Marked for Death | | Cast : | Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula | | Director : | Dwight H. Little | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 05, 1990 | | DVD Released Date : | December 18, 2001 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | Decent Action movie, but not one of his best. | Content
 | I don't think it's one of my favorite Segal movies, bowever, this thing does seem to have a halfway intelligent plot worked into a ton of action scenes!
In Marked for Death, Steven Seagal is told to "try to find the gentle person inside yourself." But he doesn't spend too much time looking, preferring instead to crack the spines of his victims. Seagal plays John Hatcher, a burned-out narcotics agent who resigns from the Drug Enforcement Administration after his partner is killed. He returns to his hometown and finds the city in the thrall of a vicious Jamaican drug gang, led by the nasty Screwface (Basil Wallace). He meets an old friend, now a high school football coach, who tells John about losing his best player and his 13-year-old nephew to drug overdoses. Soon John's family is threatened and his prize Mustang stolen, so John joins forces with his buddy to take on Screwface and the drug gang themselves.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 20, 2005 | | Summary | abouut the movie marked for death...... | Content
| Another well done Seagal movie/film. Recommended for those whom are interested in this genre of movie/film. Don't forget to view these title credit card fraud and pirate organisation if any from very famous or favourite faces that all have seen before.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 14, 2005 | | Summary | Not as bad as I was expecting | Content
| This is a watchable movie, although slightly slow in places. I've never been a big fan of Steven Seagal , but now own two of his movies (the other being Exit Wounds), and the person buying them for me is determined to convert me. It's not going to happen. Steven just bores me. He's just a very bland and emotionless actor, and I don't really find him that terrific to watch. Whether he deliberately plays the characters that way, or its him, I don't know. And his voice drives me up the wall, half the time you can barely hear him, and it does sound like a two packs a day voice.
What I will point out about this movie, is that it's quite graphic, so definitely not for the faint hearted. The neck breaking sounds sent shivers up my spine, and as for the naked woman getting shot, didn't the director of Point Break just totally steal that? There's also decapitation, impaling, eye-gouging (at least it's not hair pulling), hand severing, and breaking of limbs. The fight scenes are a bit dodgy there's no variety in the way the bad guys try to attack Steven's character and he disposes of them with hardly using any energy at all.
The bad guy, played by Basil Wallace, and going by the name of Screwface (in reference to a Bob Marley song for some reason) has the most mesmerising eyes I've ever seen. They're practically the same as Elijah Wood's. I much prefer brown eyes on a guy, and while this guy wasn't much to look at, I definitely liked the eyes.
There was a lot of political correctness about this movie, what I particularly noticed was his sidekick was of a different race, and the bad guys were Jamican, and extremely hard to understand!
This movie is OK. I still don't see why he's so popular, and I'll never be a fan, but if people like him that's fine by me. However, if they're so obsessed, they own action figures of him - then that's an entirely different story! |
| Rating | | | Date | March 04, 2005 | | Summary | Another excellent Seagal outing. | Content
| 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. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 02, 2004 | | Summary | Not his best, but not a piece of crap either. | Content
| If you can get by the fairly slow half-hour beginning of the movie, you are made in the shade. After that it picks up and the butt kickin' begins. Yeah Seagal doesn't even break a sweat in this movie, but oh well. By far not his best movie, but it is during the time when he was basically in his prime. From Out For Justice and Hard to Kill, to the Under Siege flicks they were good times if you were a Seagal fan. But now, oh man, his movies a crap. Marked for Death is cool, the music is mint, even though I don't like reggae that much. Fight scenes were good and violent, and you get a little nakedness from hot ladies. Not bad. |
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