Hard to Kill
1990 Directed by Bruce Malmuth
Synopsis
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death
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"I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!"
5 reasons this gets 5 stars:
1) The name Mason Storm. This might be the best action hero name along with Johnny Utah from Point Break.
2) Lines like the above and "This is for my wife. Fuck you and die"
3) One of the funniest workout montages I've seen.
4) A hilarious sex scene
5) Seagal's ponytail
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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy,
This movie is balls. -
Steven Segal's movies are guilty pleasures primarily because if you've seen one Steven Segal movie, you've seen them all. The plot is usually convoluted ( then again so are the plots of most mass produced, cheaply made martial arts movies ). The acting is stilted and the dialogue forced. Segal also surrounds himself with lesser actors, so his limited range is not as noticeable. Of course, every once in a while he lets an accomplished actor into the cast but, I suspect it is never on purpose.
I digress. Let me expand on my Chinese menu of Steven Segal movie cliches -- where you choose one from column A, one from column B and pair it with the main course…
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Stands up surprisingly well, and unlike a lot of crime action films nowadays it delivers simple, well staged violent entertainment.
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I think damn near impossible to kill would be a better title. This over the top actioner starring the ponytailed one, is ruined by his squeeze at the time Kelly LeBrock, otherwise an average bone breaking actioner.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Movie #39 of The June Challenge
"I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. The blood bank!" might be the greatest single line in the history of recorded film. "Would you like a little pussy?" as a nurse puts a kitten on a comatose and impeccably bearded Seagal's pillow is the greatest scene of all time.
This is one of those rare movies that's so absolutely absurd that you start to gain respect for it as the film goes on. Think Roadhouse with a pony tail.
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WOW, this was a stupid movie, but a very entertaining stupid movie. I was laughing through most of it at how cheesy it could get.
I think the highlight has to be when Segal and LeBrock are trying to drive away from an army of corrupt cops, and as they shoot at the jeep's windshield one cut shows them, then the shooters, then it cuts back to the jeep where it's clear only one person is in the jeep, cut to shooters and the cut back to jeep, where Segal is on the the passenger side all of a sudden???
Movie is loaded with stuff like that. Segal is just an awful actor, but he's so bad you gotta root…
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Not the best early Seagal film, but still quite entertaining, and Steven with that epic beard was a great visual.
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'I'm gonna take you to the bank Senator Trent...to the blood bank.'
Seagal somehow disappoints and even the action disappoints in this 90's but 80's generic action film with...not an awful lot of action?
It took me three days to get through this, whilst it isn't a horrible movie, it just ends up being something that a movie really shouldn't be...
and that's boring.
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one of seagal's best. it's funny (mostly unintentionally), well choreographed, and just plain cool.
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Vintage Seagal.
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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy,
This movie is balls. -
1980s action flick that hasn’t aged well, Seagal wasn’t that good and I really wonder why he was such an icon in the 80s. This one actually has a pretty engaging story and the pairing with Lebrock (his real life wife at the time) makes this at least watchable if not entertaining.
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Steven Seagal plays 'Mason Storm' (I'm not making it up), a cop, whose wife and presumed son are killed and Storm put into a coma. Seven years laters he awakes, evades capture by wheeling his hospital bed around the hospital ward and is able to use chopsticks within forty minutes of coming round. This basically set the tone; a series of dubious action set pieces stuck together by Seagal's wooden acting. The fight scenes are just not hard hitting enough, not slick enough, but the one-liners and other comic elements just about hold the attention.