That rat looking guy, I don't understand why and how he showed up with the bad guys at the end... he seemed like a low-life bartender, very Moe Sylzlak-esque, but all of a sudden he is hanging with the CIA??? Someone explain!
share"I TOLD YOU YOU'D NEVER BE THE MAN!"
shareMaybe that rat-hole bar/cafe of his got closed and he blamed Nico in some way. So he had to make money, and decided to hang with the guys who were after Nico. Maybe like snitching on Nico's where-abouts etc. in exchange for dough! You know, like, "Your enemies are my friends" sort of thing. And he did seem to have it in for Nico. "I told you you'd never be the man". Well that's one explanation I guess.
shareHe's in the credits as "CIA Bartender," so I guess he's supposed to be an undercover CIA agent, who just happens to work at the same bar where Nico goes looking for his niece. Too bad Nico felt he had to blow him away with a shotgun, thus making a "CIA Bartender" sequel impossible, but I think they should make a prequel about his early adventures.
shareIn a way it does make sense for him to be with the bad guys at the end becasue that dude Alex was hanging around there banging Nico's niece.
shareThingyBlahBlah3---LOL. That's a great idea.
actually, for a prequel you could watch the beginning of Code of Silence with chuck norris. most of the same cops star in it and there's our favorite "CIA Bartender" in a similar role. Oh wait, he dies in that one too. Guess he'll "never be the man".
Honestly, when CIA Bartender shows up with Zagon in the parking lot I think everyone who's watched Above the Law scratches their head and says "What the hell is that little bartender guy doing there!?"
My theory is: it's just a crappily written part of the movie where the writers were like "yeah, let's have that bartender guy try to get even with Nico. Then Nico can kill him too!"
But I love that they actually try to make his presence in the end more "logical" by naming him "CIA Bartender" in the credits. Good god, there should be a website dedicated to this character. Maybe CIA Bartender is the secret mastermind behind the whole movie....
I should have had a CIA Bartender t-shirt for when I used to bartend. I could have cut people off and then told them "You'll never be the man, you'll never be the f-king man, understand?"
We just watched this for the umpteenth time last night and I was wondering the same thing. Why in the hell is the slime ball bartender hanging out with these CIA slime balls? Either way we liked it when he got blew away. I rather Nico beat his ass silly but he's really not worth the effort.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
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Holy crap! There's an uncut Region 1? Please do let us know where you got that one..
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My problem is, I've only seen one of them... either the cut one or the uncut one.. I honestly would have no clue which one is which :( I just assumed I had the Region 1 cut version since you mentioned you got one uncut.
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Oh my lord... the Turnip Truck Guy beating was cut short!??!?!
I think I'm sleepy as hell, as I'm drawing blanks where the guy gets his hand chopped off... oh wait, when those dudes come to him and say "you think you can come to our neighborhood and fack with our people... now our people gonna *beep* witchyou".. in my copy, we only hear the "sword" come down and slice his hand off, and with the priest, my memory could be hazy, but I don't recall my copy showing him getting his throat sliced.
Does your copy show the absurdly fake-looking arm break on Zagon? :)
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The turnip truck is the pimp beating from Out For Justice.. the dude looks at the hooker and says "do I look like I just fell off a turnip truck, b*tch?".
Do let me know what differences you found.. and by the way, it's the "sound" of the arm breaking that really does it in this movie:)
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That's no bartender, it's Liberace
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Myabe the CIA supplies guys with there own personal bartender. I'll have a jack and Coke and a Sandinistan death squad on the rocks
shareYeah thats quality. He has no reason to be there AT ALL and my housemate & I were debating his role.
Its even mentioned in the book Seagology: A Study of the Ass-Kicking movies of Steven Seagal, by the author himself....why is he there!? oh well, guess we'll never know.
What is it with Seagal and his hatred of bartenders?
Oh God. Did you eat all this acid?
That's right! M U S I C!!
Is that the same bartender that says dont do me ugly
sharei would have tipped him.
"Hipness is not a state of mind, it's a fact of life!" - Cannonball Adderley
It fits with the whole "underground conspiracy where everything is connected" trope
The bartender ran the joint where the waiter brought Nico's niece - that explains how the waiter knew about Salvano's score
Salvano was connected with the CIA, as was the bartender, which explains how the waiter could've tipped Nico off about their operations