SummaryLeft for dead with his wife killed in their house, L.A. Detective Mason Storm will have to make a quick recovery, expose those behind the murder and take revenge.
Directed By:Bruce Malmuth
Written By:Steven McKay
Hard to Kill
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Mixed or Average
41
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Generally Favorable
6.2
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Mr. Seagal is effective for both his novelty value and his ability to be both literally and figuratively disarming. And the film itself is a lively one for its genre, ambitious enough to do more than simply string fight scenes together.
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Director Bruce Malmuth keeps the pace taut, the shots tight.
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As it is, Hard to Kill has just enough going for it between the explosions and bone-crunching fight scenes to qualify as two hours of solid, high-decibel action entertainment.
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While Seagal is spraying bullets, breaking bones and throwing interchangeable bad guys through windows, this has a certain mindless appeal. But Malmuth's flaccid direction lacks the vicious muscularity and authentic edge of Seagal's previous feature.
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One for fans only.
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Steven Seagal should go into a seven-year coma more often. It suits his acting ability. A coma is what happens to him in Hard To Kill, his latest hard-to-swallow and dull-to-sit-through formula vigilante movie. [10 Feb 1990, p.C7]
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At this point, revenge thrillers have become so standardized that these films are really all the same film — a Mixmaster blend of Death Wish, Dirty Harry, Enter the Dragon, and Rambo. A star with a personality would only gum up the works.
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6.2
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Aug 6, 2025
4
I get that Seagal in action is like a unaware parody cause he never gets hit and he never sweats. But beyond whatever unintentional comedy he brings to the table, there is no juice to the story or any performances in this.
Mar 18, 2020
1
Hard to Kill is a film I grew up with as a kid. A 1990 action flick starring Steven Seagal. Steven's character in the film gets shot a dozen times at the beginning of the film then goes into a coma, wakes up years later and takes down the bad guys. This film is ridiculously over the top and unrealistic. The action scenes are very silly and it's very violent. Hard to Kill is a good example of why Steven Seagal has won so many worst actor awards. Hard to Kill is entertaining but Steven Seagal's acting is wooden and the action scenes are too violent and stupid and completely unbelievable and the villains are laughable. Crap film so avoid this rubbish!
