Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Sharon Stone

Undercover police investigate a political assassination and illicit CIA operations.

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41,180 ratings

R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Andrew Davis, Mickey Gilbert (II)

Release Date: January 1, 1988

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DVD Release Date: May 29, 2007

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  • 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 ...( read more)- at least until he did Under Seige 2.
  • October 12, 2007
    Classic Seagal.
  • August 30, 2007
    rock solid debut from Seagal, downhill after this one.
  • August 12, 2007
    good seagal film
  • February 22, 2007
    One of Seagals better flicks, and sign of good things to come from Andrew Davis. A typical cop thriller where Seagal takes on the big guns as he usually does.... and a lesson to be learnt here and there....

    A simple, basic action movie to start of Seagals Hollywood career. Not...( read more) a bad start. :-)
  • October 11, 2009
    (1988 Directors: Andrew Davis Mickey Gilbert ) This movie co-stars Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) & Sharon Stone along with a long list of famous actors such as Henry de Silva and Daniel Faraldo.

    This was a well done film which begins with the life story of Steven Seagal's charac...( read more)ter ** who grew up early with a strong desire to travel tothe East to study martial arts. Soon thereafter drafted into the CIA. This film's setting is during the Nixon era at the height of the Cold War.

    An inside investigation into the death of an important politician pops up.

    Lots of blatant mob crimimals & "big hair," a little peek into what I like to refer to as a "gentler time."
  • September 17, 2009
    un actor superrrrrrrrr
  • July 24, 2009
    kick-ass actor steven seagal's film debut an leading starring role. i like that way he doing like an kung fu in each film that some of the most of his film i seen and also in each action film. one of the good seagal film debut in the 1980's.
  • July 8, 2009
    NECK-SNAPPIN GALORE!!!
  • May 17, 2009
    I liked this one....

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  • fsheriffo
    January 18, 2008
    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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