This is one of those first few movies which represent Seagal's best. The story moves by quickly, the action never stops, and the quality is excellent.

Seagal's bombastic aikido style is a sure show-stopper. The action is so captivating that it almost renders the story unnecessary. The story consists of Seagal searching out the murderer of a friend. There are other elements to the plot, but that is the gist. It would do no good to attempt to detail the plot however, as the story is lost in a flurry of fists and knees.

If you are a fan of Seagal's bone-crunching, show-stopping, hard-hitting martial arts style, you will simply love this one.

Although this is quite pretentious and philosophically preachy, this has to be one of my absolute favorites of his older movies.

I love it!

It rates a 7.4 from...

the Fiend :.

When detective Joe Spataro is gunned down in broad daylight in front of his family by a gangster known to the immediate world because both grew up in that area, bad guy William Forsythe doesn't reckon on the fact that Spataro's partner Steven Segall also grew up in the same area and knows him as well. A bad man Segall to have on your case and for the next 90 minutes it's all about Segall on the hunt for Forsythe.

Forsythe made a career of playing bad guys, he played Al Capone in the Nineties revival of The Untouchables, but he's at his meanest here. He's all wigged out on cocaine whether he sniffs it or smokes the crack/ cocaine, he's just one loose cannon. The mob doesn't even want to have anything to do with him. In fact Forsythe in Out For Justice makes Joe Pesci's Tommy T from Goodfellas look like Mr. Rogers. Forsythe is the best thing about Out For Justice.

When what's behind all this is finally revealed, Spataro was one dumb fool although he shouldn't have died for the reasons given. Let's just say he should have exercised better self control in a few areas.

Segall impassively stalks his way through the film doing whatever he has to do to get Forsythe. It's not about the bad guys, it's about revenge for his boyhood pal on another boyhood pal.

Fans of Steven Segall will just love this violence fest. Every other minute he's doing bodily harm to somebody to get at Forsythe. Enough violence to go around for those who have that taste. The acting will never win any awards. Location shooting in Brooklyn definitely helps, I recognized quite a few of the locations.

One of Seagal's most brain-dead movies, OUT FOR JUSTICE is a film basically lacking in a plot altogether. Instead, Seagal's investigation into a psychotic murder spree is simply a reason to have lots and lots of gratuitous violence and carnage portrayed in the name of entertainment. That's fine by me! Seriously, although the cops-and-robbers type plot is a clichéd one (this movie bears strong similarities to two of Seagal's previous movies),the execution and action are what makes this an enjoyable viewing experience.

From a butcher's shop to a pool hall, Seagal scours the haunts of the low life and breaks as many arms and heads as is humanly possible in a short space of time in his quest for revenge. Highlights include a pool ball being wrapped in a handkerchief and used to brain a number of criminal thugs, various sharp implements being brought into play at the fight in the butcher's shop, and the incredibly violent showdown in which Seagal gives psycho villain William Forsythe a thorough going over. My best advice is to watch this movie if you're a fan of Seagal or you enjoy watching screen bad guys get their backsides kicked by a martial arts master; fans looking for something more serious or plot-focused would be advised to look elsewhere, as you're wasting your time with this one. For die-hard violence fans only, who will lap it up.