Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Basil Wallace

Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner's death, Joh...( read more  read more... )n has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent. On the next day, after reuniting with his sister Melissa and Melissa's daughter Tracy, John gets into a shootout against a Jamaican drug kingpin known as Screwface, taking down some of Screwface's men. John brings himself out of retirement when Screwface retaliates by attempting to kill Melissa and Tracy. After the shooting, John is reunited with two old friends - a local high school football coach named Max, and a Jamaican Chicago cop named Charles. John and Max set out to hunt Screwface down, only to discover that Screwface has gone back to Jamaica. John and Max take Charles with them to Jamaica for an all out war against Screwface and his drug empire.

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R, 93 min.

Directed by: Dwight H. Little

Release Date: October 5, 1990

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DVD Release Date: December 18, 2001

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  • November 7, 2009
    Steven Seagal was the man back in the hey day of mindless action movies, and this one was an interesting change from the usual cop thrillers.

    Seagal play a retiring DEA agent, having had enough of the drugs and evils of his job, so he quits, makes his confession and gos back hom...( read more)e to recuperate and forget about it all. The problem is, the Rastafarian gangs are taking over, taking drug dealing to a whole new level with provocative violence and stir crazy mythology, led by the psychotic Screwface, a supreme being amongst his men and feared by everyone. When Seagal interferes in a nightclub shootout, he and his family are cursed and marked for death by the gang, so its time to kick ass of course!

    Anyways, what i liked about this movie was the change of pace and the bad guys, the Jamaicans are a scary bunch when hopped up on drugs and twisted immortality. Of course, there is a plot and background to the story, but it disappears in the first half when Seagal loses his cool and declares war on the gangs.

    Action, things that go BOOOM and a pretty hectic car chase which ends with a nice jump into a jewelery story, and finally the showdown at the end which consists of a duel with swords.

    Anyways, the only problem you will face is understanding what the rastas are saying. I was alright with it, but hell it took me time to fully understand a rasta accent and language, so subtitles will help heaps. XD

    Anyways, another 90's action flick, and Seagal is smooth as usual. It even has a great scene in the crappy script, where Seagal meets his partner after killing one guy and watching a Rasta jump out a window to his death....

    "One thought he was immortal and the other thought he could fly. Both were wrong."


    XD
  • July 10, 2008
    Seagal in his typical "good guy cleaning up the streets from drugs" role, but this time it's against Jamaicans. Not his best role, this movie is disappointing and even throws in a twin brother for good (?) measure. It's unlike Seagal's other movies around this time, but not as ba...( read more)d as his later ones. Nice to see Keith David in this, though. He's an incredibly underrated actor.
  • March 2, 2008
    Seagal, Voodoo, I like it.
  • April 8, 2007
    More humourless butchery from the pony-tailed bonehead.
  • January 25, 2007
    decent seagal actin flick
  • November 11, 2009
    im gonna take you to the bank... the blood bank.
  • October 9, 2009
    Watched this years ago when I was still at school. Some of the movie still stands out so I guess it was pretty good.
  • September 27, 2009
    Seagal eats gay butt
  • August 6, 2009
    Gee thanks for the cocktail Steven. well its late we should be gettin home.... "well guys you dont wanna leve without gettin something for free, do you?" whaaa-? SNAAAAPPPPPP!!!!!
  • August 2, 2009
    i just saw this movie in the big-screen of my first time i was a kid with starring steven seagal's film. steven seagal of his third film into the action movie. i alway enjoy in every film with steven seagal's character that way he doing. wow jamaican villian screwface is little b...( read more)it creepin. there shock there lot of topless woman that i saw i was an kid, lmao.

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