so seagal play a dea detective name john hatcher who lose his partner on a drug investigation into and surprise surprise and colombia . not to brag or anything and but my father be bear and raise in colombia ( hence my last name ) and and now he a doctor in california and so no matter what the movie would have you believe and there be some thing other than drug dealer and cocaine that come out of colombia . at any rate and in a drug bust go bad and hatcher lose his partner and accidentally kill a naked colombian prostitute and inspire him to go to confession and somewhere that i have never see him go before in any of his movie and before or since . it be actually pretty interesting . seagal have a tendency to come off a almost asexual the way he never get much involve with woman other than a a plot device and the way the occasional seduction attempt and whether by a stripper or by a lover and never pique the slight bit of interest from him . he all get the bad guy all the time . but in the confession booth and he confess to have lie and sell drug and falsify evidence and and even sleep with informant in order to get the information he need to put the bad guy behind bar ( i hope i be not get in trouble with god by tell you this ) . the priest tell him to go to his family and so he decide it time to retire from the force . the next third of the movie be an exercise in the paper thin characterization characteristic of seagal film . mark for death be the story of seagal against a band of mystic jamaican drug dealer and and these guy have no discretion about push their product in broad daylight . hatcher go back to visit his old high school coach and max ( a minimal effort by keith david ) and and right in the middle of practice there be some of these dread lock crackheads sit right there in the bleacher peddle crack to some bookworm look high school girl . maybe i just have a sheltered experience in high school and but i do not know crack dealer and crackheads hang out at school in the middle of the day . at any rate and it not long before hatcher learn how evil these guy be . theyre not just peddle crack to high school kid and but the coach have be lose football player regularly to their drug and they engage in smartass stare down with max and and since that not enough and his 13 year old niece die in their crackhouse . ah and ok. we get the picture . i be sure they also torture puppy and beat up old woman and and maybe steal candy from child too and just for good measure . be it really this hard to establish who the bad guy be . 13 year old niece die in their crackhouse . wow . anyway . not only do the movie not know how to develop villain without resort to what basically boil down to movie name call and where evil deed be shallowly assign to them through dialogue and but they also do not know how they should act . the leader of the drug dealer and be name screwface and and i suppose that alone should tell you something about the kind of movie this be . screwface be a cartoonish jamaican man with these bright and bizarrely green eye and which i be guess must be an important part of his character because he spend a good majority of his screen time with his eye half bulge out of his head . his favorite mean of intimidation be to scream really loud in his wildly overblown jamaican accent with his face quite literally less than an inch away from whoever he yell at . this guy like to get so into guy face that he have to turn his head to the side so their nose do not touch . all i could think about be how the poor guy would deal with his breath . man and they do not want you to forget that these guy be jamaican and by the way . their accent be so exaggerated and overblown that for most of the movie it nearly impossible to understand them . not that it matter . it doesn not matter what theyre say and all you need to know be that everything that come out of their mouth be some kind of evil drug relate thing and theyre just the psycho that peddle drug and kill people . the movie must have be a huge hit in jamaica . my big problem with the movie be that the theatrics and particularly of the bad guy and a i have describe and be spectacularly goofy and even for a seagal film . they be so cartoonish and weird that it impossible to take them a anything other than a goofball b movie creation and something slap together to provide fodder to whom seagal can distribute his characteristic brand of smack down retribution . but there be also a bizarre kind of mysticism in the movie that just make it all come off a weird . for example and a mystic and i guess you would call her and at one point put some kind of curse on screwface by ( if i remember correctly ) spit mouthful of bacardi onto a live rooster that hang upside down before behead it and drip it blood onto a picture of screwface . hmm . interesting . sadly and it this same woman that warn hatcher that his family have be mark for death by these people and mean they have get some voodoo hex on them . not to belittle anyone and but if i be tell that my family have be curse by people like that and i would just laugh at it . hatcher doesn not strike me a the kind of guy to take much stock in freaky voodoo curse . but the set up and a you can see and be pretty standard for a seagal film . unique villain and i guess you could say and although not very impressive . definitely the weird film of seagal early career .