shakercoola A fast paced crime thriller loaded with action and violence. It's very entertaining - one sequence in a bar is very well directed and stands out as the best example of Seagal's elan and fighting prowess as a highly skilled martial arts practitioner and he is convincing as a maverick cop growing up in a criminal underworld but who has chosen the right track. His vengeance, howeverm brings him up against a former schoolfriend turned crinimal who loose in Brooklyn and in a killing frenzy.

The Grand Master Out for Justice is only memorable for the action scenes and Steven Seagal showcasing his martial arts prowess back when he was fit and athletic compared to today where he outweighs an overweight Elvis Presley. Truth be bold some parts are very corny, and the acting is rather ordinary. If you don't take things seriously and just disengage your brain for 91 minutes and enjoy the brutally violent fight scenes you'll find that this movie will fill in your time.Hard nosed renegade NYPD Detective Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) goes after Richie Madano (William Forsythe), an out of control, drug addicted criminal who brutally murders Gino's friend and partner Bobby Lupo (Joe Spataro) in broad daylight in front of his wife and children. After getting approval from Captain Ronnie Donziger (the late Jerry Orbach) Gino is given a shotgun, an unmarked police car, and a licence to navigate through Brooklyn and its seedy underbelly to take down Richie and his goons especially after the mafia who views Ritchie as a loose cannon and will not interfere with Gino's manhunt of Ritchie. It is also revealed that Gino, Bobby and Ritchie grew up together in Brooklyn and Ritchie has been a common enemy throughout most of their lives. As Ritchie continues his homicidal rampage, Gino relentlessly pursues Ritchie to avenge the death of his friend and partner Bobby.Steven Seagal does what he does best here by kicking butt and taking names. After exploding onto the Hollywood scene with his debut movie Above the Law (1988) Steven Seagal was a mainstay as an action superstar throughout the late 80's and for a majority of the 1990's. It's a shame that his career has all but evaporated and with his supersized belly he finds himself appearing in lethargic direct to DVD action movies.William Forsythe has always been an effective villain and here in Out for Justice, he is the perfect fit as the psychotic, drug addled Ritchie who has gone on a warpath through Brooklyn.Alongside the late Jerry Orbach keep an eye out for Gina Gershon (Face/Off), Julianna Margulies (ER), Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos) and John Leguizamo (Carlito's Way) in small roles.Out for Justice is enjoyable for it's fight scenes and Steven Seagal doing what he does best, but don't have high expectations and you'll enjoy it for what it is.7/10.

Prismark10 Steven Seagal was leaner, meaner and had his own hair when he first started out making tough visceral action films. Well he still has his own hair but it comes originally from a shop and his actions films these days are flabby and lazy like him.He plays tough cop Gino an Italian American cop in Brooklyn who grew up with hoods and one of them Ritchie (William Forysthe) is on a crime spree that involved killing Gino's fellow cop in broad daylight. He even starts killing innocent bystanders and his psycho antics even alarms the local Mafia bosses.Gino is a lone wolf, he does not believe in having back up. In fact he thinks some of his fellow cops are more crooked than the mob. He is happy to walk into a bar and beat up hardened criminals to get information for the whereabouts of Ritchie and his gang. He even goes to Ritchie's frightened and law abiding parents and tells them that he will kill him when he finds him.The story is repetitive as Gino goes here and there looking for Ritchie beating anyone who stands in his way in brutal fashion such as the hoodlum pinned to the wall by a cleaver.The broad acting is left to Forsythe who chews up the scenery as Ritchie as he realises the script has little to offer him as an actor apart from terrorising people.

chuck-reilly Steven Seagal's action movie "Out for Justice" is short on plot and long on bashing heads in and shooting bad guys full of holes. The body count is so high in this movie that you'd need a degree in Calculus to keep up with it. The plot: Seagal is Gino, a cop from the old neighborhood who's not very happy that his partner Bobby has been killed by Richie (a deranged William Forsythe). There are a few complications along the way before Seagal is able to administer his brand of "justice." These so-called complications do nothing to get in the way of what this movie is all about: vicious beatings and murders with plenty of flowing blood. Also in the cast is Gina Gershon and veteran Broadway actor Jerry Orbach. In one scene, Orbach (a fellow cop) tells Seagal that he's "getting too old for this." I think he means this particular movie and not the police work. Luckily for viewers, Gina looks smashingly good as does the rest of the female cast members. She and the girls provide a welcome respite from the chaos and mayhem that are featured endlessly in this movie. For fans of this type of film, Seagal's brand of vengeance will definitely satisfy their thirst. All others interested in things like story-line, characterizations, and any kind of a moral to the proceedings will have to look elsewhere. As for William Forsythe, his final beating takes up nearly five minutes of screen time. "I like pain," he tells Seagal before he gets slammed for the umpteenth time. Unfortunately, the audience has to suffer through it too. For comic relief, a stray dog relieves itself on one of Seagal's victims. That about sums up this movie.