In the last years Steven Seagal has turned himself into a joke, but let me take you further, to the year 88 whe the guy was still relevant, to his screen debut Above the LawNico Toscani (Steven Seagal) is a Chicago cop, son of Italian immigrants with an interest in martial arts that lead him as far as Japan, where he mastred aikido and other martial arts, this virtuosity led him to be remarked and recruited by the CIA, to serve in Vietnam for a short while, caused by his refusal to agree on severe interrogation techniques used by a superior Kurt Zagon (Henry Silva)
And since the world is a tiny place Nico who is now a honest Chi Cop married to Sara (Sharon Ston no less), is invistigating a routine drug deal, which turns out to be not such a routine drug deal, since it would involve explosives, Senate hearings, and the Invasion of a South American country funded with dirty money, leading to a nice big shodown, a la Charles Bronson, all this in the Jazzy athmosphere of the Reagan Era's Chicago
I watched that movie back in the nineties in a movie theater in Algiers, and it was so wonderful that we watched it several times, although we were short on pop culture references, this movie held still, and it's enough to say that the partner of Seagal is played by her blaxploitation majesty Pam Grier herself
Now is it still relevant, to some degree it is, Steve
n Seagal played a somehow autobiographical role (he learned martial arts in japan, like his character and was somehow invloved in governmental stuff), which means it did not need him to have actor's studio training, and some of the scenes are still action classic, and it's enough to be said that If you missed the eighties like Sina you should catch this one just to have an idea how the world was before the berlin reunition and the first invasion of iraq, good people were good, evil were evil, it was a whole diffrent mindset, and frankly it is righteous to miss it a little bit
n Seagal played a somehow autobiographical role (he learned martial arts in japan, like his character and was somehow invloved in governmental stuff), which means it did not need him to have actor's studio training, and some of the scenes are still action classic, and it's enough to be said that If you missed the eighties like Sina you should catch this one just to have an idea how the world was before the berlin reunition and the first invasion of iraq, good people were good, evil were evil, it was a whole diffrent mindset, and frankly it is righteous to miss it a little bitYear: 1988
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Steven Seagal, Sharon Stone, Pam Grier, Henry Silva
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