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Simply A Masterpiece

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

"On Deadly Ground" may have had good intentions, judging by the synopsis. The final results are nothing short of disastrous. Steven Seagal convincing himself that he's a director, doesn't exactly help matters. His "direction" is heavy going to say the least and can't maintain a good enough pace. Michael Caine - in yet another woeful film - tries and fails dismally to put on an authentic American accent. His hair dye job only makes it worse! One scene that invites unintentional mirth, is the one in the local bar when Seagal crosses swords with bigot Mike Starr. The reason why this is all a bit ridiculous, is when the two men test each other's hand speed. Seagal was by now piling on the pounds, so his opponent here would have to be on the stout side. Otherwise, a skinnier opponent would only make Seagal look decidedly slow....An absolute farce! This film is about loads of money being wasted on a story which wasn't developed properly. It becomes just another excuse to have good guys vs the bad guys, guns and all.

I just can't understand why this film was given a low score of 4.4 out of 10. This film was excellent and I also loved it. On Deadly Ground is an excellent Martial Arts Thriller about an environmental agent skilled in Martial Arts who has take on a ruthless and Malicious Oil Corporation. On Deadly Ground has some excellent acting by Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley and R. Lee Ermy. Michael Caines acting as the greedy and malicious villain Jennings was excellent and he really was great. The acting by the other actors was also excellent and On Deadly Ground was a tense film that I enjoyed watching. On Deadly Ground had some really tense action and also had some excellent Martial Arts fight scenes in it. This film might have been different to Above The Law and might have taken a long time for the fight scenes to come but the main thing was that they were in the film and they were also awesome.

Fisrt at all I'm totally disagree with overall 4 of 10 qualification. This is a best seller of Steven Seagal. Like it or not. Many people user their personal hateness to comment. Just because. Because he is ugly, because it was autoproduced, blah blah. That's are not valid arguments. If you don't like heavy metal, you can't comment about Rock & Roll. So don't do it. The new spider man movie didn't like me. I think is just another easy to understand teenage movie but I won't comment. There is a brotherhood of kids who feels them self identified and it's ok but if you want to criticize you should use the same rod for all

Steven Seagal had a meteoric rise as a martial arts action star, quickly graduating from straight to video to box office number one movies. His success with Under Siege gave him enough clout to direct and star in On Deadly Ground and have a serious message on the dangers of capitalism and respecting the environment.Michael Caine who has is hair dyed dark for the film hams it up as the villain of the film. He plays big bad oil magnate who wants drill for oil in Alaska and in Eskimo land. Caine has a group of bad assed henchmen who are willing to get their hands dirty for kicks it seems.Seagal is one of them who plays Forrest Taft, a specialist oil rig fireman. However he turns on the corporate suits when he asks Caine, 'how much is enough?' Caine ends up trying to get rid of him unsuccessfully. Thankfully for Taft he is rescued by the Alaskan Eskimos and goes on a spiritual and environmental rebirth where he realises the importance and respect for animals, the land and tribal people.Thankfully he also wants revenge on the oil company and Caine hires some big guns to deal with him which includes R Lee Ermey and Billy Bob Thornton but Seagal is a man with hidden talents as he seems to be ex CIA and an expert on combat as well as putting out fires. I would not be surprised if he could cook as well and Ermey's mercenary soon regrets the threat he made to Taft.Obviously by 1994 Seagal was on a roll. His recent films had bigger budgets, better scripts, better production values and some big stars. However this is an ego trip too much. The directing is nothing much than a vanity exercise. Warner Brothers should had got a more experienced director to re-cut the film as the pacing is poor and for an action film, after a bright start (with some good explosions) it becomes plodding and boring. Somewhere in this mess is a decent action film with some humour, fight scenes, action and political points that someone like Andrew Davis (who made Under Siege) could had directed better.The bad guys are suitably one note which is nasty. Caine just turned up for the pay cheque and have a look around Alaska but then you have that speech at the end, the film which really takes the biscuit.Now I do not mind after going through countless right wing action stars to have one with leftist leanings. But do I want an elongated social statement at the end of an action film on the evils of capitalism, corrupt politicians and green issues? I have no doubt that Seagal is sincere in his beliefs, but while a few barbs here and there would had been sufficient, the rant at the end sunk a poor action film down even further.