hyped garbage

How sad is this?

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Marked For Death is an excellent Martial Arts Thriller starring Steven Seagal, Basil Wallace, Keith David and Tom Wright. This film has lots of Powerful fights, Shoot Outs, Deaths etc. It is a film which is about retired cop John Hatcher (played by Seagal) who has just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency and returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighbourhood and that Killings and deaths are happening done by a notorious, ruthless and violent Jamaican Gang led by the malicious Jamaican druglord Screwface(played by Basil Wallace). Determined to drive the drug dealers out, Hatcher has to kill Screwface and the notorious, ruthless and violent Jamaican Gang known to Screwface. Hatcher meets up with old friend and military partner Max(played by Keith David) to kill Screwface and the Jamaican Gang with help from Charles(played by Tom Wright) who later on in the film gets killed by one of the ruthless Jamaicans. Marked For Deaths acting by Steven Seagal, Basil Wallace, Keith David and Tom Wright is excellent. This film also has some Awesome fights by Seagal against the Jamaicans and it again is an excellent Steven Seagal film. Marked For Death is an excellent and tense Martial Arts Thriller with brutal violence and awesome action and again Seagal also looks very handsome in this film.

GOOD THINGS : I like two songs from this movie , both by Jimmy Cliff : "No justice" and "John Crow" . Cliff even makes appearance in the movie . I was good to see Joanna Pacula in small role of Leslie – expert of foreign cultures . She gives the best performance in the movie. The girl who plays the part of Screwface's ex-girlfriend is hot. It was also good to see Danny Trejo in a small episode. "MFD" has a little more budget than typical Seagal movie , so we get to see a little bit of Mexico and Jamaica. It was also interesting to use Jamaicans as the villains . Maybe the writers were inspired by the "Predator 2" ? "Marked for death " is certainly more watchable and better than all those straight to DVD crap movies Seagal is now making … BAD THINGS : but it doesn't mean it's a good movie . The characters in this movie are one-dimensional . The story is flat and lacks a heart . The acting is rather poor (with the exception of Pacula ) , especially from the actor who plays the main villain . All the fights and action sequences are rather unimpressive and not too exciting. Despite some decent budget "MFD" feels like a made for TV movie . The twist at the end could be impressive , but the movie hints it to us too early and not in subtle way . The romance between Seagal's character and Leslie seems forced , undeveloped and rather unnecessary. There are some attempts at making the characters more human and the dialogue tries very hard to be funny and cool , but both those efforts are fruitless.VERDICT : Nothing really worth watching . Still , it's one of Seagal better movies . His fans should be pleased . I give it 3/10.

When DEA agent John Hatcher's partner is killed he decides it is time to retire as no matter how much they do and how many villains they arrest there is always somebody else waiting to take there place. When he returns to his home in Chicago he finds the Jamaican Posses are selling drugs. At first he doesn't want to get involved but eventually he has no choice and deals with one of the gang. This puts both him and his family firmly in the sights of Screwface, the gang's leader. After an attack on his home leaves his niece critically injured he sets about hunting Screwface down; a mission that will take him from Chicago to Jamaica and back again and everywhere he goes he fill have to take on Screwface's many men and the black magic they claim to wield.If you enjoyed other early Seagal films you are sure to like this as it is packed with bone crunching action; he frequently has to fight several thugs at once. As well as the expected martial arts action there is plenty of gunplay, a car chase and even a sword fight! The story isn't too deep but there is an unforgettable twist that first time viewers are sure to enjoy. Seagal isn't the best actor in the world but he knows how to do action so if that is what you want you won't be disappointed. Some of the Jamaican patois is a little hard to understand but that doesn't spoil anything as most of what they say can be guessed anyway… it is nearly always a threat of some sort!

In one of his early vehicles with the three-word descriptive titles, Steven Seagal this time is fighting the war on drugs. Or, to be more accurate, he's out to annihilate the Jamaican drug pushers who've infiltrated his Chicago community. He didn't feel like doing so at first; he'd burned out while on the job as a DEA agent and realized that in order to win he'd become no better than his adversaries. It's only inevitable that he'll once again get motivated to righteous fury when his own family is victimized. The bad guys in these movies never ever learn that simple lesson - mess with the hero's loved ones and they're just as marked for death as the good guy. Here, Seagal showed that in the earlier years of his career how he really gave more of an effort and could be quite engaging. He's given a truly kick ass sidekick in the form of eternally cool Keith David, as the old buddy / football coach disgusted by what he sees around him. Also lending assistance are Jamaican cop Tom Wright and a professor played by Joanna Pacula. "Marked for Death" does its job in a number of areas; as directed by Dwight H. Little ("Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers", "Rapid Fire"), it hits the ground running, and delivers exactly what we as fans of Seagal movies expect: rampant brutality, with broken limbs aplenty, bullets in foreheads, bodies crashing through windows, impalement, eyes gouged out, etc. The topicality of the script does take a back seat to all of the violent action - there's always one great scene around the corner. There's even a little bit of nudity to spice things up. A major appeal of the movie is the soundtrack, which features some tunes by Jimmy Cliff, who also appears on screen performing with his band. The supporting cast is full of familiar faces - Kevin Dunn, Tony DiBenedetto, Peter Jason, Danny Trejo, Gary Carlos Cervantes, and Earl Boen, with Danielle Harris, whom Little had directed in "Halloween 4", in a bit as Seagal's niece. Basil Wallace, an actor who should have broken bigger after this, has enough intensity and charisma to make for an effective villain. All in all, "Marked for Death" is good fun and builds to a really good finale as well as an amusing twist and resulting final one-liner. Seven out of 10.