Steven Seagal (“Under Siege”, “Hard To Kill”) returns in another underwhelming action flick. If you’ve seen a Seagal film or pretty much any police action movie then you’ve seen “Marked For Death”.

In this mediocre picture, Seagal stars as anti-drugs agent that goes into early retirement. After his family get hit by a voodoo-worshipping Jamaican gang, he’s back to his old ways of beating bad guys senseless. There are pretty much all the obligatory action movie scenes (car chase, good guy’s house gets attacked etc…) in here with a few bits of voodoo thrown in but it doesn’t do anything for me.

Seagal runs like a middle-aged woman in high heels, repeatedly slaps people in a way that’s more annoying than it is tough and walks around with smug look on his face with an equally arrogant tone to his voice; he’s no Charles Bronson (“Death Wish”) or Jackie Chan (“Rush Hour”), that’s for sure. He reads his lines like he can’t wait to leave the room any faster and he throws punches with an equal amount of enthusiasm. His family get an incredibly small amount of screen-time so it’s hard to care about them when they get attacked. The bad guys are pretty forgettable; they’re just stereotypes of Jamaicans and I’m sorry but the whole voodoo thing comes across as more goofy than it does anything else.

“Marked For Death” has people being shot up and kicked in the face but there are so many movies out there with that sort-of stuff. Seagal films always deliver a laugh or two but that’s because they’re tacky as they never seem to have the effort and consideration that the movies with someone such as Arnold Schwarzenegger (“Predator”) do. While I’m sure there are plenty of worse films out there but I certainly am not going to recommend a movie as stupid and boring as “Marked For Death”.