Product Description

Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula,- Basil Wallace. Retired DEA agent John Hatcher returns home in search of serenity only to find that Jamaican underground drug lords have infiltrated the town which forces him immediately back into action. And their high priest leader Screwface may have met his match going head to head with John in this furiously-paced action thriller. 1990/color/93 min/R.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14847 in DVD
• Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
• Released on: 2010-05-11
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Dimensions: .15 pounds
• Running time: 93 minutes

Amazon.com
The glowering brutality that is aikido headbanger Steven Seagal's substitute for a star persona at least gives us a rancid taste of authenticity in this cookie-cutter action picture. This glum lug seems to really enjoy hurting people; he snaps limbs and shatters noses with visible relish. Pitted against a crew of Jamaican gangsters who invade his (white ethnic) Chicago neighborhood and threaten his family, retired DEA agent John Hatcher sets out to solve the case with robotic efficiency, kicking butt in just about every scene. Not quite as pudgy in this 1990 outing as he became a few films later, Seagal looks like the genuine, lethal article in the fight sequences, but like a hopeless amateur when he tries to act his way out of the waterlogged-paper-bag of a script. So what else is new? The one bright spot here is Basil Wallace, a mostly unsung actor who throws himself into the showy role of the Rasta gang-boss Screwface, a garishly scarred psycho with piercing ice-blue eyes. --David Chute