Steven Seagal, while famously not able to keep track of space and time too well, is an impeccable dresser, and, as we found out the other day, once had a Colombian company design him a bulletproof kimono, presumably so that he could keep up his patented “bloated shaman” look, even while taking musket fire during the Civil War or dodging matchlocks aboard a Chinese junk during 15th century Ming voyages. “I once assassinated Julius Caesar with a front kick, but I’m not here to talk about that,” Seagal likes to say.
An eagle-eyed FilmDrunkard, meanwhile, pointed out that the very factory that manufactured Seagal’s bulletproof kimono was actually visited by Vice reporter Ryan Duffy back in May, who actually got to try on some bulletproof Seagal gear [5:20 of the video], which may require being specially made on account of its size, in addition to its bullet-stopping qualities (Steven Seagal is very big, is what I’m saying). Naturally, Duffy put on some bulletproof clothes and took a jacket for a test drive, becoming a shooting dummy for the so-called bulletproof tailor and CEO of the company, Miguel Caballero, who fires a pistol at Duffy from about two feet away.
You gotta love that the CEO does the shooting himself, right there in his office, no waivers or anything. Good ole Colombia. “Waibear? No waibear. Mira, ju wanna get chot, I choot ju. 10 dolar, frieng price.”








It also repels various and assorted food-based oils, greases and special sauces.
All joking aside, that flexible-ass jacket stopped a bullet and that’s crazy.
Right? The Mighty Feklahr had NO IDEA the technology and research had developed that profoundly. (And He used to be super into Punisher comics, so The Mighty One knows a little bit about bullet armor, baktags!)
I wonder if they use the same jacket for all the demonstrations, ’cause that thing would have to be *rank* with the smell of piss and fear.
This is so much better than the Oscars forshak-pile.
Lince, get this guy to make you “Extended Plus Sizes” tshirts!!! Quit sittin’ there looking jokey and get it done, yIntagh!
Bulletproof flannel or GTFO!
Collar popped BP flannel with BP Filmdrunk shirt underneath? KAHLESS MODE IN DOOM.
Is the bulletproof kimono in case of Robo Geishas?
You need to be acknowledged for introducing that term here. Qaplah!
They guy that gets shot almost could pull off a hairy version of Tobey Maguire, but in that case I wish it wasn’t bulletproof. I would prefer it actually attract bullets. Shark bullets.