The glowering brutality that is aikido head-banger Steven Seagal's substitute for a star persona at least gives us a rancid taste of authenticity in Marked for Death, a cookie-cutter action picture. This glum lug seems really to enjoy hurting people; he snaps limbs and shatters noses with visible relish. Pitted against a gang of Jamaican gangsters who invade his (white ethnic) Chicago neighbourhood and threaten his family, retired DEA agent John Hatcher sets out to solve the case with robotic efficiency, kicking butt in just about every scene. Not quite as pudgy in... this 1990 outing as he became a few films later, Seagal looks like the genuine, lethal article in the fight sequences but like a hopeless amateur when he tries to act his way out of the waterlogged-paper-bag of a script. So what else is new? The one bright spot here is Basil Wallace, a mostly unsung actor who throws himself into the showy role of the Rasta gang-boss Screwface, a garishly scarred psycho with piercing ice-blue eyes. --David Chute, Amazon.com [show more]
One of the best things he has done, in my opinion definatly worth a watch for any action/martial arts fans out there. As a Steven Seagal fan i enjoyed it immensley.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Just retired from the Drug Enforcement agency John Hatcher (Seagal) returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighbourhood Determined to drive the dealers out Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican druglord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death Actors Steven Seagal Joanna Pacula Basil Wallace Keith David Tom Wright Directors Dwight H Little Writers Mark Victor Michael Grais Producers John Todgya Julius R Nasso Mark Victor Michael Grais Peter Macgregor-Scott Format PAL Language English Subtitles Czech Danish Dutch English Finnish Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Norwegian Polish Portuguese Swedish DVD Release Date 25 Aug 2003 Run Time 89 minutes
When his partner is killed by a ruthless drug overload, narcotics agent John Hatcher (Steven Seagal) decides it is time to retire. But upon returning to his hometown he is horrified to find the people he knows and the place in which he grew up under the control of an evil drug boss called Screwface (Basil Wallace). Naturally, Hatcher isn't a man to take this lying down.
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