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==Reception== ===Box office=== ''Marked for Death'' opened at number one at the U.S. box office with an opening weekend gross of $11,790,047,<ref name=Mojo/> making it Seagal's second straight film to open #1. It remained at #1 for three weekends.<ref name=Mojo/> It earned a little more than $46 million domestically and $58 million worldwide.<ref>{{cite news|title= Seagal's Martial Arts Film Still Has a Punch |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=1990-10-15|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-15-ca-2094-story.html|access-date=2010-11-25|first=Pat H.|last=Broeske}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Steven Seagal Wants His Oscar |work= [[Los Angeles Times]]|date=1990-10-14 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-14-ca-3282-story.html |access-date=2010-11-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Seagal Keeps 'Death' Hold on Box Office|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=1990-10-22|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-22-ca-2441-story.html|access-date=2010-12-28|first=Pat H.|last=Broeske}}</ref> ===Critical response=== [[Rotten Tomatoes]], a [[review aggregator]], reports that 27% of 11 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4/10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marked_for_death/|title=Marked for Death (1990)|publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=2020-11-10}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{cite web |url=https://m.cinemascore.com |title=CinemaScore search |publisher=[[CinemaScore]]}}</ref> Both ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]'' gave it a thumbs up, writing that it was another solid Seagal action film.<ref name=NYTrev>Janet Maslin, [https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE5D61E3CF935A35753C1A966958260 Marked for Death (1990)], ''The New York Times'', October 6, 1990, Accessed January 13, 2011.</ref><ref name=WPrev>Richard Harrington, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/markedfordeathrharrington_a0aaf4.htm "Marked for Death"], ''The Washington Post'', October 1990, Accessed January 13, 2011.</ref> In a less than favorable response from ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', they wrote that the film is partially "undone by murky cinematography".<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Marked for Death|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]]|date= 1994-07-15|url= https://ew.com/article/1994/07/15/marked-death/|access-date= 2010-12-07|archive-date= 2009-04-21|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090421110412/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20208655,00.html|url-status= live}}</ref> The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' was very critical of the film.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-10-26-9003300013-story.html |title='Death' Marked By Stereotypes |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=2019-04-11}}</ref>
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