Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: John Flynn
Year: 1991
Rating: 
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Lets get the plot out of the way, what there is of it. Drug dealer Richie (William Forsythe) shoots cop Bobbie Lupo in broad daylight in front of his wife and kids. Bobbie’s partner Gino (Steven Seagal) goes looking for Richie, busting up his hangouts and leaning on everyone who knows Richie to learn his whereabouts. That’s it!
But Out for Justice is a camp masterpiece, right from the opening credits during which our hero plants a whore beating pimp headfirst through a car’s windshield.
All through Out for Justice, Steven Seagal does his wooden indian routine, with his oddly mincing duck walk, cutting through innumerable thugs like a hot knife through butter with his patented chop socky skills. In a running unintentional joke, thugs keep losing the use of their appendages, saying things like “My hand, my hand,” and “My leg, my leg,” and “My knee, my knee,” always cutting to a reaction shot from Seagal, who never so much as changes expression.
Given the depiction of Seagal’s Gino as an unstoppable force, Richie doesn’t register as much of a threat, and there is zero suspense along the way or any doubt as to the final outcome. But you’ve got to give director Joe Flynn a hand for keeping things moving. The action scenes boast crisp, easy to follow visuals and the film looks great.
Ultimately, Out for Justice functions best as unintentional self-parody, and a great one at that.
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