So what is the general feeling about Steven Seagal in this day and age?
He’s fat, and washed up! 
Word.
Since the OP needs informed opinions, let’s move this to IMHO.
samclem
Same as always: Crappy actor who bullshits a lot.
Three words:
Straight. To. Video.
Doofus.
His movies are 90 minutes of ass.
There’s a great drinking game you can play in his movies- whenever Mr. Seagal strikes a pose for the camera (and he does it often), you have to take a shot.
You’ll be drunk before the opening titles have finished, and if you can make it to the end credits without a blood alcohol content that would fell a rhinoceros, then you deserve some kind of medal, as well as free rental of movies that don’t suck so much.
I can’t think of a better way to end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. Seagal mugs for the camera a lot.
I think that he wouldn’t be held in such low contempt if he lost 50 or 60 lbs.
But then again, he may. What rankled me was his trying to cover up his fatness in that movie from 2001, or whenever, when he was in prison. All through it he was wearing some robe-like overcoat. Boy, that sure fooled me into thinking that he was still in shape!
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Yeah he would. He comes across as obnoxious, even in his movies. I mean, lots of actors are probably plenty obnoxious, but they can at least hide it behind a facade when they’re in front of a camera, especially when they’re playing a character. He can’t.
I swear it must’ve been in his contracts that at some point in his movies, a character will refer to his character as the biggest, baddest motherfucker/badass (depending on rating) they’ve ever met.
Here’s something interesting about Segal: in all of his fight scenes, he never gets hurt. Other action stars, they get bloodied, shot, bruised and generally messed up (Bruce Willis is especially good at getting the crap kicked out of him); but our Steve, he’ll get through the entire movie with nary a scratch. He’s JUST THAT TOUGH.
Yes, but his latest “movie”, while having a three word title, has more than one syllable in the first word!
Totally different!
-Joe
For some bizarre reason, he still has some measurable level of popularity over here (maybe because he speaks halfway decent Japanese), so there are actual ads right now for his latest (straight-to-video) movie release.
Eh, almost. In Hard to Kill he got punched in the mouth. He turned, spit out some blood, and said, “Is that all you got boy? Cause if that’s all you got, I’m just gonna have to kill you.” He then kicked the guy’s ass, who happened to be a namby-pamby senator with zero fighting skills.
Well, it doesn’t matter that he’s not much of an actor, now that we know what a fantastic musician he is! Who didn’t love Songs from the Crystal Cave?
Wasn’t this actor mixed up with the mafia at some point? Or am I thinking of someone else?
He has claimed that, yes. He has also claimed to have been a CIA agent, the reincarnation of a lama Buddhist something-or-other, and actually good at fighting in real life.