Out for Justice

Plot synopsis:
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who has strong ties within his neighborhood. Gino and his partner Bobby Lupo wait to bust up a multimillion-dollar drug deal. However, Gino sees a pimp violently assaulting one of his girls and intervenes. Shortly afterward, Richie Madano murders Bobby in broad daylight in front of his wife, Laurie, and his two children.
Richie is a crack addict who grew up with Gino and Bobby. He has become psychotic and homicidal due to rage and drug use, and seems not to care about the consequences of his actions. Richie then murders a woman at a traffic stop because she abruptly tells him to move the car. He heads off into Brooklyn alongside his goons, who are horrified by what he does but continue to work alongside him.
Gino knows Richie is not going to leave the neighborhood. Ronnie Donziger, his captain, gives him the clearance for a manhunt and provides him with an shotgun and an unmarked car. Gino visits his mob connection Frankie and his boss Don Vittorio, and he tells them he will not get out of the way of their own plans to take out Richie, whom they view as a loose cannon. While driving, Gino sees a fellow driver discard something moving from his car. Upon investigating, Gino rescues an abandoned German Shepherd puppy.
Gino starts the hunt for Richie at a bar run by Richie's brother Vinnie Madano. Vinnie and his friends all refuse to provide information, so Gino beats up all of them. He still does not find out where Richie is, but his concern about getting an attitude problem has been taken care of. Richie later comes back to the bar and beats up Vinnie for not killing Gino when it was one cop against a bar full of armed men. He also has info leaked to the mob that he is at the bar, then emerges from hiding and ambushes the mob's hitmen in a shoot-out.
After visiting a number of local hangouts and establishments trying to find information, Gino discovers Richie killed Bobby because Bobby was having an affair with two women – Richie's girlfriend, Roxanne Ford, and a waitress named Terry Malloy. When Gino goes to Roxanne's home, he finds she is dead. Gino believes that Richie killed Roxanne before he killed Bobby. Gino goes to Laurie's house and tells the widow what is going on. In Laurie's purse, Gino finds the picture that Richie dropped on Bobby's body after killing him. It turns out that Bobby was a corrupt cop who had wanted a money-making lifestyle like Richie's, and Laurie knew Bobby was corrupt. Laurie had found a picture of Bobby and Roxanne having sex. She had given Richie the picture out of jealousy, never expecting Richie to kill Bobby for sleeping with Roxanne. Laurie took the picture away from where Richie dropped it on Bobby because she wanted to protect her husband's reputation.
Gino attempts to get Richie out of hiding by arresting his sister Pattie and by talking to his estranged, elderly father. Following a tip from his local snitch Picolino, Gino eventually finds Richie in a house in the old neighborhood having a party. Gino kills or wounds all of Richie's men. Gino then finds Richie and fights him hand-to-hand. After beating Richie senseless, Gino finally kills him by stabbing him in the forehead with a corkscrew. The mobsters arrive soon after, also intent on killing Richie. Gino uses the lead mobster's gun to shoot the already-dead Richie several times, then tells him to return to his boss and take credit for Richie's death.
Gino and his wife adopt the puppy as a family pet, naming him Coraggio (Italian for courage or bravery). Whilst out walking, they encounter the same man who abandoned the puppy earlier, and Gino confronts him. When the man attacks him, Gino defends himself, knocking the man down. Gino and his wife laugh as the puppy urinates on the man's head.

Tags: comedy, neo noir, murder, cult, violence, revenge

Review:
If you like Seagal, you will love this film; if you don't, OFJ probably will not convince you.The fight scenes have a nice, bone-crunching kinetic energy to them, the plot has something of an urgent feel to it, and the soundtrack contributes greatly to the atmosphere and mood of the proceedings.
So the script gives the movie way too many scenes where he delivers endless monologues - no, actually they are more like oratories - in a static talking head shot filmed over the shoulder of another actor (or extra).
After this he started going downhill, getting greasier and flabbier with each new release, and each new release was more and more unconvincing and badly made than the last, until finally he seems to have bottomed out with "Exit Wounds" and direct-to-video crap like "Out For A Kill".So if you want to watch a GOOD Seagal film, consider this one.
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.
We do get to know some characters pretty well, but others not so much.Steven Seagal stars as the protagonist Gino Felino, the tough, ass-kicking cop who does things his own violent way but still has a soft side evident.William Forsythe stars as the antagonist Richie Madano, the drug using, dirty, evil, sniveling, careless wise-guy who's violent night-long/citywide rampage has Gino chasing him all over town.There are a lot of great action scenes, and plenty of ass-kicking by Steven Seagal for those who are into pure action.
Luckily for the good citizens of Brooklyn, Gino is on the case and on the mission to find Richie by means of broken bones, severed limbs and agonizing pain.As Steven Seagal movies go (the pre-1997 Golden Years) Out For Justice is definitely one of the strongest.
Nice, but making it work is that action maestro John Flynn is at the helm where he makes great use of the authentic Brooklyn backdrop and implements some cracking in-your-face set-pieces of Seagal harassing, causing a mess (that's property damage) and then effortlessly busting body parts.
Seagal is Gino, a gung-ho cop from Brooklyn who decides to take matters into his own hands when a violent ganster kills his partner, think A Bronx Tale mixed with Hard to Kill and Above the Law for good measure.
This violent cop thriller begins when a Brooklyn police named Gino(Steven Seagal) is alerted when his best friend Bobby has been murdered by Richie(William Forsythe), a childhood ex-friend from old Brooklyn neighborhood.
Enter Gino, a no-nonsense officer, who looks like a criminal, but brings em to justice with a vengeance!!!For Bobby Lupo who just happened to be a good cop, maybe, he was playing with the blind spots of the job.
But contrary to his normal fashion, Seagal's character is rough and violent and doesn't care a bit about the rules.Granted, Seagal has a tendency to play guys who don't care about rules, "go it alone cops" and whatnot, but in this movie he spends a lot of time throwing the first punches in situations where all he has to go on are suspicions.
He plays Gino Felino, a Brooklyn cop whose best friend gets shot to death in the opening minutes of the movie in broad daylight in front of his wife and kids.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave.Richie, by the way, is a brilliantly vicious and heartless performance by William Forsythe, and is arguably the best villain in any Steven Seagal film ever made.
It is tremendously violent (there is a scene involving a bad guy getting shot in the leg near the end of the movie that's one of the most graphic and disturbing images I've ever seen in an action movie) ad yet has character development and an interesting story.
"Justice" was the very last thing on Steven Seagal's, Det. Gino Felino, mind in this movie.
****SPOILERS**** Outrageously violent, even for a Steven Seagal movie, as our "hero" Steven Seagal, Det. Gino Felino, is out looking for a coke-crazed hood Richie Madano, William Forsythe, and his not-too-bright gang who were responsible for murdering his partner Bobby Lupo, Joe Spatago, on a Brooklyn street in front of his wife and little boy.
Like thats what it would take to make him a good guy in the movie.As for the coke-sniffing and crazy Richie he seemed to want to get caught and never made any attempt to get out of the city and just waited for the end to come partying in a hooker's apartment with his drugged out gang.
Given an unmarked police car and a shotgun by his Captain, Gino goes 'out for justice' in Brooklyn  seeking to bring Richie in by any means necessary, even if it means putting him and many of his men in body bags to do itSteven Seagal films have always been the same and will always be the same  the only thing that seems to change is the dating of the film (music, co-stars, setting etc) and the man himself.
In terms of martial arts skill he is very lean and fast, producing action scenes that lack expensive special effects but feature bone crunching moves and solid skill from Seagal (even if the bad guys help him by coming at him one or two at a time even when there's 15 of them!).Of course in terms of plot, character and dialogue this is mostly rubbish, but very few viewers will have come to this film expecting it to be strong in these areas.
The support includes Jerry Orbach, Gina Gershon, Julianna Marguiles (ER), Dominic Chianese (Sopranos) and a very hard to spot early role for John Leguizamo (but don't worry, he gets punched and shot!).Overall this is not a good film but it does have plenty of good action and is proof that, for all his limitations and recent failures, Seagal was once a good martial artist and he shows it here.
I mean he actually tries to act.Instead of squinting and mumbling through his usual self righteous blather he actually kicks ass and takes names verbally.....then physically.He's a cop named Gino in Brooklyn and his partner gets clipped by a guy he knew for years from the neighborhood.
Let me start off by saying that I am currently in the process of watching all the movies Seagal has ever made.So far, in addition to "Out for Justice" I have also viewed the following: Above The Law, Hard To Kill, Marked For Death, Under Siege, Under Siege 2, Executive Decision, The Glimmer Man, Fire Down Below, Exit Wounds, Half Past Dead, & Out For A Kill.Out of all the Seagal movies I have seen however, "Out for Justice" is unquestionably the worst.In fact it hard for me to imagine that he could have made another film even worse than this & still maintained such a prolific career.Thankfully however, this movie is so forgettable that even though I viewed it only a few days ago I can barely remember what I hated the most about it.Later, Tom. Bloodthirsty and profane, it does try to depict New York City's Italian-American community--but 90 percent of them are dead by the end, so what's the point?
Steven Seagal plays Gino Felino, a cop who roams the streets after his cop buddy Bobby Lupo (Joe Spataro) is shot dead in front of his family by Richie Madano (William Forsythe), Gino's childhood friend, who is now a psycho Brooklyn hood who terrorizes the streets.The fact that Felino is still a cop upsets his divorced wife (Jo Champa) and his son (Julius Nasso, Jr.), whom in the opening scene, is promised a game of baseball with his dad.
Out For Justice is about as violent as Marked for Death (1990), but instead of Seagal cracking arms and limbs (and backs, for that matter), the film gives us a strong amount of graphic violence and gore.Seagal blows people away with his shotgun, shoots a guy's leg off, another guy gets a meat cleaver impaled in his leg (and then later he pulls out the blade and chops a guy's hand in two), and he stabs a guy in the head with a corkscrew and shoots him to death.
William Forsythe really plays a good villain!Jerry Orbach was good as well!The violence in the film is is great and that's one of the reasons why I love Seagal.I don't want to spoil if for you but if you are a fan of Seagal then check out Out For Justice!.
Segall's Going To Spill A Lot Of Blood In This One. 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.
Like in 'Above the Law' Seagals character with the (once again clingy Italian) name Gino Felino has friendly ties to the Italian mob and soon he has kicked his way to some information about the whereabouts of his former childhood acquaintance turned drug head lunatic and the climatic showdown can begin.
The fighting scenes will most definitely make you slip a ''whooa!'' or ''ooouch!'' once or twice!I like Steven Seagal for his on screen persona actually being one of the few action heroes of his time without any soft edges, like the macho style of Bronson and Eastwood before him.
Seagal, well, he's Seagal, and despite the efforts to beef up his character by giving him some major speeches, the action fan watching is likely to wish the monologues would end and that the movie would get back to the bloodletting.
Without a doubt, this is a perfect example of a movie where Seagal plays a 100% bad-ass and kick-ass character.Obviously, you want to see Seagal kicking asses, snapping arms and breaking bones.The movie is surprisingly violent, i don't know what version i saw, but the movie looked very violent for an Hollywood action movie made in the 90's, it's like a mix of Dirty Harry and a martial arts movie.The acting is fine, fine enough for enjoy the movie.This is definitely that kind of movie that you don't see today: No CGI, No Shakycam and more reasons.I recommend it for who wants to take a look at Seagal's career..
Out for Justice is no exception.This is a great action film with a decent enough plot.The film is about a cop(Seagal) who'se partner was killed by a drug kingpin.The drug kingpin was the cop's old acquaintance from their childhood.So now, the cop must go to all the drug kingpin's hideouts in search for him.
This is probably one of Seagal's more violent films.There is the usual amount of action, however there is more blood.The performances range from decent to good.
Forsythe plays a good villain.Out For Justice is a great action/thriller and I recommend it to action film fans..
Thankfully a year later he would make his best score for Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991).The bare bones plot, William Forsythe's performance and the action is what really stands out in this Seagal movie.
Anyways, Out For Justice is a fast paced and gritty action movie where a cop from the neighborhood(Seagal) is out for street justice to avenge his partner and best friend who was gunned down in front of his family by crack smoking mob psychopath played by William Forsythe, who gives a good performance, but not among his best.
"Out for Justice"opens with a pretty comical scene involving the man beating the snot out of a pimp, so I was hoping for the rest of the movie to follow suit.But it doesn't, and it really hinges on one's willingness to buy Seagal as a paesan.
If however you're of the mind that a good movie needs a wafer thin plot, some stupid macho posturing, the lead character acting like a jerk for much of the running time and a body count so big it'd make the Jedi weep then Out for Justice will have you happy as a pig in excrement.The storyline is your usual run of the mill Seagal fare as our man with the fists stars as Gino, a tough, bullying Italian-American police officer in New York on the trail of a small time mobster who is running around shooting up people for some reason or another that is never fully explained.
A Brooklyn cop goes out for justice to bring in the murderer of his partner, seems to be that the murderer is an old childhood friend and they will play a game of cops and robbers one last time (As the trailer indicated.) Next to Under Siege this is Seagal's best movie.
I need not say that "Out for Justice" isn't the best of what Steven Seagal is capable of, but it's the fact that he tries to act like something he's not.
As usual, he plays a character who gets mad, and in most instances, it's unwise to get men played by Steven Seagal mad.Directed by John Flynn (who directed Sylvester Stallone in 1989's "Lock Up") and opening up with a quote by the late Brooklyn-born playwright Arthur Miller, "Out for Justice" has Seagal playing Gino Felino, a soft-spoken, street-bred cop who engages on a vicious manhunt after his partner is gunned down.
His captain (the late Jerry Orbach) advises Gino to not get too mad in his quest to avenge his partner's death, but he takes a radio and a shotgun and proceeds to bust heads, knock down doors, intimidate witnesses, and bust more heads - by any means necessary to get justice.However, it's not that simple because the gunman, crack-crazed wannabe-gangster Richie Madano (William Forsythe), who is also a childhood adversary of Gino's and has surrounded himself with three other bloodthirsty "B"-actor henchmen and anyone else willing to help him elude the cops, is also being hunted by the Brooklyn mob family to which he has suddenly become a great embarrassment.I already said it's not wise to get Seagal mad, but he, the film, and David Lee Henry's cliché-ridden screenplay try to make him a reasonable and likable person, if it weren't done so half-assed.
He's even a given a cute little puppy, but it isn't made all that useful in the plot (even to better his character), since it remains inside the car most of the time while he's out getting justice.I'll go out on a limb and still say that even though he is by no means a great actor, I have a lot of respect for Steven Seagal and his relentless mastery of Aikido, a complex martial art of Japanese origin that utilizes joint locks, pins, throws, and the opponent's own weight and strength against him.
Heavy asskicking performed by The Great One. It's no doubt that "Out for Justice" is one of the best movies Steven Seagal has made.
This movie reminds me a lot of Above the Law, we have the same lead role Steven Seagal and then there's a few scenes of martial arts thrown around the place.
If you don't take things seriously and just disengage your brain for 91 minutes and enjoy the brutally violent fight scenes you'll find that this movie will fill in your time.Hard nosed renegade NYPD Detective Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) goes after Richie Madano (William Forsythe), an out of control, drug addicted criminal who brutally murders Gino's friend and partner Bobby Lupo (Joe Spataro) in broad daylight in front of his wife and children.
It's a shame that his career has all but evaporated and with his supersized belly he finds himself appearing in lethargic direct to DVD action movies.William Forsythe has always been an effective villain and here in Out for Justice, he is the perfect fit as the psychotic, drug addled Ritchie who has gone on a warpath through Brooklyn.Alongside the late Jerry Orbach keep an eye out for Gina Gershon (Face/Off), Julianna Margulies (ER), Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos) and John Leguizamo (Carlito's Way) in small roles.Out for Justice is enjoyable for it's fight scenes and Steven Seagal doing what he does best, but don't have high expectations and you'll enjoy it for what it is.7/10..
Proud Italian cop, Gino Felino (Seagal in one of his better acting efforts) is chasing down bad guy, wannabe mobster, chicken s..t piece of puke, Richie Madano, played with such villainry by character actor, William Forsythe, (gees Steve must get sick of being surrounded by good actors).
Richie had his own reasons for gunning down a neighborhood friend/and dirty cop, Bobby Lupo, Gino's partner and best friend, who we only meet at the start, before Seagal throws a black pimp through the windshield of a car.
The storyline is routine, but fast-paced & crispy, while Seagal's action scenes are its true merits.'Out for Justice' Synopsis: Brooklyn cop Gino Felino is about to go outside and play catch with his son Tony when he receives a phone call alerting him that his best friend Bobby Lupo has been shot dead in broad daylight on 18th Avenue in front of his wife Laurie Lupo and his two kids by drug kingpin, Richie Madano.'Out for Justice' is gruesome, rough & completely Brooklyn.
This movie is one of the best I've ever seen, I can't understand why they didn't got an Oscar for the great acting.For Steven Seagal this will never be forgotten!
This is coming from the guy who had a hard time watching UNDER SIEGE and all the rest of Seagal's stupid action flicks..
Out For Justice also has excellent acting by Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach and Jo Champa.
Most of Steven Seagal's movies are about him being a cop trying to catch the bad guy.