a5c7b9f00b Nicolo &quot;Nico&quot; Toscani is the son of Sicilian immigrants, and Nico studied martial arts in Japan. His talents got the attention of CIA, which recruited him and sent him to help in some covert operations on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border in 1973. There, he became disgusted with Zagon, one of his superiors who used the Vietnam waran opportunity to get into the money making business of smuggling drugs. Nico left the CIA, and Nico now worksa Chicago detective and he has a wife named Sara. Nico discovers a major drug deal that involves Salvadorian drug dealer Salvano. Nico and his partner Delores &quot;Jax&quot; Jackson arrest Salvano, but Salvano is released at the request of Federal officials. Not listening to the orders to back off, Nico discovers that Salvano is connected to Zagon, who wants to fund an invasion of Nicaragua. When Senator Harrison puts the heat on Zagon and his group to reveal their undercover operations, Harrison becomes Zagon&#39;s next target. Sara&#39;s life is put in danger when Nico tries to protect Harrison from Zagon, who will stop at nothing to keep Nico out of the way. Nico Toscani is a martial arts expert who was recruited by the CIA when he was in Japan, he would be sent to Vietnam. While there he witness the sadistic treatment of prisoners by Zagon, an interrogator, when he clashes with him, Nelson Fox, his friend tells him to get away. Nico goes home to Chicago and becomes a cop. 15 years later, when he busts a drug dealer, he tells Nico of a major deal going down, when he busts them, he discovers a cache of plastic explosives. And before he knows it everyone he arrested is released and when Nico tries to find out what&#39;s going on, a brick wall thrown in front of him. But Nico isn&#39;t about to let that stop him. And before long Fox calls Nico to warn him to back off and it&#39;s not long after that he is arrested and suspended from the force. And when a bomb is set at his church, which kills the parish priest, Nico wages an all-out war on whoever&#39;s doing this. This early on in his career, Seagal has not mastered emotion or facial expressions beyond &#39;serene&#39;, &#39;angry&#39; and &#39;concentrating&#39;. Luckily, the film attempts to bypass the leading role&#39;s lack of acting talent by placingmany humanoids in his way for him to punch, kick, throw and shoot. <br/><br/>With a script that is so far into parody it makes Black Dynamite look like a subtle treatise on inter-race relations, it is surprising that the film started up a career considering action films by 1988 had produced some stone cold action classics (Die Hard, Predator). The inclusion of FBI bigwigs, Vietnam buddies, mafia connections and terrible, terrible clothes means that this film is frankly laughable at several opportunities and only means to be funny less than half of the time. Sharon Stone starsSeagal&#39;s wife and is easily the best acting talent in the film, no contest. Add to this ol&#39; Foxy Brown herself Pam Grier in an underwritten role (she&#39;s an action star in her own right) and you have a reasonably enjoyable film.<br/><br/>This film&#39;s attempt to introduce Steven Seagala new martial arts star works fairly well, it gives descriptions of the character&#39;s martial arts prowess which oddly mirror Seagal&#39;s own. It is strange then that there is remarkably little martial arts in the film, there&#39;s a lot of shooting and foot chases and car chases but considering I was expecting a &#39;martial arts&#39; film, I was hoping Seagal would have had more akido to do.<br/><br/>All in all, not a good film.<br/><br/>Not a good film at all. It is interesting (and a little odd) that Seagal became the action star some of us know and love today off the back of this vehicle. Seagal really started with a burst, compared to other action heroes of those days he really had a different style. To me, only Jeff Speakman had a stunning style like that in his film ¨The Perfect Weapon¨ (if you leave the Chinese films out of the equation). Seagal&#39;s style is fast, fluent, and without compromise. You can see that he is learned in Aikido and Jujutsu. He&#39;s a joy to watch. The story, however, is a much used formula in the action movie business. In this film Seagal plays the narcotics police officer Nicola Toscani, who had a martial arts training in Japan, gets recruited into the CIA, fights in Cambodia or Vietnam (I&#39;m not sure), gets involved in CIA drugs business and therefore, quits the CIA and joins the police force in New York. Here he gets into a lot of trouble because of his unorthodox police-work. Then he gets into even more trouble when he gets into CIA territory with one of his investigations. The film is not for mainstream movie-buffs, because the storyline is simple. You don&#39;t have to think a lot, just follow Toscani&#39;s experiences along his lifea police officer. Seagal&#39;s acting hasn&#39;t changed along the years that we have seen him in all the movies that he has made. But that isn&#39;t a thing to complain about, we have a lot of actors who do act good, but they aren&#39;tgood in martial artsSeagal. For these reasons, I give this movie a 6 out of 10, butfor watching it, I have watched it over ten times.
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