Out for Justice

Out for Justice

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Out for Justice
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Flynn
Produced by	Arnold Kopelson Steven Seagal
Written by	David Lee Henry
Starring	Steven Seagal William Forsythe Jerry Orbach Jo Champa
Music by	David Michael Frank
Cinematography	Ric Waite
Edited by	Don Brochu Robert A. Ferretti
Production company	Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	April 12, 1991 (1991-04-12) (United States)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$14,000,000
Box office	$39,673,161

Out for Justice is a 1991 American action film directed by John Flynn, and produced by and starring Steven Seagal. The film is about a veteran police detective who vows to kill the crazy, drug-addicted mafioso who murdered his partner. Realistic dialogue, intense action sequences, and the web of relationships of a man with connections on both side of law are portrayed.^{[citation needed]}

 

Contents

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• 1 Plot
• 2 Cast
• 3 Soundtrack
• 4 Production
• 5 Reception
  • 5.1 Box office
• 6 References
• 7 External links

 

Plot[edit]

Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is a NYPD detective from Brooklyn who has strong ties within his neighborhood.

In the opening scene of the movie, Gino and his partner Bobby Lupo are waiting to bust up a multi-million dollar drug deal. However, Gino sees a pimp violently assaulting one of his girls and intervenes. Shortly afterward, the film's main antagonist, Richie Madano (William Forsythe) 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 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 and he tells his captain, Ronnie Donziger (Jerry Orbach) to give him the clearance for a manhunt. Donziger gives him the clearance, and provides him with an Ithaca 37 pump action 12 gauge shotgun, and an unmarked 1988 Chevrolet Caprice tactical unit. Gino visits his mob connection Frankie and his boss Don Vittorio to tell them that he is going to find Richie, 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. As a subplot, Gino is driving when the driver of a station wagon throws a black garbage bag out the window in front of Gino's car. Seeing that the bag is moving, Gino stops and gathers the bag, and is surprised to find a very scared puppy inside of it.

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 know 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 (Julie Strain), and a waitress named Terry Malloy (Shannon Whirry). 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 Bobby. 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 naked. 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 Bobby.

Gino attempts to get Richie out of hiding by arresting his sister Pattie (Gina Gershon) and by talking to his elderly father, a hard-working and honest man who knows his son is worthless. 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 beats him senseless, finally killing 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 the credit for Richie's death.

Shortly after, Gino, his wife, and the puppy are walking along the pier when they encounter the "tough guy" who threw the bag into traffic. Gino accosts him, and the man attacks him in response. Gino kicks him in the groin, causing him to collapse on the ground in agony. Then the puppy urinates on him.

Cast[edit]

• Steven Seagal as Detective Gino Felino
• William Forsythe as Richie Madano
• Anthony DeSando as Vinnie Madano
• Dan Inosanto as Sticks
• Jerry Orbach as Captain Ronnie Donziger
• Jo Champa as Vicky Felino
• Shareen Mitchell as Laurie Lupo
• Ronald Maccone as Don Vittorio
• Sal Richards as Frankie
• Gina Gershon as Pattie Madano
• Jay Acovone as Bobby Arms
• Nick Corello as Joey Dogs
• Kent McCord as Jack
• Robert LaSardo as Bochi
• John Toles-Bey as King
• Joe Spataro as Bobby Lupo
• Julianna Margulies as Rica
• Dominic Chianese as Mr. Madano
• Vera Lockwood as Mrs. Madano
• Dennis Karika as The Trainer
• Ed Deacy as Detective Deacy
• John Leguizamo as Boy in Alley
• Jorge Gil as Chas the chair

Soundtrack[edit]

Out for Justice
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	1991 CD
Genre	Southern Rock, Rap
Label	Varèse Sarabande

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Don't Stand In My Way"	Gregg Allman	4:10
2.	"Shake the Firm"	Cool J.T.	3:28
3.	"Bad Side of the Town"	Sherwood Ball	3:56
4.	"When The Night Comes Down"	Todd Smallwood	2:26
5.	"Puerto Riqueño"	Michael Jiminez	2:36
6.	"Dime Corazon"	Ali Olmo	3:54
7.	"Temptation"	Teresa James	4:02
8.	"Long Way Home"	Louis Price	4:10
9.	"The Bigger They Are (The Harder They Fall)"	Cool J.T.	2:46
10.	one Good Man"	Kimberli Armstrong	3:30
11.	"No Sleep Till Brooklyn"	Beastie Boys	4:09
12.	"Main Title"	David Michael Frank	4:02
13.	one Night in Brooklyn"	David Michael Frank	3:39
14.	"Final Encounter"	David Michael Frank	4:25

Production[edit]

Movie was originally much longer and it included more plot and characters. Steven Seagal cut some of William Forsythe's scenes because he felt that Forsythe was upstaging him. Also, Warner Bros. brought in editor Michael Eliot to re-edit original cut of the movie so that it could be shorter and more profitable on box office. Eliot did the same job on couple other Warner Bros. movies; Wes Craven's sci-fi horror Deadly Friend (1986) and Mark L. Lester's action movie Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991). Some scenes were deleted and some others were cut for pacing, this is why there are two montage scenes with no dialogue in the movie. Re-editing also caused some minor continuity mistakes. Theatrical trailer shows two deleted scenes; Richie shooting inside clothing store from which he took new shirt (in his first few scenes he wears one shirt then all of a sudden he wears different shirt in rest of the movie) and scene where police captain tells Gino that body count is going up. Some TV versions of the movie included two deleted scenes; Richie stealing the new shirt from store because his got blood on it (also seen in trailer), and Richie and his guys breaking into the house where Gino's wife is and trying to find her but they leave when some neighbours show up.

Reception[edit]

The movie received generally negative along with some mixed reviews.^[2] It was originally rated NC-17 for its brutal and graphic violence^{[citation needed]}. Several cuts were made for the film's release overseas. In the United Kingdom in particular, several of the gruesome action scenes were trimmed for the video release, cutting the duration by 54 seconds. It was later released uncut for DVD.

On Rotten Tomatoes, Out for Justice is currently rated at 19% on the Tomatometer, based on 21 reviews,.^[3]

Box office[edit]

The movie debuted at Number 1 at the box office.^[4] This was the third straight Seagal movie to make number 1 at the U.S. box office on its opening weekend. In the United States the film grossed $40 million, falling short of the box office receipts of his last release, Marked for Death.^[5]