ushouldbethankful Steven Seagal in his prime took Hollywood by storm. This was his 3rd hit movie and some consider it one of his best ever.While many action movies tend to recycle the same basic premise, Marked for Death actually has a creative story. Accompanied by some very good actors this movie stands out as one of the best all time martial arts action movies and one of the best action movies in general.Seagal plays a special operative who quits because he's just had enough of the life. He's tired of seeing people he cares about die...and for what? He comes to the conclusion that all the work he has done in the end amounts to nothing....that it didn't make a difference.Upon returning home to spend time with his family he learns that things have changed and the element he has retreated from is now prevalent in his hometown and he cannot escape it. Reluctantly he returns to the fight and begins a personal campaign against the local threat consisting of drug-dealing Jamaican posse members with ties to the mafia.Seagal appears to do all of his own stunts. His style and on-screen charisma really stand out in this film. If you like Seagal this is a must watch film.

Marcus Geebs Marked For Death" is a lot of fun. most of Steven segals movies are made by warner bros but this one is made by 20th century fox. The plot is John Hatcher (Seagal) is a jaded DEA agent. After witnessing the death of his partner, he resigns from the force and vows to return to family life in a quiet neighborhood of Chicago. However, he arrives to find his hometown teeming with Jamaican drug dealers, headed by the psychotic voodoo cultist Screwface (Basil Wallace, Blood Diamond). Though he does his best to ignore the impending danger, Hatcher finds both himself and his family in the dealers' sights after interfering in an assassination attempt, prompting him to team up with an old military comrade (Keith David, "The Thing") and take the fight to the criminals. this film is not perfect. the points of incompetence are limited and don't permeate the entire picture.It's a shame that this movie isn't recalled as readily as some of our hero's other work, since it supplies the adrenaline just as well. Btw Steven segal gets beat up a little in this movie unlike some of his other films we don't see him get hit once.

KineticSeoul This is the first Steven Seagal movie I seen. So I wasn't familiar with his films but from what I know, he usually plays a arrogant and cocky character that goes after the bad guys without hardly ever getting hurt or breaking a sweat. So in another words it sounded like some absurd and ridiculous action movie with bunch of kung-fu thrown in and to some degree that is exactly what this movie is. In this Steven Seagal's character is a retired DEA after on a the line of duty things don't go according to plan. And now he is going after Jamaican drug dealers with dreadlocks and is in some sort of cult with a couple of friends after they mess with his loved ones. Yeah the plot is very very narrow and the villains are comical and not in a good way either. After just few minutes in the movie just seemed to drag, constantly putting excuse to put some action sequences in which this has a lot of. Steven Seagal beats people up while saying catch phrases, some works some just don't. Just about everything about this movie is generic and predictable and almost nothing is all that engaging. The fight sequences with Seagal using judo or aikido was sort of cool though and watchable thus I give this movie a 4.5 even if the acting is atrocious thus I am being generous. I will just say this movie didn't make me a fan of his.4.5/10

jonathanruano "Marked for Death" follows a predictable formula that is really based on U.S. relations with Germany and Japan just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At first our hero John Hatcher (Steven Seagal) wants to retire from the narcotics division in law enforcement and ignore the drug dealing (a metaphor for foreign wars) that is going on around him. Then after trying to live peacefully in isolation, Hatcher is pulled back into his profession when Jamaican drug dealers, led by Screwface (Basil Wallace), fire machine guns at his sister's home and wound his niece. Hatcher realizes that he cannot isolate himself from the evil forces anymore and so he confronts them in a good vs. evil struggle in which he eventually emerges triumphant.With this predictable plot, only great dialogue, great villains and a great Seagal performance can save this movie. Steven Seagal has a great screen presence, but the screenplay only has him perform standard car chases and routine martial arts sequences in which he breaks arms, legs and other body parts. But what I find ridiculous about this film are the villains. Screwface and his cohorts come across as very silly performing all of their voodoo magic. I don't know if there are Jamaicans who are so stupid as to think there is anything to voodooism, but it is hard to believe based on this film. Moreover, the voodooism seems all the more ridiculous considering the dreary atmospheric soundtrack in the background. Somebody at the screenplay or production level was way off in introducing voodoo rituals in order to spice up the plot. It actually made the film boring because the voodooism was not relevant to the plot and the villains were reduced to stock characters that fit the image of the "primitive savage" as imagined by European colonialists. The Jamaican cop Charles (Tom Wright) in the film and the explanation half way into the movie that not all Jamaicans sell drugs came across as a pathetic attempt at hedging by the filmmakers who were worried about their film coming across as anti-Jamaican.