Hard to Kill

Hard to Kill, a 1990 activity blur directed by Bruce Malmuth and starring Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, Frederick Coffin, William Sadler. The blur stars Seagal as Detective Mason Storm, who is attack into a blackout in the aforementioned fire-fight that kills his wife Felicia (Bonnie Burroughs) and son Sonny (Geoffrey Bara)... or so he thinks. He reawakens seven years afterwards to acquisition his son animate (now played by Zachary Rosencranz) and seeks avengement with the coma-ward assistant (LeBrock) and his old accomplice (Coffin).

This blur anchored Seagal's cachet as the "Aikido" activity hero, due to the actual esoteric, anachronistic techniques his appearance employs to affected antagonists. For archetype "knee-walking" while in seiza (正座, actually "correct sitting") is active to cross a accessibility abundance alley afterwards advertisement the arch to gunfire; this has origins in culturally-mandated amenities (specific to pre-Meiji Japan and during some acceptable arts such as the tea commemoration & Ikebana). (Robert Twigger's book Angry White Pyjamas mentions the adventure of a Japanese badge officer, and aikido trainee, application knee-walking in a agnate appearance during a gunfight.)

Plot

Mason Storm (Steven Seagal) is a badge detective who is investigating a mob affair demography abode by a pier. He spies on them with a video camera, and captures on band a atramentous amount cogent the added bodies that they can await on his political support, emphasising this by adage "And you can booty that to the bank!" Storm is spotted, but manages to get away. Driving home, Mason informs aboriginal his accomplice afresh his acquaintance Lt. O'Malley (Frederick Coffin) that he has affirmation of bribery (unaware of addition brace of cops alert in), and will be bringing the band to them soon. He goes into a abundance to get alcohol and a teddy buck to accord to his son. The abundance gets beggared by men, one of them cutting the clerk. Mason manages to stop them; afterwards, he goes home, absorbed on adulatory with his wife Felicia (Bonnie Burroughs). Before he does anything, Mason hides the band in a baby aperture in his kitchen wall. Aback he goes upstairs, though, base policemen, including Jack Axel (Charles Boswell) & Max Quentero (Branscombe Richmond), animate for the baby-kisser breach in and advance to annihilation Mason's wife and shoot him. Mason's adolescent son Sonny, (Zachary Rosencrantz) manages to adumbrate until the crisis passes (at the aforementioned time, Storm's accomplice is attack by a masked apache whilst built-in beside his window). At the hospital, Mason is begin to be alive, but in a coma. Lieutenant O'Malley informs the medics to acquaint bodies that Mason died, to anticipate anyone from advancing aback for him later. Mason is set up by the base policemen as accepting murdered his wife and committed suicide.

Steven Seagal as Mason Storm

Seven years later, Mason wakes up from his coma, accepting spent all this time in the hospital. Andy (Kelly LeBrock), one of the two nurses ecology him makes a buzz call, which is intercepted by one of the base badge admiral who appetite to see Mason dead. They accelerate Jack Axel to the hospital to accomplishment the job and annihilate the nurses whom Mason ability accept talked to. Mason realizes that he's still in danger, but his anatomy accept atrophied to area he can almost use his arms. He manages to get himself to an elevator, and aback Andy sees her colleagues killed, helps Mason escape from the hospital.

Needing time to recuperate, Andy brings Mason to a friend's house, area Mason uses his ability of acupuncture, moxibustion and added brainwork techniques to accompany aback his backbone and alternation himself again. While training, Mason hears a bartering for Senator Vernon Trent (William Sadler) on television, who caps his bartering with the phrase, "And you can booty that to the bank!" Recognizing the voice, Mason now knows who he has to go afterwards to get his animus and alike mocks Trent's byword by adage "I'm gonna booty you to the bank. To the claret bank!". Mason contacts O'Malley, who comes over with some weapons for Mason. O'Malley tells Mason that his son is still animate - O'Malley took Mason's son in and aloft him, sending him to a clandestine academy so that he'd be out of danger. O'Malley afresh leaves. However, Senator Trent's men acquisition the abode area Mason and Andy are, and attack to annihilate them, but Mason manages to get them both out again.

Mason afresh goes aback to his old house. Posing as realtors attractive to see if the abode is one that can be put on the market, Mason break through the adhesive in the kitchen to get the band he hid. Mason afresh goes to accommodated O'Malley in a alternation station, area O'Malley brings Mason's now boyish son. They don't see anniversary other, because as Mason arrives, O'Malley is already asleep accepting been attack (by Max) while accouterment a aberration for Sonny to get away. Aback Mason arrives, he sees his son active abroad from two of the base admiral (recognising one as Max, who helped annihilation his wife). Mason catches up, kills Max and saves his son. Mason gives the band to Andy for safe-keeping, and decides to go afterwards Senator Trent at his home.

At the Senator's mansion, Mason sneaks in and manages to booty the Senator's men bottomward one by one. Mason fights with Axel in the billiard room, catastrophe with him jamming a basin stick into his jugular. Mason assuredly manages to accost Senator Trent, and holds him at gunpoint aback the badge storm the mansion. However, rather than arresting Mason, the badge arrest Senator Trent and booty him away. Mason is afresh reunited with Andy and his son, and airing off as the angel from the video-tape is played, assuming Trent advancing out of the caliginosity briefly, apprehensive who it is that's taping him.