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Overview

User Rating:
5.2/10   5,515 votes
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Director:
Dwight H. Little
Writers (WGA):
Michael Grais (written by) &
Mark Victor (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
5 October 1990 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
He's a good cop. In a bad mood. more
Plot:
Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Review: Taken
 (From The Hollywood News. 16 February 2009, 7:50 PM, PST)

It's Seagal vs. Vamps in Against the Dark
 (From Dread Central. 2 December 2008, 6:49 PM, PST)

User Comments:
One of Seagal's finest more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Steven Seagal ... John Hatcher
Basil Wallace ... Screwface

Keith David ... Max

Tom Wright ... Charles, Jamaican Cop
Joanna Pacula ... Leslie
Elizabeth Gracen ... Melissa

Bette Ford ... Kate Hatcher

Danielle Harris ... Tracey, John's Niece
Al Israel ... Tito Barco, Columbian Drug Lord

Arlen Dean Snyder ... Duvall
Victor Romero Evans ... Nesta

Michael Ralph ... Monkey
Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter ... Nago
Tony DiBenedetto ... Jimmy Fingers
Kevin Dunn ... Lt. Sal Roselli
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Screwface (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Germany:18 (video premiere) (cut) | West Germany:18 (video premiere) (cut) | Iceland:16 | UK:18 (DVD version) (cut) | Finland:K-18 (DVD version) (cut) | Finland:K-16 (VHS version) (cut) | Netherlands:12 (TV rating) | Netherlands:16 | Finland:K-18 (cut) (1991) | UK:18 (re-rating) (uncut) (2001) | South Korea:18 | Malaysia:18PL | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Australia:M (cut) | Australia:R | France:-12 | Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) | Norway:18 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R
Company:
Victor & Grais more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Steven Seagal wrote and performed the Song "John Crow" together with Jimmy Cliff ,this is the first singing appearance by Steven Seagal. more
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: After the car crashes into the mall, the people across the street don’t move until they get their cue. more
Quotes:
Screwface: Hey, where Nesta man?
Nago: [whispers in his ear] Nesta and Jimmy Fingers are dead at the hotel.
Screwface: Nesta dead. Who do it, the white boy, Hatcher.
[Nago nodes head]
Screwface: [Screwface throws table up and hits gang member with table leg]
Screwface: I want Hatcher dead. I want his family dead. If you can't kill him, I go kill him. Then I'm gonna kill you.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Wedlock (1991) more
Soundtrack:
John Crow more

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7 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
One of Seagal's finest, 22 July 2000
Author: (w.w.screwface) from london england

I cannot believe this film got such bad ratings as it is one of my favourite action flicks of all time. Marked for Death has Steven Seagal playing John Hatcher a cop whose out for revenge against a gang of Jamaican drug dealers. The film has some terrific action sequences and set pieces, example being the shopping centre fight which really showcases Seagal's talents. This has excellent pacing as well as good location shoots. The score for Marked for Death is amazing, suiting the film so well, giving it the right sinister kind of atmosphere. The voodoo elements were cool, Screwface has to be one of the best villains and the twist at the end is unexpected. The violence in the uncut version is some of the most brutally realistic you can find in a mainstream action flick, with Seagal snapping bones as if they were twigs. Be warned though, like most of Seagal's films, in the U.K Marked for Death was cut badly by the censors so nearly all of the bone breaking violence is now gone, leaving just a standard badly edited action film. If you want to see the real power of Marked for Death then you would be advised get your hands on the uncut versions somehow. The only minor flaw with this film is that the beginning in Mexico is a little ropey, but apart from that the only Seagal flick that Warner bros didn't make but Fox did, deserves a place next to Under Seige 2 as being one of my favourite Steven Seagal films.

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