Beyond Justice - DVD

Charlie Sheen, Michael Madsen, Linda Fiorentino. A cop who goes undercover to infiltrate a motorcycle gang finds his allegiance tested when he falls for a beautiful biker. 1994/color/101 min/R/fullscreen.

After his estranged junkie son turned up dead, disgraced ex-city cop Frank Wilson (Johnny Messner) went back to old haunts and old ways in order to flush out those responsible. While Wilson's old partner (DMX) wants to keep the case on the up and up, the killer (Zack Ward) has an ex-mobster (Steven Seagal) for a father-and the gone-legit gangster will also go to any lengths to shield his kid. Riveting revenge actioner also stars Bill Cobbs, Chester Rushing, Patrick Kilpatrick, Saxon Sharbino. 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.

With BEYOND OUTRAGE, action cinema master Takeshi Kitano returns to the hard boiled characters, black comedy and unflinching violence of his yakuza saga, OUTRAGE. This time, a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky power struggle in the yakuza underworld. The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for, as the police force prepares a full-scale crackdown. Kataoka wants start a war between Sanno and the neighboring Hanabishi crime family in the hopes that they destroy each other. His trump card is Otomo (Kitano) - the rumored-dead boss of a defunct family that was destroyed by the Sanno, who has just been released from prison. Otomo wants to retire from a life of crime, but finds himself drawn back in through Kataoka's manipulations as the Sanno and Hanabishi clans teeter on the brink of an all-out war.