Marked for Death (1990)

As someone else said (probably on this website), S Seagal probably became a parody of himself faster than any other action hero of our time. Other than the "Under Siege" pairing, Marked for Death was, to my mind the last really great movie he did.

It is Seagal at his brutal best. As the Editorial Review says, he plays a disillusioned former DEA agent, who comes back home), to find his neighborhood being ravaged by a group of Jamaicans and their drug trade. Seagal cleans it up the situation as only he could: blasting a handful of the bad guys away with pistol and shotgun, and beating the rest savagely.

This movie, like his premier "Above the Law", has some of his technically most proficient Aikido, particularly after he crashes his car into a department store and then takes on about four adversaries in a randori, or challenge of one defender against multiple attackers.

Of course, it would not be some shattering news to reveal here that in the end, Seagal prevails over the leader of this drug posse, nicknamed Screwface (the name comes from a Bob Marley song). They fight with swords, bottles, and ultimately hands. But the climactic fight is equally brutal as it is final.

It was not nominated in the "Best Movie" category. It is not particularly thought provoking. But what it is is an action movie. And as that, it is worth the price of admission.

This is his greatest action film ever. It has everything you want in a martial arts flick. Jamacan drug lords are terrorising Seagal's family and he's SCREAMING FOR VENGANCE!!!!!

Theres arm braking,eyes gouging,decapetation and ofcourse gun stand offs. This movie also makes Seagal look more human in the fact that in th end battle betwen him and Screwface unlike in most of his movis where the bad guy doesn't even score 1 single hit on the guy Screwface actually kicks him around a little bit before getting [beat up] then killed.

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The film is great, but this review is not about the film. Honestly, I am lost for words.... How can Fox issue a DVD in the year 2009, with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and the disc is not anamorphic????

Needless to say, the picture quality is exactly the same as the 1998 issue of this DVD awful. This reissue is nothing but the same cruddy disc in a new box, just like the many reissues of Predator Fox have released.

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Marked for Death is by far Steven Seagals best film. John Hatcher(seagal) has just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency after his partner dies on a case. When a Jamaican Drug Posse marks seagals family for death, seagal realizes that he needs to pay them back, with interest. Seagal, teamed up with a jamaican cop and an old friend of his, to teach the posse that there's just some families that you don't mess with. If you don't like car chases, snapped arms and heads being chopped off, this movie isn't for you. Its's to bad they don't make action movies this great anymore.

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This standard action revenge fare about an agent who wants to get even with the Posse drug dealers who attacked his family is only enlivened by the fury of the fights scenes and the ballistic explosiveness of the gun battles. The frowning Seagal, a seventh dan black-belt aikidoist, is a menacing and overpowering screen presence, though he is not exactly of the calibre of the Robert De Niro "method" school of acting. This film should be watched in addition to "Hard to Kill", "Nico", "Under Siege" and "Out for Justice" by all who enjoy watching him -"like a human bullet seething into the fat guts of the enemy" -disable his adversaries either with a bullet to the head, a chop to the throat, a broken elbow, or a head sent crashing through a jewllery store display...

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