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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.
Release : | 1995 |
Rating : | 5.5 |
Studio : | Warner Bros. Pictures, JVC, Regency Enterprises, |
Crew : | Co-Art Director, Production Design, |
Cast : | Steven Seagal Eric Bogosian Katherine Heigl Morris Chestnut Everett McGill |
Genre : | Action Thriller |
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You won't be disappointed!
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
In this action-packed blockbuster, the recently retired Navy Seal: Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) boards a Colorado to California train with his niece (Katherine Heigl) to start a vacation after the death of his brother. A group of mercenaries are also along for the ride, which will take them through 'Dark Territory' so that they can use it as a 'Mobile HQ' to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite. They are led by a former U.S computer hacker and computer genius named Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian) who provides the brains, while his partner Marcus Penn (Everett McGill) provides the brawn and the mercenaries. Ryback violently dispatches plenty of the mercenaries, including the main man Travis Dane who "never thought of that" and gets shot by Ryback through his computer while trying to escape. This restores the Pentagon's control of the satellite, giving them the chance to remotely destroy it and doing so moments before it destroys the Pentagon. All the actors do a great job with their roles and Ryback's one-liners are still great. My favourite Ryback line remains: "Nobody beats me in the Kitchen." Steven Seagal re-wrote most of the scenes he was in and did an excellent job with them.This movie has some great action scenes even though the special effects have not aged well after all this time, but everything else still holds up well.
Although this movie is flawed, I admit, I'm going to give it a 10 instead of a 9 because it's in my top 10 list of all time favorites.This is a film you either love or hate. The funny thing is, Steven Seagal is the flaw. Everything else is perfect. It seems as though he was doing the movie under duress. His acting is lazy he does it all with a quasi-gangster breathy voice for what reason I don't know. It just seems silly.Now with that out of the way, the rest of the cast and story are top notch. This is a "one man against an army" genre movie. A lot of work was put into it and effort was made to get so many details accurate. Each bad guy for instance actually gets a little character development and there are a lot of them. I think the thing to do is just watch this clip to get an idea of the ingenuity in this filmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDI83HvbtCEIf you like that, watch the movie.
In 1992, there came a film which popularised a new action superstar to the world. That film was UNDER SIEGE, and that man was Steven Seagal. Three years later, the inevitable sequel arrived, and it was a flop. In fact, it went straight to video in this country. The law of diminishing returns simply meant that it just wouldn't hold up to the original film. But then I found out something strange. It did. And, in fact, it's better than the original classic, which was pretty darned good as well. Perhaps it's the pacing, the setting, or the creative force behind the film which makes it work, or perhaps it's simply the sight of Seagal beating up bad guys once again. I don't know, but I love this film.The use of a train as a setting is a neat idea, and the scenes are all played very well. Every inch of the train is used for action and stalking sequences, and Seagal even gets off the train at one point, only to board it (by jumping from a speeding car) later on. It's fantastically unrealistic, but it's still hugely enjoyable. Seagal hides in the toilet, in the cold storage, everywhere really, and as it's a double decker train, there are always enough places to hide in.Although there's been an obvious weight gain since UNDER SIEGE, Seagal is still on top form, using a wide variety of weaponry against the many bad guys he kills in this film. He throws knives, shoots different guns, stabs, breaks wrists and necks, burns, throws people from trains (and under trains), punches, kicks, and even practises martial arts on the baddies, so that the death scenes are never boring, just very creative. The claret is on full flow in this film too, with all of the wrist-snapping neck-cracking bone-breaking bloody action that we have come to expect from a Seagal movie. Seagal confessed that he was down while making the film due to a split up with his wife, but don't worry, it doesn't show. In fact he doesn't need to show much expression, as he's simply a quick, agile, intelligent killing machine with literally hundreds of tricks up his sleeve.Eric Bogosian hams it up deliciously as the over the top villain, and he's memorable for it; hardly threatening though, and more like a computer geek. The brawn is supplied in the hefty form of Everett McGill, a guy who uses pepper spray as mouth wash and who cuts an imposing presence on screen. The final showdown between himself and Seagal is superb, probably the best fight ever, and it lasts for a while as well (something of a change in a Seagal film). I loved it. The rest of the cast support the main actors well, with an unwilling accomplice, a young tough teenage girl facing certain death, Brenda Bakke as the glamour interest, two military guys returning from Under Siege and memorable screen villain Kurtwood Smith as a stuffy officer.If you're interested in DIE HARD rip-offs, then this really is one of the best. It has it all, a brilliant explosive climax where Seagal outruns a moving train wreck, gun play, gore, violence, suspense, everything. In fact, it's one of my favourite films of all time, and along with UNDER SIEGE, is one of the very best films in Seagal's filmography. I really can't think of a way to make it better or make my enjoyment of it greater.
As a viewer from the year 2013, this was a bit hard to just watch. It may be entertaining if viewed as a comedy, but it is very difficult to watch it seriously. No, I don't think action movies have to be believable or realistic, but I do think it is the film's job to hide this fact and overshadow it with a great performance in all other areas of the movie.This is why this very movie is terrible. The script is overdosed with a beyond ridiculous plot structure and garbage dialogue. Maybe it was a bit more underscored when it came out in 1995, but 18 years later it is just painful to experience.If you don't really care about the quality of the film you are watching, I guess you could watch it. But, why pick this action flick over any other film of it's category anyways?