{"id":2157,"date":"2024-08-08T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:34:06","slug":"out-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/08\/08\/out-for-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Out for Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Out for Justice <\/strong>(1991)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, strong violence, nudity, sexual content, drug abuse)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: John Flynn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: David Lee Henry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: David Michael Frank\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Ric Waite\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Release date: April 12, 1991 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach, Jo Champa, Shareen Mitchell, Sal Richards, Gina Gershon, Jay Acovone, Nick Corello, Robert LaSardo, John Toles-Bey, Joe Spataro, Ronald Maccone, Julianna Margulies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Box Office: $39.6M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0As much as I love Steven Seagal\u2019s debut film Above the Law, I\u2019d have to say Out for Justice <\/strong>is my favorite movie of his. It\u2019s a super-violent cop actioner starring Stone Face Seagal as a Brooklyn cop going after the crack-addicted psychopath who killed his partner in front of his family. In terms of plot, it doesn\u2019t win any points for originality, but it delivers a lot of bang for your bucks.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Seagal plays Gino, a Brooklyn-born cop who finds himself conflicted after the brutal slaying of his partner Bobby (Spataro, The Return of Superfly) by wannabe wise guy Richie Madano (Forsythe, Stone Cold), a drug-crazed homicidal maniac who pulls a woman from her car and shoots her in the head just minutes after he kills Bobby.<\/p>\n

\u00a0On the one hand, Gino\u2019s a cop. He knows what he\u2019s required to do. On the other hand, he knows how things work in his neighborhood. He\u2019s expected to stand back and let the local Mafia deal with Richie. He\u2019s an embarrassment and they mean to kill him. Naturally, Gino is the kind of cop that likes to do things his own way. Armed with a shotgun, he conducts his own manhunt, hoping to find the killer before his Mob buddy Frankie (Richards, Fighting Back) does. He too intends to kill Richie. For the Mob, it\u2019s business. For Gino, it\u2019s personal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Meanwhile, Madano continues his rampage through the neighborhood with death and destruction following his every step. He causes his family tremendous grief, especially his scumbag brother Vinnie (DeSando, New Jack City) who\u2019s constantly hassled and assaulted by mobsters and Gino. In one truly awesome sequence, Gino makes short work of Vinnie\u2019s pool hall and customers. He knocks one fellow\u2019s teeth out with a cue ball wrapped in a handkerchief. There\u2019s also a great scene in a butcher cop where Gino effortlessly takes down a bunch of goons who attack him on Richie\u2019s orders. Yes, a meat cleaver comes into play. Then there\u2019s the climactic shootout in which some poor dope gets his leg blown off. If nothing else, Out for Justice <\/strong>is extremely violent. It might be the most violent of Seagal\u2019s movies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One of things I admire about Out for Justice <\/strong>is that director John Flynn (Best Seller) attempts to elicit an actual performance from his star. Although it hardly qualifies for an Oscar, it\u2019s Seagal\u2019s best performance to date. Well, it\u2019s the closest thing to a performance he\u2019s ever given anyway. He\u2019s a man of conflicted loyalties. He\u2019s a dedicated cop who still respects the local Mafia don (Maccone, Goodfellas) despite their differing values. He\u2019s also a man of comparative depth. His decision on how to deal with the current situation is made complicated by his loyalty to Richie\u2019s father who took care of him after his own dad died. The action star gets to test his dramatic chops in the scene where he tells his estranged wife (Champa, Monkey Trouble) about his father. There\u2019s not a lot of emotional range, but it\u2019s more than he ever did under any other director. Still, in the end he\u2019s still Steven Seagal, breaker of bones and ass kicker extraordinaire.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Forsythe absolutely devours the scenery as Richie, a guy too far gone to be helped. Everybody, even his own family, lives in fear of what he might do if they cross him let alone try to turn him in. Forsythe excels at playing intense characters. He\u2019s great in Out for Justice<\/strong>. Jerry Orbach of Law & Order, always a welcome presence, has a nice turn as Gino\u2019s CO. It\u2019s also always great to see character actor Robert LaSardo (Hard to Kill) play a bad guy in one of these movies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There is plenty of action afoot in Out for Justice<\/strong>. It does exactly what it\u2019s supposed to do as a kick-ass action movie. Every few minutes, we get a scene of Seagal taking down one or several dirtbags. Whether he uses a gun or his hands, he\u2019s a total killing machine. Even better, the people he kills in Out for Justice <\/strong>truly deserve it. Flynn goes the extra mile by having Gino rescue a German shepherd puppy and beat down its abusive former owner. As an animal lover, I LOVED it. Excuse me for sounding fannish, but this movie rocks HARD!\"\"<\/p>\n

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Out for Justice (1991)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, strong violence, nudity, sexual content, drug abuse)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: John Flynn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: David Lee Henry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: David Michael Frank\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Ric Waite\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Release date: April 12, 1991 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach, Jo Champa, Shareen Mitchell, Sal Richards, Gina Gershon, Jay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kick-ass-actioners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Out-for-Justice-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}