Review of Marked for Death (1990) by Richard D — 29 Jul 2013

Near the start of this film, I thought it was going to be okay. It's really not. It starts out as a fairly routine police action film, but it has two main problems. It's biggest problem is that Seagal is clearly a raging asshole who's onscreen strutting is a constant annoyance.

I don't really demand of a star of this kind of film that he be able to act, but I do ask that his onscreen presence not be so noxious that it pollutes the whole film. A secondary problem is that Seagal's character is really a terrible cop despite the film's repeated claims to the contrary.

He never engages in anything recognizable as police work. He mostly just walks up to criminals and demands that they tell him what he wants to know. He seems surprised when that doesn't work. At least the character and the actor playing him are in synch .

.. they're both idiots.