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Year
1995
Runtime
100 min.
Director
Geoff Murphy
Genres
Action, Thriller
Rating *
5.4
Votes *
31,526
Checks
2,596
Favs
26
Dislikes
97
Favs/checks
1.0% (1:100)
Favs/dislikes
1:4
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  1. piet's avatar

    piet

    quote:
    Assumption is the mother of all fuckups
    12 years 2 months ago
  2. St. Gloede's avatar

    St. Gloede

    One of the most unintentionally hilarious endings of all time. :D 9 years 8 months ago
  3. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    Seagal's black ops cook is back in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, in which very similar things happen to him once more (this is just as Die Hard as Die Hard). Homegrown terrorists attempt to steal weapons from the U.S. government from a claustrophobic vehicle (this time a train, who doesn't love a good train movie?). Goes a bit far by including the same CIA douche and friendly Admiral as the first movie, they seem shoehorned in. Instead of Miss July, 17-year-old Katherine Heigl is his niece, but though she's trained in martial arts, she soon becomes more of a damsel in distress (sadly), while a plucky porter plays the actual sidekick who, like Miss July, starts as a complete idiot, and through osmosis eventually acts like a trained SEAL. This one is much less grounded than the first one (space lasers and all) and its villains aren't as good (though Eric Bogosian is still a lot of fun), and purely as an action movie, it's as entertaining as the first one. If I'd give it a lower score, it's for a technical flaw: the editing. There's one scene in the first Under Siege that uses video slow-motion, which is horrid, and this one pulls that trick OFTEN, as if it thinks it's a legitimate part of the franchise's visual vocabulary. No, ugh, stop it. There are also several action moments where I was struggling to understand what was happening, while others needed to be cut more finely, but instead fall a little limp from split second padding. But as a brain-to-off action spectacular? Perfectly fine. 3 years 3 months ago
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