often slapdash, but also exactly what you wouldn't expect! I mean, Seagal's DTVs are notorious for the re-dubbing of dialog and the makers of The Keeper opted not to re-dubb dialog in a case where it actually would have made sense to do so!All in all, though, this is a passable 90 minutes entertainment for fans of the giant, middle-aged, whispering bada$$ we all secretly love.

I finally got the chance to see this last night, and to be honest, I wasn't expecting much, considering some of Seagal's more recent output. However, I was pleasantly surprised. The plot manages to move along at a nice pace and doesn't really ever get bogged down. Some things I liked were that the fight scenes were well edited and showed more (usually) than some utter pieces of crap like, say, Attack Force or Flight of Fury. There was also some (un)intentionally funny dialogue, none of which, unfortunately, is suitable for reproduction here. However, it did have it's downsides as well. Most of the supporting roles, Nikita's in particular, weren't well casted, and certainly not well-acted, even for a B-movie like this one. I also thought that the set-up for the film went by just a little too quick. There was also some really odd continuity errors, and a little of the dubbing of Seagal's voice which I (and probably many others) hate. I also noticed that they used a "hair" double for all of Seagal's rear shots. All in all, I felt it was a worthy addition to Seagal's DTV output, up there with Pistol Whipped and Urban Justice. It has just enough action and one-liners to satisfy fans, and better production values than most of his other DTV projects. Maybe some of this is being too harsh, considering that it isn't really a mainstream film with A-list actors, but for a Seagal movie, I wasn't disappointed.