Out of Reach is a 2004 US/Polish action film directed by Po-Chih Leong, written by Trevor Miller, and starring Steven Seagal, Matt Schulze, Ida Nowakowska, Agnieszka Wagner, and Robbie Gee. It is one of many, many action movies starring Seagal that have been released direct-to-DVD after Half Past Dead bombed.
Nearly identical to his previous effort Belly of the Beast, this one feataures Seagal as William Lansing, a former CSA agent with a Dark and Troubled Past who now works on nature reserve taking care of injured animals. He's sponsoring a Polish orphan named Irena Morawska (Nowakowska), and is her pen-pal. When her letters cease, it transpires that the orphanage she was in was a front for a human trafficking organisation, and that she's been sold into slavery. Despite the fact that he's not her father and has never actually even met her, Lansing marches off to Poland to rescue the gal and shoot/beat-up all involved in the trafficking business.
This film provides examples of:
- Friend to All Living Things: Lansing shows signs of this.
- Human Traffickers: Faisal is the leader of a group of them.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Lansing and Irena’s drives the plot. He winds up developing one with Nikki as well.
- Kingpin in His Gym: Faisal practices his fencing skills in a few scenes.
- Papa Wolf: Lansing. He isn't the girl's father, but close enough.
- Sword Fight: Lansing and Faisal engage in one at the climax.
- The Voiceless: Nikki, the pickpocket kid.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The human trafficking element, as well as the villain's superior, end up being largely forgotten about in favor of Lansing just going after Irena.
- Would Hurt a Child: Faisal murders Katya when she tries to escape as a warning to the others about what will happen if they step out of line.
