What Happened To Steven Seagal? - Out For Justice (1991) 

its a stone cold classic this

"I seen the top of her head" 🤣

@@JamesWho1Anyone seen Richie

It goes downhill really fast after this one...

Yeah that entire bar scene is the best thing ever.

The waddle

He needs a body double just for some of his lines 😅

​@@devwking5no he doesn't 😂 he speaks fine even though his body has become worn from years of relentless combat 😢

When he walks up stairs, it’s the stairs that need the stunt double!

@@whatwouldwesleycook9759 bro really? He'd native dance circles around you 😆

those first few movies were kinda legit.

the added filler montages too. as far as steven being invincible, that was his gimmick and i dug it. after Segal shit his pants in this, extremally cocky attitude during under siege and his ego....his gimmick got old and so did his films. william forsyth is the shit!!!! i like him and clancy brown. very underrated.

It’s one of the best martial arts movies

Nah, the purpose of this film was similar to The Dark Knight -- Seagal was an immovable object and Forsythe was an unstoppable force. The whole point was that you wanted to see two fearless guys finally duke it out at the end. This is one of the rare times where Steven coming across as invincible made sense because the entire build-up for the movie was to finally see these two throwdown and for someone who wasn't afraid of Richie to finally give him his comeuppance. In that regard, I think this film worked perfectly for that premise. As for his other earlier films -- Seagal definitely had his toughest time in Marked for Death and Above The Law, the two films where he arguably took the most damage from the villains (also Hard to Kill, but only during the first half, then he becomes invincible during the second half). I thought Seagal films were great for their gritty, grounded, street-level stories. These days we rarely get these kind of films -- they're usually thrillers or poor imitations of Taken/John Wick. But what made Seagal's earlier works so good was because they had a lot of street-level believability to them and the fight scenes were wicked brutal.

@@Billy-bc8pk It’s interesting you mention Above The Law, because that’s the one that got me thinking about this issue. In that movie, he gets tied to a chair and tortured, including pain inducing injections....yet it makes to difference to the final showdown. He’s captured, tortured, breaks free and kills all the baddies with no actual difficulty or impairment to his abilities. It’s like the similar scene in True Lies, except THAT was played for laughs. This wasn’t. The damage done to Seagal doesn’t matter because it doesn’t pose any setback beyond a few minutes of watching Henry De Silva having to speak some really stupid dialogue. It’s the John Wayne Problem. JW would often get shot “in the shoulder” to show that he wasn’t invincible, but it ultimately wouldn’t matter. It simply emphasises his effective invulnerability, because the damage inflicted is narratively superficial, and actually becomes the opposite of dramatic stakes. Instead of showing him to be human, that he can suffer and be hurt, it instead highlights that, from the perspective of the story, he actually can’t. Seagal never learned that lesson and in Out For Justice, he literally takes a bullet in the shoulder right before the final fight with Richie...and it makes no difference to anything...and after all his previous brutality, Richie spends a few minutes being thrown around a kitchen before being killed. There’s never a point during that fight where it looks like Richie might even be a threat to Gino. Contrast that to “Nobody”, a recent movie that seemed like just another in the “Ex CIA comes out of retirement when pushed too far” trope....when the protagonist in THAT finally admits its time to stop pretending to be a meek Everyman, and stands up to the thugs on the bus...that fight is BRUTAL, he’s a MESS, it gets painful to watch because while he Farages Them Up good and proper, the reality of him being outnumbered by younger guys means they get their hits in and he suffers for it.

For me this was when Steven Seagal peaked, that looking back at his earlier work the characters had now become interchangeable and his limited wardrobe for black clothes only made it worse.

Yeah even smaller Buicks had the bench front seat

Same here and well said.

Too many people are sheep and just jumping on the bandwagon of making fun of him now. His movies had great choreography. The fight scene at the bar was awesome. On the other hand no one is making fun of Bloodsport and the acting and choreography in that is amateurish. They didn’t even have basic physics down. One scene JCVD kicks a guy and goes the opposite direction of the kick. Never saw a mistake like that in a Segal movie.

Agreed. Check out Joe Rogen's segment about him, he's actually a real martial artist trained in Japan in Aikido. @@strafer8764

Space Ice disagrees.

​@@garthhancock3373Space Ice rules!

Best fight scene ever.

It's like a slap fight...with pool cues. xD

get him sticks

It's been ages since I saw this, why is Seagal on his knees for that fight?

Notice the switches between two sticks and one?

I honestly laughed when they said that the producers were worried about the dog's safety...looking at how Segal treated stuntmen in the past, I don't blame them.

and that's why they call him puppy love!

Guilty pleasures don’t exist. There’s nothing wrong with any kind of pleasure as long as you’re not hurting anybody else. Like what you like and don’t be ashamed about it.

@@Im.David.Robert Thank you! I get a big kick out of this movie! Like when he kicks the life out of the guy!

He was never physically impressive though even in his early movies. Sly, Arnold, JCVD, Lundgren or even Willis and Swayze were just more imposing. I have to say that the first Under Siege is a great movie, but that is despite Seagal, not because of him.

@@lucas82 He is very tall, has a mean face and was fast. Was...

He did in Above The Law... sort of. Also in Glimmer Man.

Lol I've been having fun with photoshop lately.

As M bison lol

@@a.nonymouse Alex Lantz is excellent 👍...

The Italian Seagal was easily the best version.

Ok that's pretty awesome

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It's one of my all time favorite movies. :)

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I think Above The Law and Marked for Death were better

Y'all don't call em subs? In Jersey we do (North). They do call em hoagies in South Jersey too tho.

@@aikidoboynj When I was growing up in the 70s we always called them wedges. But things change. People invent new words all the time. When I moved to Connecticut I found out that they call them grinders.

I'm very glad to hear that :)