Out for Justice is set in Brooklyn, New York & starts as high on crack American Italian gangster scumbag Richie Madano (William Forsythe) shoots dead a cop named Bobby Lupo (Joe Spataro) in the middle of the street in front of his wife & children. That was Richie's first big mistake because Bobby was hard as nails NYPD cop Gino Felino's (producer Steven Seagal) partner & best friend, Richie's second big mistake was thinking he could take Gino on & sticking around the neighbourhood because Gino is a man on a mission. Gino ask's his Captain (Jerry Orbach) for a shotgun & an unmarked which he gets & sets out to find Richie by any means necessary...
Directed by John Flynn this was early Seagal, only his fourth film in fact & I have to admit that it's pretty good by Seagal standards. The script by David Lee Henry doesn't take any prisoners as it's an incredibly violent & brutal action flick with Seagal impaling guy's to walls with meat cleavers, a pool ball wrapped in a towel to knock some guy's teeth out, a bad guy has his lower leg blown off with a shotgun, Richie who is constantly high on crack throughout the entire film dragging a woman out of the window of her car & shooting her point blank in the head & a constant barrage of profanity & bad language, I don't know what the profanity count on Out for Justice is but it seems like every sentence has some form of abusive terminology. I haven't mentioned the story yet have I? Well, I don't think I really need to as there isn't much of one, I mean someone kills one of Seagal's buddy's & Seagal either kills or beats up just about everyone he meets to get to the scumbag who did it, what more do you want? Forget about any meaningful character's or dialogue as Out for Justice is all about it's brutal set-pieces & that in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing as you can just forget about the silly story, the bad dialogue & Seagal's silly ponytail & enjoy Out for Justice for what it is, a foul mouthed excessively violent 90's action flick like the kind they just don't make anymore. Just make sure you pick up an uncut version, as far as the UK is concerned the Warner Bros. DVD is uncut while all other previously released VHS copies here were cut by about a minute.
Director Flynn does alright, there are no cheesy one-liners here & Out for Justice is as serious & deadpan in tone as they come. As already mentioned the violence here is brutal with a fight in a butcher's & a pool bar both being very violent as Seagal takes no prisoners & has no mercy. Most of the action revolves around fights or shoot outs although there is a decent car chase at the start, there aren't many big stunts & disappointingly nothing blows up. I must admit I thought the accents were bad especially Seagal who, lets face it, can't act at all. He sort of mumbles his way through Out for Justice but then the dialogue is secondary to the action anyway so it's bearable. I don't understand why everyone has to swear so much though, it becomes silly & distracting after a while as entire sentences seem made up of profanity.
Technically the film is fine although one suspects the budget wasn't anything amazing, it's well made enough if somewhat unspectacular. Some of it was actually shot in Brooklyn while Los Angeles was also used as a location. The acting isn't too bad, Seagal is Seagal while Forsythe makes for a suitably scumbag villain, John Leguizamo turns up in a small role while Gina Gershon provides the glamour.
Out for Justice is definitely one of Seagal's better efforts, he still looks a bit on the flabby side but he looks tough here unlike his more recent efforts. A hard, fast moving & brutal action flick that's worth a watch if you don't mind the violence & profanity. Made under the title of The Price of Our Blood which is just crap really & it's a good job they changed it to Out for Justice for it's release.
Directed by John Flynn this was early Seagal, only his fourth film in fact & I have to admit that it's pretty good by Seagal standards. The script by David Lee Henry doesn't take any prisoners as it's an incredibly violent & brutal action flick with Seagal impaling guy's to walls with meat cleavers, a pool ball wrapped in a towel to knock some guy's teeth out, a bad guy has his lower leg blown off with a shotgun, Richie who is constantly high on crack throughout the entire film dragging a woman out of the window of her car & shooting her point blank in the head & a constant barrage of profanity & bad language, I don't know what the profanity count on Out for Justice is but it seems like every sentence has some form of abusive terminology. I haven't mentioned the story yet have I? Well, I don't think I really need to as there isn't much of one, I mean someone kills one of Seagal's buddy's & Seagal either kills or beats up just about everyone he meets to get to the scumbag who did it, what more do you want? Forget about any meaningful character's or dialogue as Out for Justice is all about it's brutal set-pieces & that in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing as you can just forget about the silly story, the bad dialogue & Seagal's silly ponytail & enjoy Out for Justice for what it is, a foul mouthed excessively violent 90's action flick like the kind they just don't make anymore. Just make sure you pick up an uncut version, as far as the UK is concerned the Warner Bros. DVD is uncut while all other previously released VHS copies here were cut by about a minute.
Director Flynn does alright, there are no cheesy one-liners here & Out for Justice is as serious & deadpan in tone as they come. As already mentioned the violence here is brutal with a fight in a butcher's & a pool bar both being very violent as Seagal takes no prisoners & has no mercy. Most of the action revolves around fights or shoot outs although there is a decent car chase at the start, there aren't many big stunts & disappointingly nothing blows up. I must admit I thought the accents were bad especially Seagal who, lets face it, can't act at all. He sort of mumbles his way through Out for Justice but then the dialogue is secondary to the action anyway so it's bearable. I don't understand why everyone has to swear so much though, it becomes silly & distracting after a while as entire sentences seem made up of profanity.
Technically the film is fine although one suspects the budget wasn't anything amazing, it's well made enough if somewhat unspectacular. Some of it was actually shot in Brooklyn while Los Angeles was also used as a location. The acting isn't too bad, Seagal is Seagal while Forsythe makes for a suitably scumbag villain, John Leguizamo turns up in a small role while Gina Gershon provides the glamour.
Out for Justice is definitely one of Seagal's better efforts, he still looks a bit on the flabby side but he looks tough here unlike his more recent efforts. A hard, fast moving & brutal action flick that's worth a watch if you don't mind the violence & profanity. Made under the title of The Price of Our Blood which is just crap really & it's a good job they changed it to Out for Justice for it's release.