Hi everyone,
UK fans have had a really rough time with their heroes films, all of his earlier films were cut here in the UK and his latest ones probably aren't just because they're not as graphically violent. Here's a run-down of the cuts made:
NICO/ABOVE THE LAW (15s) - cuts to Seagal beating a thug in the bar with his fist, a small drugs scene shortly after the bar, and the arm-breaking of Henry Silva at the end.
HARD TO KILL (12s) - cuts to The Master kicking the snooker cue villain in the face and forcing the shotgun into Bill Sadler's mouth in the wardrobe.
MARKED FOR DEATH (22s) - cuts to the arm-break in the jewellery store, the arm-over-the-shoulder break in the voodoo chamber, and both the eye-gouge and the back-break at the end.
OUT FOR JUSTICE (54s) - The Master pushing the pimp through the car window and hurling him through trash cans, the close-up of the meat cleaver in the hand, close-ups of him putting the snooker ball in the cloth in the bar, him shooting a villain on the bed in his apartment and a whole section of the final fight where he snaps FOrsythe's wrist, pushes him through a window and beats him with a rolling pin.
UNDER SIEGE (10s) - cuts to knife slices to the leg and armpit, a villain being pushed into a bandsaw blade, a throat being ripped out and part of Tommy Lee Jones having his eye gouged.
ON DEADLY GROUND (1m10s) - a head being thrown into a juke-box, a kick to the groin, an arm crunch as he flips a guy over, a wrist-break, another groin kick, a villain holding his crotch, another villain having his arm crunched before being thrown through a window, a whole section of the torture scene in which a pipe-cutter is used on a man's leg, a shotgun blast exiting a man's stomach, a hit to the face with a bat, a villain's face before he is shot through the window, several arm crunches and kicks to a long-haired villain, the female villain bloodied before she blows up, villains on fire, two hits to the face of two villains and a pipe exiting a man's head at the end.
UNDER SIEGE 2 (2m01s) - (takes deep breath) a villain pulling a knife from a passenger, several cuts to the eyeball torture in which the weapon is moved closer to their eyes and Dane continues talking about what it will do to them, a cut to a wrist, further shots of the villain being pulled under the train, more details of Seagal making the bomb, several cuts to villains on fire including Penn shooting one of his own men, a villain catching fire downstairs and Seagal kicking him off te train, a villain being pushed head-first into a wall and Seagal breaking both his wrists, the cliff villain's head being slammed into the rocks, Peter Greene's neck being broken, Penn's knife as he pulls it and more of him killing one of his own men, a knife hanging from a villain's neck, Penn threatening Dane with his knife, an arm-break by The Master in the carriage, Penn and Seagal pulling their knives, numerous further cuts to knives at the end, Seagal breaking Penn's neck and Dane's finger severing in the helicopter door.
THE GLIMMER MAN (8s) - The Master beating a thug with a gun in the car and several hits to the villain's face on the desk in the final fight.
EXECUTIVE DECISION (8s) - Seagal pulling his knife, a thug's throat being slit, a knife being pulled out of a neck, a villain being stabbed in the back of a neck and the chief villain rising from a praying position toward the end.
Even the trailer for Marked For Death was cut by a second when released. Why can't the British censors just leave The Master's films alone?
Steve
UK fans have had a really rough time with their heroes films, all of his earlier films were cut here in the UK and his latest ones probably aren't just because they're not as graphically violent. Here's a run-down of the cuts made:
NICO/ABOVE THE LAW (15s) - cuts to Seagal beating a thug in the bar with his fist, a small drugs scene shortly after the bar, and the arm-breaking of Henry Silva at the end.
HARD TO KILL (12s) - cuts to The Master kicking the snooker cue villain in the face and forcing the shotgun into Bill Sadler's mouth in the wardrobe.
MARKED FOR DEATH (22s) - cuts to the arm-break in the jewellery store, the arm-over-the-shoulder break in the voodoo chamber, and both the eye-gouge and the back-break at the end.
OUT FOR JUSTICE (54s) - The Master pushing the pimp through the car window and hurling him through trash cans, the close-up of the meat cleaver in the hand, close-ups of him putting the snooker ball in the cloth in the bar, him shooting a villain on the bed in his apartment and a whole section of the final fight where he snaps FOrsythe's wrist, pushes him through a window and beats him with a rolling pin.
UNDER SIEGE (10s) - cuts to knife slices to the leg and armpit, a villain being pushed into a bandsaw blade, a throat being ripped out and part of Tommy Lee Jones having his eye gouged.
ON DEADLY GROUND (1m10s) - a head being thrown into a juke-box, a kick to the groin, an arm crunch as he flips a guy over, a wrist-break, another groin kick, a villain holding his crotch, another villain having his arm crunched before being thrown through a window, a whole section of the torture scene in which a pipe-cutter is used on a man's leg, a shotgun blast exiting a man's stomach, a hit to the face with a bat, a villain's face before he is shot through the window, several arm crunches and kicks to a long-haired villain, the female villain bloodied before she blows up, villains on fire, two hits to the face of two villains and a pipe exiting a man's head at the end.
UNDER SIEGE 2 (2m01s) - (takes deep breath) a villain pulling a knife from a passenger, several cuts to the eyeball torture in which the weapon is moved closer to their eyes and Dane continues talking about what it will do to them, a cut to a wrist, further shots of the villain being pulled under the train, more details of Seagal making the bomb, several cuts to villains on fire including Penn shooting one of his own men, a villain catching fire downstairs and Seagal kicking him off te train, a villain being pushed head-first into a wall and Seagal breaking both his wrists, the cliff villain's head being slammed into the rocks, Peter Greene's neck being broken, Penn's knife as he pulls it and more of him killing one of his own men, a knife hanging from a villain's neck, Penn threatening Dane with his knife, an arm-break by The Master in the carriage, Penn and Seagal pulling their knives, numerous further cuts to knives at the end, Seagal breaking Penn's neck and Dane's finger severing in the helicopter door.
THE GLIMMER MAN (8s) - The Master beating a thug with a gun in the car and several hits to the villain's face on the desk in the final fight.
EXECUTIVE DECISION (8s) - Seagal pulling his knife, a thug's throat being slit, a knife being pulled out of a neck, a villain being stabbed in the back of a neck and the chief villain rising from a praying position toward the end.
Even the trailer for Marked For Death was cut by a second when released. Why can't the British censors just leave The Master's films alone?
Steve
