**SPOILERS** After a blotched up drug bust in Mexico where both his partner Chico, Richard Delmente, was killed and the women member of the Mexican drug gang who killed him was in returned shot to pieces by DEA agent John Hatcher, Steven Seagal, the very dependable and cool as a cucumber drug cop just about had it with his job as a law enforcer. Feeling that he's turning into the very thing that he's been battling all these years a cold-blooded and inhuman monster is just about to call it quits.
Given a two month vacation, with pay, from his job by the DEA in order to get his nerves and head straighten out Hatcher goes back to his hometown in Chicago to take things easy and relax . Hatcher soon runs into an unexpected problem in a nightclub. It's there that he's caught in the middle of a gang rub out where he ended up knocking out and capturing a member of a vicious Jamaican drug posse. Enraged that anyone would dare lay a hand on one of his gang members posse leader Screwface, Basil Wallace, has not only Hatcher but his entire family marked for death.
One of Seagal's lesser efforts not that "Marked for Death" lacks any of the usual trademark gore and violence, in fact it's one of the most violent films that Seagal ever stared in, that's so common in his movies. The story is a bit muddled due to the fact that Screwface and the Jamacian gang members talk is such an unintelligible Jamacian/English dialect. It would have been very wise for the movie to have put in sub-titles or, for the TV audience, closed captions so that you can get to understand just what their saying!
Hatcher, or Seagal, has a bit of trouble here with the Jamacian posse who come across as if their so doped up on pot that their almost immune to both bullets and Hatcher's karate fists and kicks. The posse members end up giving Steven Seagal the hardest time I can remember him having with the bad guys in any of his movies. The posse attempts to murder Hatcher while he's visiting his sister and badly wounds his niece Tracy. Hatcher now throws off and sheds his good guy and new found pacifist persona and goes full out after the posse in a number of wild and bone breaking scenes. One of the most notable in a downtown Chicago department store where he ends up putting almost all of Screwfaces boys not just to sleep but into traction as well.
The posse's last hope to put Hatcher out of business falls apart when he, after being trapped in his car, slips out of the trap they set for him. Before you know it the posse is out packing and on their way back to Jamaica; reduced to putting voodoo and black magic spells on Hatcher as a last and desperate attempt to defeat and kill him. Taking his friend high school football coach and former DEA agent Max, Keith David, as well as visiting Jamacian police captain Charles, Tom Wright, along with him and an arsenal of weapons Hatcher is now going to make sure that Screwface and his posse will never threaten him his family or anyone else again. Hatcher does this by taking the fight, that Screwface started with him in Chicago, back to his home turf.
Very violent and bloody ending with Hatcher not only showing his unmatched fighting and marksman abilities but his fencing skills as well. There's a knocked down and drag out battle with Screwface that last far longer, with the crazed Screwface getting in a few good and solid licks and jabs, then with any of the bad guys that Steven Seagal ever had it out with on the screen.
Given a two month vacation, with pay, from his job by the DEA in order to get his nerves and head straighten out Hatcher goes back to his hometown in Chicago to take things easy and relax . Hatcher soon runs into an unexpected problem in a nightclub. It's there that he's caught in the middle of a gang rub out where he ended up knocking out and capturing a member of a vicious Jamaican drug posse. Enraged that anyone would dare lay a hand on one of his gang members posse leader Screwface, Basil Wallace, has not only Hatcher but his entire family marked for death.
One of Seagal's lesser efforts not that "Marked for Death" lacks any of the usual trademark gore and violence, in fact it's one of the most violent films that Seagal ever stared in, that's so common in his movies. The story is a bit muddled due to the fact that Screwface and the Jamacian gang members talk is such an unintelligible Jamacian/English dialect. It would have been very wise for the movie to have put in sub-titles or, for the TV audience, closed captions so that you can get to understand just what their saying!
Hatcher, or Seagal, has a bit of trouble here with the Jamacian posse who come across as if their so doped up on pot that their almost immune to both bullets and Hatcher's karate fists and kicks. The posse members end up giving Steven Seagal the hardest time I can remember him having with the bad guys in any of his movies. The posse attempts to murder Hatcher while he's visiting his sister and badly wounds his niece Tracy. Hatcher now throws off and sheds his good guy and new found pacifist persona and goes full out after the posse in a number of wild and bone breaking scenes. One of the most notable in a downtown Chicago department store where he ends up putting almost all of Screwfaces boys not just to sleep but into traction as well.
The posse's last hope to put Hatcher out of business falls apart when he, after being trapped in his car, slips out of the trap they set for him. Before you know it the posse is out packing and on their way back to Jamaica; reduced to putting voodoo and black magic spells on Hatcher as a last and desperate attempt to defeat and kill him. Taking his friend high school football coach and former DEA agent Max, Keith David, as well as visiting Jamacian police captain Charles, Tom Wright, along with him and an arsenal of weapons Hatcher is now going to make sure that Screwface and his posse will never threaten him his family or anyone else again. Hatcher does this by taking the fight, that Screwface started with him in Chicago, back to his home turf.
Very violent and bloody ending with Hatcher not only showing his unmatched fighting and marksman abilities but his fencing skills as well. There's a knocked down and drag out battle with Screwface that last far longer, with the crazed Screwface getting in a few good and solid licks and jabs, then with any of the bad guys that Steven Seagal ever had it out with on the screen.