Before Steven Seagal decided that he had to save the planet from environmental destruction, he used to make great, mindless action thrillers. Here, in a good example, Seagal plays a former Drug Enforcement Agency operative who gets involved in a war between local drug dealers and Jamaican Yardies when he "retires" to his home town of Chicago. Basil Wallace is wildly over the top as the bizarrely named Yardie leader Screwface, and female leads Joanna Pacula and Elizabeth Gracen are given little to do. Needless to say, the action sequences are superbly choreographed and it's directed with unflamboyant efficiency by Dwight H Little.

Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.