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  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 9, 2008
    Seagal's first starring role with a very impressive cast led by Blaxploitation-veteran Pam Grier as his long-suffering partner, Sharon Stone as his wife and Rat Pack hangaround Henry de Silva as the bad guy. A good movie and a sign of things to come for Aikido-legend Seagal - at least until he did Under Seige 2.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 17, 2008
    An all time favourite. Like the story line. His martial arts are in excelent form. Well disiplined
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 4, 2008
    This debut action film of karate expert Steven Seagel is fantastic and bloody tough in the cop thriller. Director Andrew Davis gives the movie style, pace, and gets the best acting out of Seagal yet.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 7, 2008
    This was Steven Seagal's first movie and pretty much summed up the way his films were going to go, marital arts-crime stories with overly despicable villains and our hero saving the women by out-fighting everyone. It was also a surprise to see Sharon Stone playing a nice role and without makeup. Overall, a decent action flick but not one of Steven Seagal's more memorable films.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 25, 2008
    Oh now here is Steven At his best here,very good story line here and alot of action and shows him at hsi best,alot of moves and martial arts very well done
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 23, 2008
    The evolution of this plot is actually surprisingly adapt considering that this is classified as your average run of the mill action movie. Seagal starts off by using a brief bit of his own life history into his character... who then goes to fight in Vietnam but doesn't quiet stand for the whole nasty war interrogation methods so litterally runs off and becomes a dirty cop. As you do. So when people start targeting his neighbourhood he has to find out who, why and when... and it leads back to the same people he was in the war with... oooh fancy that! Nicely character driven with good support by very early Pam Greir and Sharon Stone. Not really action packed, some good shootout scenes and one memorable street scene of Seagal fighting but thats about it. Seagal's first movie showed great future potential and isn't bad to watch as an action movie or a semi-detective movie. Surprisingly good.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 4, 2008
    I very good first film, especially seeing as it was set as an action hero film. One of his better films.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 16, 2007
    This movie was not the first time I noticed Steven. I try to watch any and all of his movies because he just does it so well. I love this movie.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 11, 2007
    Another typical "One man vs all" where Seagal wins. Ridiculous, cliché, crap acting and no normal plot. Merely entertaining with it's constant action.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 4, 2007
    the begining of Steven Seagal's career. one of the better storylines of all of his flicks.a good place to start if you havent seen any of his flicks.
    plus it has the famous line
    "if your lying to me, ill come back and kill you in your own kitchen"
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 24, 2007
    Seagal made a few decent films in the beginning of his career - this was one of them. He's a douchebag, but at least he used to also be a bit of a badass.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    September 6, 2007
    Not one of Seagal's best films, but possibly one the most real and controversial, based on its socially political and religous underlyings. Seagal is still an axe though as Niko.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 2, 2007
    Traditional Seagal, but still good for the most part. I mean honestly, wouldn't you scream like a little girl if Steven Seagal was chasing you down the street after you just tried to threaten him? I know I would. Really high pitched and girly too.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 6, 2007
    When will people learn not to mess with Steven Seagal??? He always wins! For an action movie it's a bit on the slow side. The special effects, mainly dead bodies etc.. look really really bad.
  • Not Interested
    MCT:
    July 31, 2007
    I'm bored rating all Seagal movies with "Not Interested"... So i rate only this... At last, Mercy!!! No more Seagal movies... He always wins the fights without a single scratch!!! Maybe he should take Superman's role...
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 20, 2007
    Seagal in his Hey-day before he was a joke. All of his 80's and early 90's films are pretty much the same. They are good, solid, invincible hero/martial arts master films.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 18, 2007
    This was actually one of his better movies. This was also the first time I saw Sharon Stone, who portrayed his wife. Overall, this was a pretty good movie. I love the quote, "You may think you're above the law, but you're not above mine."
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 8, 2007
    Seagal's first sits in his top 5 films. Thinking back to this and his other earlier films its easy to remember why he became a superstar even if hes become a joke the last 10 years or so.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 22, 2007
    extra half star for pam grier as a co-star. was surprised to see sharon stone in this one too. seagal looks very weird when he's running.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 21, 2007
    steven segal is awesome, he fights with passion and this movie is no different, u wuldnt want to get on his bad side.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 8, 2007
    I don't know why but I always enjoy Steven Seagal movies. There not for everyone though but if you like action then check it out.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 1, 2007
    I love watching one-take cop flicks - this one is a classic. Police brutality mixed with movie justice - awesome stuff.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 1, 2007
    you may think you're above the law, well you ain't above mine....
    hooohaaaaaaa good ol steven seagal

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    I would like to talk about anything good about Seagal but could someone out there rell me how I would watch his movies on here? Pls!!
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