Stars: Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Keith David, Basil Wallace, Tom Wright

Director: Dwight Little

Summary: A former Drugs Enforcement Officer returns home only to find his neighbourhood in the grip of a local drug dealer called Screwface.

A retired DEA agent (Steven Seagal) returns to his bucolic hometown only to discover that a dangerous drug lord has taken over. When the agent ventilates one of the drug lord's gunmen, he finds himself marked for death. In retaliation, he goes after the bad guys--with a vengeance.

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The glowering brutality that is aikido head-banger Steven Seagal's substitute for a star persona at least gives us a rancid taste of authenticity in Marked for Death, a cookie-cutter action picture. This glum lug seems really to enjoy hurting people; he snaps limbs and shatters noses with visible relish. Pitted against a gang of Jamaican gangsters who invade his (white ethnic) Chicago neighbourhood and threaten his family, retired DEA agent John Hatcher sets out to solve the case with robotic efficiency, kicking butt in just about every scene. Not quite as pudgy in this 1990 outing as he became a few films later, Seagal looks like the genuine, lethal article in the fight sequences but like a hopeless amateur when he tries to act his way out of the waterlogged-paper-bag of a script. So what else is new? The one bright spot here is Basil Wallace, a mostly unsung actor who throws himself into the showy role of the Rasta gang-boss Screwface, a garishly scarred psycho with piercing ice-blue eyes. --David Chute, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Original Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Year:	1990
Release Date:	August 25, 2003
Runtime:	89 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	01865 D V D
Keywords:	Martial, Death, Off, Wide, Screen, Marked, Schedule, Arts
Genre:	Martial Arts