Marked for Death

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Summary: "I didn't get shot if that's alright with you!"
Review: "Marked for Death" is the perfect bad action movie. It has little dialogue, the dialogue that is included is usually misconstrued as gibberish, nonsensical plot, breast shots at the strangest times, and lots of breaking bones. There is at least an arm, a leg, a back, a neck, and countless wrists. As for the nonsensical plot, Steven fights alongside his highschool football coach. I don't know many football coaches who are proficient with automatic weapons. However, the most important thing for any bad action flick is to make sure that the audience laughs throughout the entire film. This, unlike Seagal's failure movie "The Patriot," does exactly that. The bad lines greatly support the movie in the accomplishment of this feat (refer to the title of this review). All in all, "Marked for Death" is worth watching because it makes you laugh and you get to watch stuff die.

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Summary: Marked for Death is nothing new.
Review: (...)This is a formula action picture graced with some brutal fight scenes. In other words, it's your average Steven Seagal movie.

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Summary: NOT REALLY ALL THAT GOOD
Review: A FORMER COP [STEVEN SEAGAL] GOES AFTER SOME LOCAL JAMAICAN DRUG DEALERS. THIS WAS AN UTTERLY DISSAPOINTING FILM, BEING THAT ''ABOVE THE LAW'' WAS SO GOOD. HAS THE USUAL SHOOTOUTS AND THE USUAL CAR CHASES THAT ONE WOULD EXPECT TO FIND IN A STEVEN SEAGAL MOVIE. DIEHARD SEAGAL FANS [WHICH IS WHAT I AM, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT] MIGHT LIKE IT. OTHERS SHOULDN'T EVEN WASTE THEIR TIME.

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Summary: Marked For Death?
Review: A lot of people concider this movie and Out For Justice two of Steven Seagal's best. They're probably right but that's still not saying much.
I found this movie, and Out For Justice very disturbing. Not because of the gratuitous violence, but because these movies could have been so much more. They have the plot, they have great villains, but unfortunately they also have Steven Seagal. I guess the script gets "dumbed down" to keep up with Seagal's acting skills. He's got the look, he's got the moves but he can't act. There's no feeling, no drama, no story to be told, just brutal violence. Some people like that in a movie, but it just doesn't leave you with anything.
If these movies had been done the right way, great action movies like Die Hard would be harder to remember.

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Summary: Steven Seagal at the height of his powers...
Review: A must see action flick,'Marked for Death'features the classic story of the burned out cop who retires only to find more trouble.However,the mixture of suburban violence with voodoo and the exotic plus excellent martial arts scenes courtesy of Seagal(a true master)make this film a bone-crushing collector's item.

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Summary: They don't make 'em like this anymore! One of Seagal's best!
Review: As a kid I couldn't wait for the nest Steven Seagal film to be released. He was the coolest of cool and MARKED FOR DEATH, at the time of its release, was my favorite Seagal film. However, I have since grown up and no longer anxiously anticipate Seagal's films but they're okay sometimes. I still am particularly fond of this one mainly because of the things the script requires the Jamaicans to say. Seagal stars as a DEA agent who soon becomes an Ex DEA Agent (of course he does) after his partner is shot and killed (of course he is) and after Seagal accidentally kills the woman who shot his partner (with me?). Seagal then returns to Chicago to see his family only to end up in a conflict with a dangerous Jamaican drug posse. "You's a dead man walking" That's good stuff. That's what one of the bad guys says to seagal after Seagal breaks his arm and right before Seagal gives him the worst beating of his life. Keith David (THEY LIVE; ARMAGEDDON) also stars.

B-

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Summary: The last of his (non-Under Siege) good ones
Review: 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.

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Summary: The last of his (non-Under Siege) good ones
Review: 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.

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Summary: The last of his good ones
Review: As someone else said (probably on this website), S Seagal probably because 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.

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Summary: Another Classic For Seagal Lovers
Review: Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner's death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent.

On the next day, after reuniting with his sister Melissa and Melissa's daughter Tracy, John gets into a shootout against a Jamaican drug kingpin known as Screwface, taking down some of Screwface's men. John brings himself out of retirement when Screwface retaliates by attempting to kill Melissa and Tracy.

After the shooting, John is reunited with two old friends - a local high school football coach named Max, and a Jamaican Chicago cop named Charles. John and Max set out to hunt Screwface down, only to discover that Screwface has gone back to Jamaica. John and Max take Charles with them to Jamaica for an all out war against Screwface and his drug empire.

A real suprise waiting for you at the end , a must for Seagal collectors .