Product: Hard to Kill [VHS] (1990)
Rating: 4.0
Come and cut my heart out
Mason Storm (Seagal) is a dangerous LA homicide cop. So bad, in fact, an early movie exchange cements his lethality. Storm tauntingly drops to his knees in a grocery store, whispering, "Come and cut my heart out, come and cut my heart out!" to a knife-wielding criminal. It's funny because the criminal has clearly never even used a steak knife, much less attack another human being...who happens to be a black belt in aikido. That'll cost you one fully functional ankle and fibula, Mr. Unaware Criminal.Anyway, Storm is investigating police and political corruption. One night he's spying on a corrupt deal where he gets audio and video evidence of a political assassination plan. Unfortunately, he can't keep his trap shut and blabs to a friend as corrupt policemen listen in.Once the bad guys are aware of Storm's evidence, they send a hit-squad to his house. Completely unaware, Storm and his wife get gunned down in bed. Luckily, Storm's young son escapes through the window, and, Storm does not die. He's severely injured, but he's just left for dead in a coma.Fast forward seven years...Storm wakes up from his coma where a hot nurse (Kelly Lebrock) is attending to him. During a pointlessly unreal scene, Lebrock lifts the sheet to look at Storm's dormant package, and openly pines for him to awake from the coma. A guy waking from a coma to a beautiful nurse who wants to have sex with him? What is this, a porn flick?In a matter of no time, Storm has regained his past superhuman dexterity and strength via some light work outs and self-administered smoking acupuncture needles...because this clearly takes care of SEVEN year's worth of muscle atrophy. And, sure enough, he and Lebrock start to fall for one another. From vegetable to fully healthy man forgetful of his dead wife, it's borderline comical how quickly he begins romance anew with his hot, private nurse.During this brief healing period, Storm hears a campaign ad on tv from the corrupt Senator who was involved in his assassination attempt, and this is where the classic Seagal line is uttered, "I'm gonna take you to the bank Senator. To the blood bank!"From there it's a confrontation with the crooked cops and politicians, where an ample amount of appendages are broken and dislocated, and Mason Storm triumphantly delivers pain before walking off during the credit roll with his new woman, his long lost son, and a plethora of bleeding bad guys in his wake.Classic Seagal, great movie.