Runtime: 95 minutes
Directed by: Bruce Malmuth
Starring: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler, Frederick Coffin, Branscombe Richmond
From: Warner Bros.
Unlike Mason Storm, I wasn’t upset that I missed the Oscars. To clarify, yesterday was a day where a drive was made to spend time w/ family and eat at a restaurant fancy by my shabby standards. I did not arrive home until two hours after it began. Not watching a ceremony hosted by a brutally unfunny “comedian” and see awards handed out involving films I mainly did not see… nor am that interested in seeing. As always, they sometimes got it wrong; this is why instead I was happy to revisit this film, despite it starring a person who from all evidence is a rather bad human being. The same principle of separating the artist from the art will occur when one day (possibly far in the future) I’ll do new reviews for a few other Seagal movies during his prime era.
The film starts in 1983, April 11th to be exact; this was because Seagal’s Storm complained about missing the Oscars due to his participation in a stakeout; he missed out on Gandhi cleaning house that night. He filmed a mob meeting which involved a politician… and Storm’s fellow police officers. His family is soon then killed and he is in a coma for seven years. He suddenly awakes, perhaps after realizing his nurse was Kelly LeBrock. Via Chinese herbs and acupuncture, Mason soon raises a storm as he looks for revenge. OK, there is a training montage where he attempts to get back in fighting shape but it still strains credulity.
Then again, this is a film where a long stretch exists where Seagal isn’t breaking limbs and kicking ass; instead, he has to act with his then-wife and to be blunt, that’s like the blind leading the blind when it comes to thespian talent. That isn’t entirely fair for a silly B-movie like Hard to Kill; noting that I would have liked more of William Sadler as the slimeball villain is a fairer criticism.
Even so, I was still entertained by this silly plot, the bone-crunching action, and getting to see dudes gets wrecked to an amazingly of its time score… if you grew up watching films like these back in the day, it is possible to have a good time by taking this to the bank… the blood bank.
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