Review of Marked for Death (1990) by Ola G — 13 Mar 2015

After watching this Steven Seagal action flick from back in his heyday, I realized I'd never actually seen this one. It's nothing spectacular but it's an effective vehicle for Seagal and competently made, which you really can't say for most of his direct-to-video action flicks.

Directed by Dwight H. Little, who would follow-up this film with Brandon Lee's breakout film, "Rapid Fire," which during my video store clerk days I would frequently make the case for as the best American approximation of a Hong Kong action film, though that argument ended once John Woo came to the states and became the first Asian director to direct a major studio action film.

But back to this film in particular, this time Seagal is pitted against voodoo worshiping drug dealers who challenged him with the magic, machetes, martial arts and lots and lots of guns. It's pretty much everything you can hope for in a Seagal action flick and it does deliver if that's your sort of thing.

Joanna Pacula appears as one of his better female co-stars.