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Summary: Excellent Movie!!!
Review: Steven Seagal on his best. He does an excellent job playing Casey Ryback, a former Navy Seal. I watched all his movies and I loved them. I'd recommend that you buy this movie. It's worth it.
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Summary: great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: this a good movie i liked it.i really dont know what to say except it is a really good movie.!!!
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Summary: Seagal Can Cook!
Review: Casey Ryback is a former Navy Seal who is under suspension cooking for a major. The major likes his cooking, but the crew doesn't appreciate him. Especially Gary Busey, a man who doesn't know what good food tastes like. Tommy Lee Jones and his music band want to surprise the major for his birthday party and they do! He gets shot by the bad man and the band takes the ship hostage. They use tomahawks and threaten the country. But, Seagal doesn't stand around eating pies, he grabs some of his knives and finds creative ways to get rid of his enemies. He takes out the terrorists one-by-one and fights Tommy Lee Jones at the end. What a knife fight! Clingy Clangy! Of course Seagal saves the day and made the Navy look good with its adventurous genius.
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Summary: Seagal's best flick
Review: THis is an outstanding flick. Not so much because of Seagal's action but because of TOmmy Lee Jones and Gary Busey roles as villians. THey steal the show and make it worth watching. The need for a good villian to counter the hero is something often missed in Hollywood but this time, they got it right.
Seagal is a cook, former SEAL, on the battleship Missouri on its final cruise (which is a damn shame). Terrorists, not really (more like mercenaries), take over the ship and its skeleton crew. Only Seagal can save the day. Plenty of action and great dialogue from Jones and Busey.
I don't know what Erika is doing there. She adds nothing to the flick. Sometimes, you just don't need a female role. Overall, its a good flick. Probably his best. Much better than the sequel.
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Summary: Think Die Hard but MUCH worse...
Review: The comparisions are apparent between Under Siege and Die Hard. Both involve lone-wolf operatives in a terrorist seized structure. But the comparisons should stop there. Under Siege was the WORST Seagal film I have seen to date and there are a number of reasons. First, there is little to none, hand to hand combat which Seagal build his audience on, there is plenty of action and bloodshed but it's not your typical Seagal fare. Second, the villians played by two of America's most accomplished actors Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey are just too over the top and ridiculous. They are also killed off way too quickly and easily, I mean I know Seagal kicks [rear] but please at least make it interesting! The girl Elena Eleniak is real just eye candy(not that I'm complaining) but at least she gets naked for a second or two. Finally, the movie is just way too long and could have wrapped up a half hour earlier easily. Overall, for traditional martial arts fans SKIP THIS, if you are a Seagal fanatic I guess you'll see it anyway.
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Summary: Taking charge
Review: Steven Seagal shows off his skills in this film. He plays the head chef of the battleship the U.S.S Missouri. The ship gets taken over by Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. (...)Steven is a very talented actor and it shows in his films.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This movie is good. It's DIE HARD on a battle ship. The movie is about Seagal who is a chef and is forced into action when the battle ship he's on is taken over by Tommy Lee Jones. Great movie.
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Summary: Not enough of Seagal's great bone-breaking, but fun anyway
Review: Well, this is not Seagal's best movie, that much is certain. Tommy Lee Jones, though, does a very good job with the mediocre character he was given. In the midst of the poor acting that is typical of a Seagal movie, he really shines forth (and let's face it, you don't watch a Seagal movie to learn about the art of film or the art of acting - you watch it to watch bad guys get kicked all over the place by a man with perfect posture and no need to sneer or show emotion). Gary Bussey, who isn't much of an actor, really shows us just how much "not much of an actor" he is, though his scene dressed up as a female stripper is brilliantly done - he looks like he's having a great time, and does it well. And what can I say about Seagal? Let me say, I love the guy - in terms of movies which are about beating people up, Seagal is far superior to Stallone or van Damme or any of those other guys. Seagal has panache, a great style, which the other beat 'em up guys simply don't have. He has a wonderful style of beating guys up, and/or shooting them dead. He's crap as an actor - wooden, stiff, uncomfortable - but yet he always looks like he's enjoying himself anyway, and that makes the trip through his movies less painful (for the watcher). No one breaks bones as well as Seagal, and no one is as much of a butt-kicker as him. "Under Siege", though it has a pretty good premise, just doesn't deliver the kind of bone-breaking butt-kicking attitude and action that his other movies offer. Some of the fight scenes are good, but many times, the scenes are rather contrived (I mean, contrived even beyond the usual action film contrivance), and I felt as though we never really saw him in full action, and that the script had a lot of missed opportunities, and took advantage of a lot of opportunities it should not have taken. The DVD version of the movie offers nothing special, beyond a trailer, and the usual subtitles and French language audio. It would have been quite cool to have a Seagal running commentary with the film, since there certainly must have been some fairly difficult camera work. Seagal's French actor voice-over guy is not very good, and neither is Busey's. If you must have all of Seagal's movies, then get this one, but you are much better off with any of his other ones first.
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Summary: Seagal at Sea Seems Perfect
Review: Tommy Lee Jones is a revolutionary who wants to blow up Hawaii and Gary Busey is the assistant who betrayed the Navy. All Seagal is is a cook. But what a cook he is. HE blows up kitchens, rigs microwaves, shoots with two small machine guns and of course, uses his aikido skills to render an entire ship of bad guys impotent. Seagal fans say this was his best movie; I say that "Above the Law" was. This movie was perhaps the most expensive and it has been dubbed "Die Hard" on a Battleship. Maybe so. But Seagal is the one people come to see and he delivers, using every guerilla warfare tactic in his arsenal to keep the viewer riveted to the screen. A must see flick for all Seagal fans.
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Summary: Seagal is no DeNeiro... but this movie don't require it
Review: Steven Seagal is a outstanding martial artist. However his acting is only fit for action movies. He makes a good hero, and gives Judo plenty of press on his movies. Under Siege is one of his better of these movies. The famed USS Missouri is hijacked(30 armed terrorists capture 1000 sailors and marines). Stuck on the ship is a former Navy Seal(played by Seagal) who has been relegated to the role of a lowly cook on board the ship. As can be expected, Seagal uses hands, feet, guns and bombs alike to wipe out the intruders and save the day. Seagal's role in the movie was typical, but not dissapointing. However the day is stolen by the role of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Bussey. The two play their villain roles with great style and dark wit. Jones plays the role of a renegade CIA operative while Bussey plays that of a turncoat(and very psychotic) Naval officer. The two play an animated, often hilarious counter to the stoic Seagal. Im no big fan of action movies, but the action is typical of most actions. The body count is pretty high, and in the end the good guys win. But to me the best part of the movie was the role played by the villains. They are the only thing that makes this movie stand out to me and worth watching many times. Well, them and Erika Eleniak.
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