Under Siege [Blu-ray]
by Andrew Davis
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Actor: Colm Meaney, Erika Eleniak, Gary Busey, Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Andrew Davis
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Producer: Gary W. Goldstein
Producer: J.F. Lawton
Writer: J.F. Lawton
Producer: Jack B. Bernstein
Producer: Joel Chernoff
Producer: Peter Macgregor-Scott
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Under Siege [Blu-ray]
DVD Review: Steven Seagal's action classic now on Blu Ray at a new low price!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Under Seige is now available on Blu ray at a new low price,this is one of Steven Seagal's best films,the PQ,and sound is great,the only extra is a trailer fir the film!!! It's "Die Hard" on a battleship!!! A great Blu Ray for the price!!! A+DVD Review: Guilty Pleasure
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm sorry, but I just LIKE this movie. Not the best-looking Blu-Ray, but respectable looking/sounding. DVD Review: Explosions So Big, They Nearly Block Out Steven
Summary: 3 Stars
It's taken me a while to review "Under Siege", even though it's one of the first Steven Seagal movies I ever saw. I suppose the delay was necessary because I was interested in giving it a fair chance: when I first saw the movie, I was aware that it was Seagal's most successful and most famous picture yet but I didn't really like it too much, but was nonetheless determined to realize why it received the acclaim it did. I think I finally figured it out: it was big simply because it was Seagal's first big movie. That sounds kind of redundant and unexplanatory, I know, but by the standards of his previous "Above the Law", "Hard to Kill", "Marked for Death", and "Out for Justice", this one's huge: battleships, submarines, fighter jets, helicopters, nuclear weapons, and explosions galore had no place his previous films but are commonplace in "Under Siege". I'm not trying to downplay his earlier stuff, of course - most of it is significantly better than his $156 million blockbuster, here. Make no mistake: "Under Siege" is a great action movie by the standards of its time...but for those of us reared on the no-nonsense carnage of Seagal's trademark features, this represents a step down the ladder.
The story: Casey Ryback (Seagal) is a quick-witted cook of the USS Missouri battleship who's won the favor of both the captain and the crew but also the contempt of the unstable Commander Krill (Gary Busey, "Lethal Weapon", "Predator 2"). Shortly before the throwing of a surprise party for the captain, Ryback is locked in a freezer for striking Krill, and is therefore spared immediate detection when the party turns out to be a hijacking by a group of vicious mercenaries organized by Krill and led by ex-black ops agent William Stranix (Tommy Lee Jones, "The Fugitive", "Men in Black"). After escaping from his chilly prison and enlisting the help of a beautiful but na?ve young stripper (Erika Eleniak, "Baywatch"), Ryback must utilize his uncanny talents in weapons and martial arts to stop the terrorist plot of stealing nuclear missiles and launching an attack against the US.
Yes, it's a movie in the mold of "Die Hard", but as far as rip-offs go, this one's pretty good: there's certainly enough action in the form of explosions (as small as microwave bombs and as large as helicopters and submarines going up in flames), gunfights, and the various slicing and dicing of human body parts by the knife-savvy Ryback. I always considered Seagal to be a martial artist at heart, but he seems quite at ease in the role of a human bulldozer: never before had a character of his been quite as invincible as Casey Ryback, whose hand-to-hand lethalness stretches to the ability of being able to tear a man's throat out of his neck with his bare hand. Not only that, but his resourcefulness could give MacGyver a run for his money: cocktail bombs are a given, but in between seeing him defuse a nuclear warhead with only a potful of boiling water and understanding vulgarities delivered in Morse code, you really begin to wonder where the man's limits are.
That's where the film's faults start: Seagal's characters have always had a tendency to be well-rounded and take minimal beatings, but Casey Ryback's level of omnipotence is enough to take the tension out of any situation. By the time the movie is halfway over, you know that nothing and nobody on the ship is going to stop him, even if a mercenary has him dead-to-rights with a submachine gun. While Seagal and director Andrew Davis ("Above the Law", "The Fugitive") have a knack of delivering satisfying comeuppances against their bad guys, (SPOILER!) it's less fulfilling to see the eventual deaths of Krill and Stranix after it's been made clear that they don't stand a chance in hell to begin with...especially since Stranix is a much cooler character than Ryback to begin with.
Indeed, even though it would be another year before Tommy Lee Jones would win his Oscar, his comedic/threatening/disturbing portrayal of the government agent gone insane should have been enough to garner acclaim, but it's definitely enough to make him one of the top villains that Seagal has ever faced. The acting, as a whole, is a step above the general level that most action flicks swim at: in addition to Tommy Lee, Busey's trademark gravelly voice has never sounded better, Eleniak stretches her skills to the limit with more-than-passable results, the underrated Patrick O'Neal ("The Kremlin Letter") is honorable as the doomed captain, and even supporting stars Andy Romano ("Pump Up the Volume"), Nick Mancuso ("Ticket to Heaven"), Colm Meaney ("Deep Space Nine") and the rest do well in their roles to show up the theatrically-challenged Seagal. While no one's ever expected award-winning performances from the aikido master, his overly arrogant demeanor makes him more dislikable than many a villain in this movie, and with the possible exception of the satisfying verbal confrontation between him and Stranix, this may very well be the worst performance of his pre-DTV career.
Still, "Under Siege" has it where it counts, and that's the high-octane brawn that puts it up there with other big-name action vehicles of the time like "Speed", "Passenger 57", and lesser "Die Hard" sequels. While it's mandatory for any fan of Steven's to keep his explosion-prone opus in their collection, consider your audience carefully when deciding whether to use this film to introduce a friend to Seagal. As for me, I'll watch it a couple times in the year, just to keep his other films in perspective.
DVD Review: The best Seagal movie by far
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is from the brief period at Warner Brothers when Steven Seagal had decent budgets and good co-stars. This is an obvious ripoff of Die Hard, with Seagal in the Bruce Willis role, Tommy Lee Jones in the Alan Rickman role, and a battleship substituting for an office building. There is an inherent appeal in these movies as the badly outnumbered hero gradually knocks off the bad guys before finally confronting the head villain. Of course, Seagal can't really act, but that's not actually required here. Ex-Playboy playmate Erika Eleniak contributes a brief -- but formidable -- nude scene. (It's interesting that Erika manages to make it through all the slam bang action without breaking even one of her inch-long red fingernails.) All in all, a great popcorn movie for those who like non-stop action (with, of course, non-stop violence).DVD Review: Awesome movie,But Segal's Best ?....Not Really
Summary: 4 Stars
If you ask any non Seagal fan..Or even some Die Hard Seagal fans, they might tell you that Under Siege is his best movie. and according to Amazon " Seagal can consider himself lucky if he ever makes a better movie than this one" Seagal has never been an academy award wining actor, and I don't think he will ever be; but you have to give him credit for making some bone crushing good flicks (at least his early ones)
Under Siege is thought to be Seagal's best due to its similarity to Die Hard. Even at one point it was given a slogan of "Die Hard on A Battleship" Under siege is one of Seagal's best films, but I as a Segal fan don't think it's #1. I give #1 probably to Out for Justice, Hard To Kill or Marked For Death. The reason why I don't regard this as numero uno is because it feels as if they were actually working up on Die hard a bit. Also Seagal's fights are a bit short and at times in the dark; And not to mention the last fight with Tommy Lee Jones, it's too short and the violence is censored. But other than that the movie is a top notch action extravaganza, the action is great and the story too.
In the movie Seagal plays Casey Rayback...he is a cook for battleship USS Missouri. Rayback has to prepare a meal for a special surprise party for The Captain (Patrick O'Neal) but the surprise is the new arrivals, which seem like musicians and caterers but in fact are invaders that are planning to overtake the ship to steal its arsenal of nuclear Tomahawk cruise missiles. The overtaking went as planned, the people on board are taken as hostage.But...they didn't plan on the cook. Aside from being a cook he is an Ex petty officer/Navy seal who has been given medals many times and is an expert in martial arts and his specialty is counter-terrorism...oh boy..The bad guys chose the wrong ship to overtake. The movie is filled with great lines, and some quirky humor. This is Seagal while he still was the champ. Worth owning, for sure.
MY PERSONAL RATING: 4 OUT OF 5
Description of Under Siege [Blu-ray]
It's not a job. It's an adventure! Steven Seagal comes aboard and comes on strong, combining humor and heroics in a fireball of a movie. The excitement starts when the USS Missouri welcomes aboard musicians and caterers set to provide entertainment during the famed battleship's last voyage. The visitors throw a party, all right. A war party. Led by a rogue CIA operative (JFK's Tommy Lee Jones) and a turncoat officer (Lethal Weapon's Gary Busey), they're really killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew. Except for one man. "I'm just a cook," that man says. But he's a cook with a recipe for action. He's ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative Casey Ryback (Seagal). Relying on his slam-bang martial-arts skills and equipped with enough hardware to single-handedly wage World War III, Ryback turns the Missouri's deck and below deck areas into guerilla combat zones. All hands ready, action fans!Steven Seagal can consider himself lucky if he ever makes a better movie than this one, which was appropriately dubbed "Die Hard on a battleship" when released in 1992. Seagal handles the heroic duties with his usual wooden efficiency, but the movie's greatest assets are a punchy script and the scene-stealing performances of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. The two play leaders of a terrorist group who take over the venerable battleship USS Missouri during its final commissioned voyage. They're crazed psychotics who seize control of the ship's nuclear arsenal, but they don't know that Seagal--as the ship's cook, no less--is a former Navy hero, lurking in the shadows and waiting to spoil their nefarious scheme. Director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) helms the action with skillful style, and as the cheesecake stripper who proves handy with a hand grenade, Playboy Playmate-turned-actress Erika Eleniak gives Seagal another reason to strut his macho stuff. Under Siege is hormonal hokum for gun-happy viewers, but as action movies go, this one's a definite guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon
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