On Deadly Ground (1994)
Genre: Action / Adventure
Duration: 101 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Steven Seagal
Stars: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine and Joan Chen
IMDb score:
4,6 (27.098)
Releasedate: 18 February 1994
On Deadly Ground plot
"His battle to save the Alaskan wilderness and protect its people can only be won..."
The Aegis Oil Company pollutes the environment and boss Michael Jennings (Caine) doesn't seem to worry about it. When employee Hugh Palmer (Richard Hamilton) withholds a floppy disk containing information that could help him lose his business, Palmer is killed. Forrest Taft (Seagal), a close friend of his, decides to take revenge and make sure the corrupt company disappears.
Actors and actresses
Forrest Taft
Michael Jennings
Masu
MacGruder
Stone
Liles
Homer Carlton
Hugh Palmer
Johnny Redfeather
Big Mike
Reviews & comments
PCTERN
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- 258 messages
- 204 votes
In the early 90s, Seagal made quite fun and entertaining films, such as Nico, Hard to Kill and the two Under Siege films, the umpteenth Die Hard ripp offs that came out well, especially in the first one. After that it was really nothing more, with Exit Wounds (2001) he came back again because producer Joel Silver wanted to try again to get his career out of the doldrums. The Glimmerman (1996) was also quite good, especially because of his opponent and downright amusing supporting roles. After the turn of the century, the assembly line became DVD work.
Seagal especially has to rely on his punches and pure action and stay far away from the long dialogues and pulpits. Otherwise it will be laughable in a negative sense, also in this On Deadly Ground. The Narcissism, Seagal's trademark, really drips from your screen when you watch this. It starts with the opening scene when the 'god' Seagal comes to put out a fire with a cigar in his mouth. Man, man, man...
Although the film itself works well visually and plot-technically with the nice supporting roles of, for example, R. Lee Ermey (the famous drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket), Michael Cane and Joan Chen, the film is quite spoiled by the typical Seagal interludes such as the fatherly sermon after that bar fight, the temporary recovery stay with the Eskimos and to top it all off the 5-minute monologue to close the film, as if you're suddenly watching a Greenpeace promotional film.
You would think that Seagal directed this film himself. He has that exceptionally, luckily he didn't do that too often in his bigger films.
Give it another 2, but especially because the action is well portrayed against a beautiful winter background in Alaska. And thanks to the supporting roles like Lee Ermey, what a nice actor that is.
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Tonypulp
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- 21231 messages
- 4608 votes
Awesome Seagal flick. The last 90's title I've yet to see from him, the period when he was the alpha male. A testosterone bomb with a ponytail on it. In On Deadly Ground our good friend finds himself on thin ice (ha-ha), when Caine, McGinley and Ermey, among others, would rather not see him parading around in his Indian suit, Eskimo suit or cool black leather jacket. While it looks so good on him. What follows is a collision with a horde of wild huskies, a serious bad trip in which he witnesses an Eskimo orgy and wrestles with a bear... and the icing on the ice cream cake is a lengthy sermon about the environment. Seagal kicks enough ass and completely blows the whole gang in the last half hour in traditional 90's style, but it still doesn't feel like an ego project. The ''supporting'' cast is really too much of an outsider for that. McGinley is the ultimate 90's bad guy and R. Lee Ermey throws out the best description of Seagal ever; He's the kind of guy that would drink a gallon of gasoline so he could piss in your campfire! You could drop this guy off at the Arctic Circle wearing a pair of bikini underwear, without his toothbrush, and tomorrow afternoon he's going to show up at your pool side with a million dollar smile and fist full of pesos. was undoubtedly a sequel to this film.
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blackwolves
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- 703 messages
- 685 votes
not bad this film quite some action too bad this film has become reality here and there is still some green but the sky is more gray than blue many animals have been exterminated by us oil is gold but a different color than gold the color is black but despite the color it is a wealth for many. they stop with nuclear energy they close they build windmills for clean energy they want to purify the air yet they do not stop with their oil clean air but what about the sea then? beautiful landscapes but as already said this is just a movie because imagine that someone would exist like this will be more than an explosion. ah this something different Seagal as a protector of nature still one I find in the good movies but yes an actor is like a singer sometimes good and other times less
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