Marked For Death marks (pun intented) as the 3rd movie starring Steven Seagal. This time Seagal, a retired DEA officer named Hatcher, takes on entire Jamaican drug posse that's ruling his neighbourhood and shot his niece. Viewers of previous films of Seagal, Above The Law and Hard To Kill, know that when you touch Seagals family, all hell will be unleashed on you. Fortunately for us the bad guys in the films are not aware of this otherwise well known fact and thus the bonebreaking begins.

Marked for death, another 3-word-movie from action star Steven Seagal is an entry like us viewers would expect at this point from the aikidomaster. A simple straightforward plot in which lost of bad people die in lost of nasty ways. The movie starts with a drug deal gone bad. When Seagals partner gets shot, by a topless prostitute no less, he decides to retire from the DEA and drops by his sister and an old army buddy who teaches football on a high school. Enter the Jamaicans who push the drugs all around town including said high school. Steve is reluctant to do something delivering a speech to Keith about leaks in the dam and putting bodyparts in those leaks. I won't go any further on that topic. But of course Steve just so happens to come into a position where he is forced to beat up one of the Jamaicans and from that point he and his family is... Marked For Death.

This movie is brutal. Imagine the last 20 minutes of Hard To Kill stretched out over an hour. We get more broken bones, limbs pointing in the wrong direction, people shot, thrown through glass, decapited, impaled... It's kinda crazy. Especially the leader of the drugposse, Screwface, a fun to watch Basil Wallace, gets beaten up, sliced by a sword, gets his eyeballs pushed back into his brain. Then Steven snaps his spine over his knee and throws him down an elevator shaft. I'm quite certain he did not survive that.

This is a fun flick to watch. We all know what to expect and the movie delivers on that. I just wonder how Jamaicans look at this movie as almost every Jamaican is a violent drugdealer. Steven is aided by a Jamaican cop (Tom Wright) who is only really here just to show us that not all Jamaicans are evil drugdealing scum. No really? Glad they put him in it, or else I would have gotted very prejudiced from this movie. I must warn you, again, that a suspension of disbelief is required as Steven goes on a killing spree and nobody ever really cares. Apart from one inquiry nobody is even remotely interested that there are corpses popping up everywhere. A carchase through busy traffic ending in a shop which gets totally destroyed with tons of witnesses... nobody comes knocking on Steve's door! It's probably one of his aikido-skills. They should make a movie about that; Steven Seagal is... Under The Radar!

No Homo-eroticism in Seagal movies? He's probably holding hands offscreen