The glowering brutality that is aikido head-banger Steven Seagal's substitute for a star persona at least gives us a rancid taste of authenticity in Marked for Death, a cookie-cutter action picture. This glum lug seems really to enjoy hurting people; he snaps limbs and shatters noses with visible relish. Pitted against a gang of Jamaican gangsters who invade his (white ethnic) Chicago ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Basil Wallace, Keith David, Tom Wright
Directed By: Dwight H. Little

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Bruce Lee, James Tein, Maria Yi
Directed By: Lo Wei

Manufacturer: Boulevard Entertaiment

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Bruce Lee, Tong Lung, Huong Cheng-Li, Roy Horan, Hoi San Lee
Directed By: Ng See-Yuen

Manufacturer: Ilc Prime

Steven Seagal has always been an awkward action hero. Initially, he had a certain amount of credibility thanks to his nebulous association with secret government agencies and mastery of Aikido, which helped to excuse his bad acting. But as a self-righteous action hero in the vein of Schwarzenegger and Stallone, Seagal fell into unintentional self-parody faster and more dramatically than either of ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach, Jo Champa, Shareen Mitchell
Directed By: John Flynn

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Jackie Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Eva Cobo, Shôko Ikeda, Aldo Sambrell
Directed By: Jackie Chan

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned, Nancy Kwan
Directed By: Rob Cohen

A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Forest Whitaker
Directed By: Newt Arnold

Manufacturer: Kiseki Films
Starring: Jackie Chan, Nora Miao, James Tien, Lin Yin-Ju, Chiang Kao
Directed By: Wei Lo