Targeted by the mob and its political supporters, hired assassins leave LAPD Detective Mason Storm for dead. Seven years later, he recovers from a deep coma, demanding justice and the opport... Read allTargeted by the mob and its political supporters, hired assassins leave LAPD Detective Mason Storm for dead. Seven years later, he recovers from a deep coma, demanding justice and the opportunity to get even.Targeted by the mob and its political supporters, hired assassins leave LAPD Detective Mason Storm for dead. Seven years later, he recovers from a deep coma, demanding justice and the opportunity to get even.
Kelly LeBrock
- Andy Stewart
- (as Kelly Le Brock)
William Sadler
- Senator Vernon Trent
- (as Bill Sadler)
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- TriviaKelly Le Brock had pretty much retired from acting at the time this movie was made and only did it as a favor for her husband. In retrospect she calls the movie "Hard to Watch" or "Hard to Believe."
- GoofsMason isn't filming at all when Senator Trent steps into the light. He is instead trying to adjust the camera. The Senator shouldn't be on tape, therefore.
- Quotes
Senator Vernon Trent: You can take that to the bank!
Mason Storm: I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!
- Alternate versionsThe Australian free to air version was edited for television with some violent scenes and f words edited to meet the standards for a M classification to be screen at 8:30am. Later broadcasts relaxed their standards with some screenings later classified AV or AV15+.
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One of Seagal's Better Action Films
Steven Seagal plays a police officer investigating a potential underground deal on a local pier when he is discovered. Later that night, his family is brutally murdered in front of him and he is left for dead. Actually in a coma, he wakes up seven years later and with the help of a nurse tries to track down the men who killed his wife. (The audience knows from the very beginning, but Seagal has to jog his memory.) Of the Seagal films, all of which basically have the same idea, this is one of the best. An early scene shows Seagal busting up a robbery at a local liquor store, throwing the robbers through glass doors and into display cases. This is what you're going to see again and again throughout the film, so if you don't want to see men get their arms twisted and bodies thrown in the air, you're watching the wrong movie. But you should know this if you know who Seagal is.
William Sadler co-stars as the evil senator bent on gaining ultimate power. This is one of Sadler's earlier roles, but a fairly large one. Unfortunately for him, he has to say the line "you can take that to the bank" around fifteen times. It really only needed to be said three or four to get the point across. Everything after that just suggests the writers had short-term memory and assumed the audience does, too.
Kicks, punches, arm twists and such. Steven Seagal. If this is what you want, this is your film. Sure, the film is critically not rated very high, and that's understandable -- it's not a "deep" film by any means. It's just a lot of butt-kicking. But you knew that, didn't you?
William Sadler co-stars as the evil senator bent on gaining ultimate power. This is one of Sadler's earlier roles, but a fairly large one. Unfortunately for him, he has to say the line "you can take that to the bank" around fifteen times. It really only needed to be said three or four to get the point across. Everything after that just suggests the writers had short-term memory and assumed the audience does, too.
Kicks, punches, arm twists and such. Steven Seagal. If this is what you want, this is your film. Sure, the film is critically not rated very high, and that's understandable -- it's not a "deep" film by any means. It's just a lot of butt-kicking. But you knew that, didn't you?
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Seven Year Storm
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Box office
- Budget
- $11,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $47,410,827
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,213,631
- Feb 11, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $47,410,827
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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