"Screwface has two heads and four eyes, and that's the secret to his magic."
Lincoln Heights, a cushy suburb of Chicago, is being overrun by Jamaican drug-lord Screwface who is selling to the white youth on school grounds. Burned-out, retired DEA agent John Hatcher(Steven Seagal) gets in the middle of a blood feud with Screwface and his cronies when they threaten his family after he exposes them in a bar shootout with Colombians that goes awry. Teaming with old Vietnam war buddy Max(Keith David;now a football coach with a player and family exposed to the ills of Screwface's drug trade)and a Jamaican cop Charles(Tom Wright) who has spent his career trying to take apart Screwface's drug trade, they will infiltrate the cartel with many dead bodies lying in the wake. The title of the movie represents a Voodoo curse placed on Hatcher and his family for he has corrupted their business with his involvement in putting a stop to them.
About as dumb as these typical actioners come, it supplies fans of Seagal for what they ask for..car chases,gun-fights, sword-fights, and snapped limbs. Seagal's hands are amazingly swift and he's able to mow over these Jamaican scum with ease. It doesn't stray far from the usual formula of a Steven Seagal picture..it's all about the man taking out the trash in graphically violent ways. Many arms and legs are snapped like a twig and the villains are merely clichéd vermin to be eradicated like cockroaches..Seagal is the quintessential exterminator. The lovely Joanna Pacula has a thankless role as an expert in Voodoo assisting love-interest Seagal with information about his nemesis' religious practices. Basil Wallace is unintentionally hilarious as the over-the-top, spitting, bulging-eyed drug-lord. The Jamaican gangsters are presented as uneducated twats who can not pronounce a single sentence plainly.
Lincoln Heights, a cushy suburb of Chicago, is being overrun by Jamaican drug-lord Screwface who is selling to the white youth on school grounds. Burned-out, retired DEA agent John Hatcher(Steven Seagal) gets in the middle of a blood feud with Screwface and his cronies when they threaten his family after he exposes them in a bar shootout with Colombians that goes awry. Teaming with old Vietnam war buddy Max(Keith David;now a football coach with a player and family exposed to the ills of Screwface's drug trade)and a Jamaican cop Charles(Tom Wright) who has spent his career trying to take apart Screwface's drug trade, they will infiltrate the cartel with many dead bodies lying in the wake. The title of the movie represents a Voodoo curse placed on Hatcher and his family for he has corrupted their business with his involvement in putting a stop to them.
About as dumb as these typical actioners come, it supplies fans of Seagal for what they ask for..car chases,gun-fights, sword-fights, and snapped limbs. Seagal's hands are amazingly swift and he's able to mow over these Jamaican scum with ease. It doesn't stray far from the usual formula of a Steven Seagal picture..it's all about the man taking out the trash in graphically violent ways. Many arms and legs are snapped like a twig and the villains are merely clichéd vermin to be eradicated like cockroaches..Seagal is the quintessential exterminator. The lovely Joanna Pacula has a thankless role as an expert in Voodoo assisting love-interest Seagal with information about his nemesis' religious practices. Basil Wallace is unintentionally hilarious as the over-the-top, spitting, bulging-eyed drug-lord. The Jamaican gangsters are presented as uneducated twats who can not pronounce a single sentence plainly.