A fast paced crime thriller loaded with action and violence. It's very entertaining - one sequence in a bar is very well directed and stands out as the best example of Seagal's elan and fighting prowess as a highly skilled martial arts practitioner and he is convincing as a maverick cop growing up in a criminal underworld but who has chosen the right track. His vengeance, howeverm brings him up against a former schoolfriend turned crinimal who loose in Brooklyn and in a killing frenzy.

Steven Seagal was leaner, meaner and had his own hair when he first started out making tough visceral action films. Well he still has his own hair but it comes originally from a shop and his actions films these days are flabby and lazy like him.He plays tough cop Gino an Italian American cop in Brooklyn who grew up with hoods and one of them Ritchie (William Forysthe) is on a crime spree that involved killing Gino's fellow cop in broad daylight. He even starts killing innocent bystanders and his psycho antics even alarms the local Mafia bosses.Gino is a lone wolf, he does not believe in having back up. In fact he thinks some of his fellow cops are more crooked than the mob. He is happy to walk into a bar and beat up hardened criminals to get information for the whereabouts of Ritchie and his gang. He even goes to Ritchie's frightened and law abiding parents and tells them that he will kill him when he finds him.The story is repetitive as Gino goes here and there looking for Ritchie beating anyone who stands in his way in brutal fashion such as the hoodlum pinned to the wall by a cleaver.The broad acting is left to Forsythe who chews up the scenery as Ritchie as he realises the script has little to offer him as an actor apart from terrorising people.

This is Steven Seagal doing bad a$$ Steven Seagal. He's beating up a suspect, throwing him through a windshield. He's a cop dressed like a mobbed up thug. He's stick fighting. He's throwing unarmed bad guy out the window to his death. He's flipping William Forsythe around like a rag doll.It's a 10 for Steven Seagal fans for love his shtick. It's a 0 for people who hate mindless meaningless violence. So I'll split the difference and give it a 5. Don't look for good acting or good writing. It is strictly an one-man show and Steven Seagal's self-love.

Steven Seagal's action movie "Out for Justice" is short on plot and long on bashing heads in and shooting bad guys full of holes. The body count is so high in this movie that you'd need a degree in Calculus to keep up with it. The plot: Seagal is Gino, a cop from the old neighborhood who's not very happy that his partner Bobby has been killed by Richie (a deranged William Forsythe). There are a few complications along the way before Seagal is able to administer his brand of "justice." These so-called complications do nothing to get in the way of what this movie is all about: vicious beatings and murders with plenty of flowing blood. Also in the cast is Gina Gershon and veteran Broadway actor Jerry Orbach. In one scene, Orbach (a fellow cop) tells Seagal that he's "getting too old for this." I think he means this particular movie and not the police work. Luckily for viewers, Gina looks smashingly good as does the rest of the female cast members. She and the girls provide a welcome respite from the chaos and mayhem that are featured endlessly in this movie. For fans of this type of film, Seagal's brand of vengeance will definitely satisfy their thirst. All others interested in things like story-line, characterizations, and any kind of a moral to the proceedings will have to look elsewhere. As for William Forsythe, his final beating takes up nearly five minutes of screen time. "I like pain," he tells Seagal before he gets slammed for the umpteenth time. Unfortunately, the audience has to suffer through it too. For comic relief, a stray dog relieves itself on one of Seagal's victims. That about sums up this movie.