I'm a fan of Under Siege but that's about it. I wish this book would have been done and the Muscles from Brussels.. Jean Claude Van-Damme. Now there is an actor!

I just pre-ordered this.

Just ordered it.

352 pages is a lot for a gimmick. I'll be interested if it's actually funny and interesting throughout.

It's not at all a gimmick; Vern (no last name) has been working on this for years, and he takes it (relatively) seriously. He's a smart guy and he's got a style and voice unlike any other film writer out there. He posts regularly on AICN, and here's his website: http://www.geocities.com/outlawvern/.

Also, in a previous edition of the book I believe David Gordon Green wrote an introduction.

Full disclosure, I was voting member of his 2006 World Badass Committee.

I suppose that in this book Steven Seagal is not in the best light. Still, the critic wrote the book. I think sometimes he tried to blacken the name of actor.

Bryan seems to have hit the right note here and most of the others making comments seem to have missed the point of Vern's tome completely. I haven't read it yet. just pre-ordered it, but am aware of the style and wit of Vern from AICN and I rest easy knowing that this isn't a hatchet job on Seagal: Vern actually wants his films to get better and seems to get that Seagal offers something, even in some of his worst efforts.
And recently he seems to be improving ( contractual obligations over?);I really liked Pistol Whipped and thought that it was a couple of heartbeats away from being a good film.
My view is that Vern has not written this book to lambast Seagal but is trying to illuminate the strange pleasure that is to be had from watching his films and to nurture a cherished hope that one day, maybe, just maybe, Seagal will give us something beyond the just nearly good and maybe, just maybe, lurch into a weird greatness.

I am the Vern who wrote the book and I can confirm that it is not an attack on Seagal. The main thesis of the book is that Seagal is an auteur with a distinct voice and set of themes going through all of his movies even though he only directed one of them. I know that cover they made kind of seems like it's making fun of him, but I hope that will lure in some people who will be broadsided by my passionate pro-Seagal stance.

Of course I discuss many of the funny aspects of the movies, but that's part of why I love them. For the record I consider his most badass to be OUT FOR JUSTICE but ON DEADLY GROUND is kind of the most interesting to me and most rewarding balance of awesome and absurd.

Hello iam a realy great fan from ranst by antwerp belguim.
Steven Seagal is a realy great man and one fantastic actor and awonderfull good musian ,that man making very good movies,and i see his trealer whippet pistols and that is a very good movie.
Steven Seagal is a very good action man .
Ihope that Steven Seagal comming to antwerp .
lovely kisses and take sensei.
Sincerely.
Lutje