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Summary: No Oscars Here - But Pretty Decent Action
Review: If you can get past the racial stereotypes and some pretty ludicrous special effects, then "Marked for Death" is not a bad film for this genre. Seagal is actually pretty convincing as the Ex FBI Agent out to clean up his neighborhood from the crack dealing "posse." The leader of the Jamacian "posse" is a nasty dude called Screwface who weilds a machete like Martha Stewart with a potato pealer. Expect broken bones, plenty of punches, a decapitation or two, the typical bad guy flying out of a window and smashing on top a car, and even an unfortunate cop who did'nt look behind him and is turned into a shishkabob by Screwface.
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Summary: Seagal at his best
Review: 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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Summary: Marked for video release
Review: OK, this is a Steve "bonecruncher" Seagal flick, not the royal shakespeare company, still, a little imagination or even script-writing might not have gone amiss.
I mean, this guy can fight,and those scenes are well done indeed, no doubt about it, but I would say this is one of his lesser films on the whole. If you want to see Seagal, watch Under Siege or The Glimmer Man instead.
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Summary: Predictable but Interesting
Review: Seagall plays a DEA agent who's lost his ideals and has forgotten what he is fighting for. He returns to his sister's family for some R&R and to regain his center, only to be dragged into conflict with a vicious Jamaican drug gang who uses voo-doo to scare everyone.THe action is good, the dialogue lousy. The sub-plot is about redemption and violence. It tries to explain why good men have to use violence to keep the world safe. While it gets lost in the bone-cracking, head-chopping and gun fire, it is there.
Sometimes, to protect the people and ideals your love, you must resort to violence. There are bad people in the world who don't care for anyone or anything and will destroy everything to get their way. To stop them, using their methods are necessary. Is Seagall redemped after it all over? That question isn't answered but let's hope so.
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Summary: Another excellent Seagal outing.
Review: Seagals 3rd movie in his hot streak of 5 hits before it started to slip down hill. This one while not as good as Out For Justice, Above The Law or Hard To Kill and with a very slow first half hour is still a solid entry in the best of Seagals movie career. The violence at times can be brutal, the aikido scenes are staged very well and the plot moves along at an acceptable pace once it gets started. A lot of people comment on Seagals acting ability. For me Seagal is believable in all his early roles and believability in a role is acting which is why his later movies are all so terrible and lack not only believability but credibility as well. In Marked For Death, Seagal's character demonstrates that he has no problem doing what has to be done. Someone attacks him with a knife, he snaps their wrist and puts the knife in their chest. Someone tries to strangle him, he puts his fingers in their eyes and they soon let go. No fancy Van Damme moves just simple self defense. It is a sad thing to see how Seagal as fallen so far with the not so good movies that he is making these days like Half Past Dead, The Foreigner, Out Of Reach and the terrible Out For A Kill and Ticker. To be a success again he should go back to basics and keep things simple much like Van Damme has with the excellent In Hell and Wake Of Death. If you don't like violent thrillers or Steven Seagal movies, even his early ones then don't watch this, if you do then this is recommended viewing.
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Summary: As an action flick, one of the best out there
Review: Steven Seagal will never win an Oscar. Boo hoo. So what? He's a 7th Dan Aikido master, who rents his movies to watch him act? The martial arts in this film are first rate, and techniques he shows here are his best on-film Aikido since Above the Law. This one is worth a look if you're an action film fan.
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Summary: they wouldn't let me choose "0 stars," sooooo ....
Review: Steven Seagal, garbed in denim jackets throughout the film,
makes himself a thorn in the side of herb-puffing gangsters.
It's a film definitely worth watching, for those of you who
enjoy plotless action with a lot of girlish running and
awful acting from my man, Seagal.
Now, there are several layers of meaning here. For instance,
one could take the hermeneutical tack and analyze the many scenes
in this movie in which gratuitous mayhem and very-bad-acting predominate,...
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Summary: Seagal is getting to be a real dissapointment in action film
Review: Storyline:Jamican drug pushers headed by an ugly leader with dreadlocks and freaky eyes are trying to take over the drug trade from the local mob and bring hell to a quiet peaceful subard in Chicago. Enters John Hatcher(Seagal) a DEA agent who happens to be a master of martial arts who is now "retired" but finds it hard to when these jamicans invades his terriotory. So out of retirment Seagal comes and the blood flow starts immedintaly afterward. Seagal wreaks all kinds of havoc shoot one guy in the head at close range, beats up six or seven guys all at once snaps necks and wrists like they were made out of breadsticks, and seems to really enjoy doing so. And of course the cliamatic finale not only does Seagal beat up his quarry he sqiusihs the guy's eyes right out to the back of his head, breaks his back over his knee and then throws him down an elevator shaft so his little army can see Seagal is Mr.tough guy and that they should go back to drinking pina cloadas under the Jamican sun. Macho stupidity reigns supreme here! But i must admit Steven Seagal has a way with profanity he uses it very well. One scene in this film was real corny in every sense of the word was when the jamicans corner seagal en route to his home by crushing his car with a bulldozer somehow someway seagal miracusley manages to escape from being crushed to death a few seconds later the car explodes and no one sees a thing! quite stupid looks like Stevie has seen one too many James Bond films when he was a kid.
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Summary: Steven Seagal Is Hard
Review: This film is simply awesome Steven is in perfect shape and annihilates everything in his way. If your already a fan of his work then this film will rock your world, and if you haven't watched the great one before then where have you been. SEAGAL is God, all hail.
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Summary: Has some good scenes but it's not a good movie.
Review: This film was originally called "Screwface" after it's villain. But basically it's another excuse for Seagal (wearing the same suit he wore in Hard To Kill) to go around killing everyone in his own handsome style. But this time he's killing Jamaican drug dealers because they've marked him for death. He teams up with his old army buddy Keith David and takes on an entire army of them. Like you do. The action is affective and does excite but the rest of the movie doesn't generate much interest and leads us to believe that a lot of scenes were dropped. This could explain some of the confusion and plot holes (we are told Screwface is so-called for a reason, which is never given). This movie injects a theme of voodoo that got me excited at first but disappointed me when nothing happens with it. Joanna Pacula is in the movie for about a minute but gets second billing on the cast list. Oh, it also has a bizarre plot twist that I won't ruin for you. Fox's DVD is not up to scratch. The 2.35:1 picture is not anamorphic and is troublesome. Very poor blacks and badly contrasted scenes mar the film. Upon viewing the theatrical trailer and spying the cover of the R2 release I can spot at least 2 deleted scenes. The insert card only lists half of the chapter stops the DVD has(Apparently the film ends at chapter 10). The insert card also displays a picture from Under Siege 2 (which is not even owned by Fox, but Warner). And if you think that is bad then wait for this...the back cover claims the DVD is in 1.85:1 (it's not) and displays a picture from the 007 movie "License to Kill". I can't imagine how that got in there but I have a good feeling Fox will re-release this in Anamorphic and DTS sound. They did this with the Die Hard Trilogy, Predator and The Siege. Hopefully these errors will be corrected when they do so. Even if the sole extra is still the theatrical trailer I would still by re-release of M4D. The car chase and final rumble are way cool scenes and James Newton Howard's score is very interesting. I would only buy this for cheap as I am 99% sure that Fox will re-release it.
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