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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... read more read more... 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. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Dwight H. Little

Release Date: October 5, 1990

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DVD Release Date: December 18, 2001

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  • kpn666
    November 7, 2009
    kpn666
    Steven Seagal was the man back in the hey day of mindless action movies, and this one was an interesting change from the usual cop thrillers.

    Seagal play a retiring DEA agent, having had enough of the drugs and evils of his job, so he quits, makes his confession and gos back hom... read moree to recuperate and forget about it all. The problem is, the Rastafarian gangs are taking over, taking drug dealing to a whole new level with provocative violence and stir crazy mythology, led by the psychotic Screwface, a supreme being amongst his men and feared by everyone. When Seagal interferes in a nightclub shootout, he and his family are cursed and marked for death by the gang, so its time to kick ass of course!

    Anyways, what i liked about this movie was the change of pace and the bad guys, the Jamaicans are a scary bunch when hopped up on drugs and twisted immortality. Of course, there is a plot and background to the story, but it disappears in the first half when Seagal loses his cool and declares war on the gangs.

    Action, things that go BOOOM and a pretty hectic car chase which ends with a nice jump into a jewelery story, and finally the showdown at the end which consists of a duel with swords.

    Anyways, the only problem you will face is understanding what the rastas are saying. I was alright with it, but hell it took me time to fully understand a rasta accent and language, so subtitles will help heaps. XD

    Anyways, another 90's action flick, and Seagal is smooth as usual. It even has a great scene in the crappy script, where Seagal meets his partner after killing one guy and watching a Rasta jump out a window to his death....

    "One thought he was immortal and the other thought he could fly. Both were wrong."


    XD
  • middleeasternfilms
    July 10, 2008
    middleeasternfilms
    Seagal in his typical "good guy cleaning up the streets from drugs" role, but this time it's against Jamaicans. Not his best role, this movie is disappointing and even throws in a twin brother for good (?) measure. It's unlike Seagal's other movies around this time, but not as ba... read mored as his later ones. Nice to see Keith David in this, though. He's an incredibly underrated actor.
  • Chiefilms
    March 2, 2008
    Chiefilms
    Seagal, Voodoo, I like it.
  • garyX
    April 8, 2007
    garyX
    More humourless butchery from the pony-tailed bonehead.
  • sanjurosamurai
    January 25, 2007
    sanjurosamurai
    decent seagal actin flick
  • stuartb1234
    January 8, 2007
    stuartb1234
    I hate you Steven
  • deano
    November 12, 2006
    deano
    This is the mostly furiously paced and visually striking than Steven Seagal's debut movie "Nino: Above the Law".
  • husky10000years
    September 25, 2008
    husky10000years
    The movie is OK, it isn't going to win any awards for style but it's well made having been shot on location in Chicago & in Jamaica. Marked for Death was Steven Seagal's third movie. The rest of the cast are OK with Basil Wallace as Screwface putting i... read moren a surprisingly effective over-the-top performance. Director Dwight H. Little does a good job, some of the fights are very brutal which were a trademark of Steven Seagal's movies back in the 90's. The fights & action scenes are well choreographed. This movie is a throughly entertaining overblown unnecessarily violent & foul mouthed action movie, the sort of film which Steven Seagal was perfectly suited to star in.
  • Fascade518
    June 18, 2008
    Fascade518
    I don't care what any one says this one movie right here put Steven Segal on the action movie genre map. See it again!!!
  • xxdebxx
    January 2, 2010
    xxdebxx
    Steven Seagal plays a tough and rough retired cop who becomes marked for death after he crosses some members of a Jamaican gang of drug dealers who are led by Screwface, a scary Rastaman who has magical voodoo powers and is one of Seagal's more worthy adversaries. I thought the b... read moreest acting actually was by the villain "Screwface"(Basil Wallace).
    Rent this one if you are into mindless action films (I sure am lol!!).

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Critic Reviews

Clint Morris
February 3, 2009
Clint Morris, Moviehole

A bondafide Seagal classic!

Chuck O'Leary
March 5, 2006
Chuck O'Leary, FulvueDrive-in.com

Routine violence with one neat twist at the end.

Alex Sandell
July 30, 2003
Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum

Like almost all of Seagal's pictures -- it's horrid.

Scott Weinberg
July 26, 2002
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

Typical Seagal formula.

John J. Puccio
May 7, 2001
John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

...rated R for violence, killing (lots of), profanity, nudity, bone crushing, bone bashing, and bone breaking. ...the whole thing is boneheaded.

February 5, 2009
Variety

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Janet Maslin
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times

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Richard Harrington
January 1, 2000
Richard Harrington, Washington Post

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Tony Toscano
September 26, 2003
Tony Toscano, Talking Pictures (U.S.)

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Philip Martin
May 23, 2003
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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