I enjoyed this when I first saw it in the early nineties but suspected when I watched it again it would have aged badly... I was pleasantly surprised to find it was still a lot of fun, sure its not Citizen Kane but it was never intended to be. This was always my favourite of the early Steven Seagal films; the plot is simple, the acting isn't the best in the world and the bad guys are truly incompetent but who cares the action scenes are great and at the end of the day that is why we watch Steven Seagal films.
Steven Seagal plays Mason Storm, an honest cop who films a mystery man talking to a gangster about a plot to assassinate a US senator unfortunately when he telephones his partner to inform him the call is monitored by corrupt cops within the department. That night, after he has dealt with some thugs at the local liquor store, he, his wife and child are ambushed at home and left for dead.
Not surprisingly while she dies he is merely wounded and left in a coma. He doesn't wake for another seven years by which time the mystery man is now a Senator with hopes of running for the vice presidency. Once awake his nurse informs the police that a John Doe has woken from a coma, they realise who he is and send people round to kill him. Luckily he escapes with his nurse, played by Kelly LeBrock to a house she is looking after for a friend. While he gets fighting fit again she contacts an old friend of Storm's who it turns out had been raising Storm's son. When the corrupt cops find out where he is the action really starts, they storm the house machine guns and shotguns blazing but are soon dispatched by our hero. Clearly criminals prefer to look cool shooting from the hip than actually aiming an accurate weapon at our hero. When he meets up with his son more action ensues and he ends up breaking the neck of a thug in front of his son and a crowd of onlookers... nobody seems too bothered though even though there is no indication to them why there is a fight occurring. He then heads off to the senator's house to fight more goons and bring the corrupt politician to justice.
I know that description makes the film seem less than wonderful but if you like '80s/'90s action films I'm sure you'll enjoy this example of the genre which features plenty of gun play and bone breaking martial arts.
Steven Seagal plays Mason Storm, an honest cop who films a mystery man talking to a gangster about a plot to assassinate a US senator unfortunately when he telephones his partner to inform him the call is monitored by corrupt cops within the department. That night, after he has dealt with some thugs at the local liquor store, he, his wife and child are ambushed at home and left for dead.
Not surprisingly while she dies he is merely wounded and left in a coma. He doesn't wake for another seven years by which time the mystery man is now a Senator with hopes of running for the vice presidency. Once awake his nurse informs the police that a John Doe has woken from a coma, they realise who he is and send people round to kill him. Luckily he escapes with his nurse, played by Kelly LeBrock to a house she is looking after for a friend. While he gets fighting fit again she contacts an old friend of Storm's who it turns out had been raising Storm's son. When the corrupt cops find out where he is the action really starts, they storm the house machine guns and shotguns blazing but are soon dispatched by our hero. Clearly criminals prefer to look cool shooting from the hip than actually aiming an accurate weapon at our hero. When he meets up with his son more action ensues and he ends up breaking the neck of a thug in front of his son and a crowd of onlookers... nobody seems too bothered though even though there is no indication to them why there is a fight occurring. He then heads off to the senator's house to fight more goons and bring the corrupt politician to justice.
I know that description makes the film seem less than wonderful but if you like '80s/'90s action films I'm sure you'll enjoy this example of the genre which features plenty of gun play and bone breaking martial arts.