Steven Seagal plays a police officer investigating a potential underground deal on a local pier when he is discovered. Later that night, his family is brutally murdered in front of him and he is left for dead. Actually in a coma, he wakes up seven years later and with the help of a nurse tries to track down the men who killed his wife. (The audience knows from the very beginning, but Seagal has to jog his memory.) Of the Seagal films, all of which basically have the same idea, this is one of the best. An early scene shows Seagal busting up a robbery at a local liquor store, throwing the robbers through glass doors and into display cases. This is what you're going to see again and again throughout the film, so if you don't want to see men get their arms twisted and bodies thrown in the air, you're watching the wrong movie. But you should know this if you know who Seagal is.
William Sadler co-stars as the evil senator bent on gaining ultimate power. This is one of Sadler's earlier roles, but a fairly large one. Unfortunately for him, he has to say the line "you can take that to the bank" around fifteen times. It really only needed to be said three or four to get the point across. Everything after that just suggests the writers had short-term memory and assumed the audience does, too.
Kicks, punches, arm twists and such. Steven Seagal. If this is what you want, this is your film. Sure, the film is critically not rated very high, and that's understandable -- it's not a "deep" film by any means. It's just a lot of butt-kicking. But you knew that, didn't you?
William Sadler co-stars as the evil senator bent on gaining ultimate power. This is one of Sadler's earlier roles, but a fairly large one. Unfortunately for him, he has to say the line "you can take that to the bank" around fifteen times. It really only needed to be said three or four to get the point across. Everything after that just suggests the writers had short-term memory and assumed the audience does, too.
Kicks, punches, arm twists and such. Steven Seagal. If this is what you want, this is your film. Sure, the film is critically not rated very high, and that's understandable -- it's not a "deep" film by any means. It's just a lot of butt-kicking. But you knew that, didn't you?