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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 14, 2017 12:15:32 GMT
"You fuck with my family, you die."Following the tragic death of his partner, Chicago DAE agent John Hatcher (Steven Seagal) are thinking of going into retirement. However, those plans are immediately put to an rest when his own family becomes the latest target by the Jamaican drug lord known as Screwface (Basil Wallace). But the only thing that he and his gang gets out of it, is a vengeful and furious family man that will do whatever it takes to hunt them down and destroy their drug business for good.Ok, not exactly groundbreaking stuff, I know and once again Seagal, the "ordinary" family man loses out a close friend and partner early on, his family is attacked and well, bones are gonna break like twigs, eyes are gonna get mashed into peoples brains and heads will be lost as Steven goes on a brutal rampage to hunt down the bad guys and even takes a trip to Jamaica in order to locate and then dislocate Screwface. One of the funniest and most brutal of Seagals classic movies. He sure do enjoys giving his victims as much pain as humanly possible. Breaking arms, legs and just in such a nasty way, that, I think death is sometimes more tempting than to survive an encounter with an angry Steven Seagal. Beside lots of hilarious fight scenes and Seagal kicking ass, the film is probably most famous for having a, well almost even final fight, where Basil Wallace as Screwface is actually giving Seagal a hard time, for a few seconds. But of course, it will lead up to one of the nastiest and most memoralbe villain deaths in any action film. I was angry as hell when I found out that my scandinavian region 2 (might be UK) was cut to pieces, and I think several minutes was edited out and it ruined the entire film. Luckily I found a region 1 version not long after, that contained the scenes that I had seen on VHS earlier. In other parts we find Keith David, Joanna Pacula and Danny Trejo. While maybe not Seagal's finest hour, it sure is his most bone-crunching movie and one that must be seen in uncut version.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Oct 17, 2017 10:42:06 GMT
"I want Hatcher dead!!!"
I love me some "Mark for Death". Seagal coming up against voodoo. Nice. Basil Wallace truly eats it up. I would have it just behind "Out For Justice". Simple, little story and Seagal handing out brutality. However I find it funny that he's hard-pressed to do so at first, until it becomes personal and then he breaks out his short-lived, self-pitying slumber. From then on, it never lets up as Seagal is his usual cool and collected manner whooping ass. Somehow despite the vicious threats and arousing situations, never do you feel any real danger. You're right about the violence though. Exaggerated, bloody and bone-crunching (literally!). Segeal's two fights with the fake and real Screwface are outstandingly overblown and ruthless.
The only way you'll see Segeal lose a fight.
And this made me laughed how he tried to backtrack what he said.
Simply thrown in for good measure. I actually enjoyed both of these ads.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 17, 2017 12:58:18 GMT
Great videos, specially the highly realistic fight between Chuck and Steven.  In fact, it looked better than some of his recent "fights" in the DTVs business, where he just have some poor stuntman/lookalike doing all the work. Sadly, the closest thing he ever came to having an "even" fight in his films was probably with Exit Wounds (2001) against DMX. But looking back, that seemed rather "light" or watered down for a Seagal fight. Loved those commercials, Seagal did a few norwegian a while back, but I guess the bills have to be payed somehow. Also worth mentioning is the great end theme/credits done by Jimmy Cliff featuring Seagal - John Crow.
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