nofunca02 Fisrt at all I'm totally disagree with overall 4 of 10 qualification. This is a best seller of Steven Seagal. Like it or not. Many people user their personal hateness to comment. Just because. Because he is ugly, because it was autoproduced, blah blah. That's are not valid arguments. If you don't like heavy metal, you can't comment about Rock & Roll. So don't do it. The new spider man movie didn't like me. I think is just another easy to understand teenage movie but I won't comment. There is a brotherhood of kids who feels them self identified and it's ok but if you want to criticize you should use the same rod for all

bh_tafe3 Steven Segal saves the Alaskan wild from Michael Caine's evil oil rig owner in this preachy enviro-actioner packed with fighting and explosions.Segal stars as Forrest Taft (awesomely stupid name), an oil rig fire fighter who learns of unethical shenanigans in the running of Aegis Oil , an evil global conglomerate who purchased land in Alaska almost twenty years ago, and now has just two weeks to start drilling or they will lose their mining rights on the land. They cut some corners and make an unsafe rig. Taft is informed about the faulty equipment by rig foreman Hugh, and becomes the target of the evil Aegis CEO Michael Jennings (Michael Caine). Jennings gets his henchmen, led by MacGruder (John. C. McGinley), to kill Hugh and set up an explosion to take care of Taft. Taft survives the explosion and ends up being nursed back to health in an Eskimo Village by (Masu) Joan Chen.After Taft and Masu leave, Jennings sends his men to destroy the Eskimo Village. Taft has had enough and he is going to break into the oil refinery and blow this sucker sky high! This movie really aggravated people living in Alaskan communities as it portrayed Alaskan oil rigs in a negative light and depicted Alaskan people to be either racist whites or Eskimos, with nothing in between. Segal actually lived briefly in the area while being trained in oil rig fighting and presumably location filming.There is some nice scenery to watch here along with some good fighting sequences and the big explosion at the end is worth the lengthy set-up. But the environmental stuff is so preachy, and the two main baddies, McGinley and Caine are not fighters, so there is no big show down to enjoy. Segal and Caine bring what they always bring to their movies, and the presence of names like Chen, McGinley and Billy Bob Thornton, adds some gravitas to proceedings, but not enough.If you like Segal films, this has everything you would expect in one, and is well made, but the film indulges in simplistic stereotypes and contains endless preaching about the "evil that lurks in the hearts of men" and oil drilling, including a powerpoint presentation right before the end credits, and for many this will kill it.

SnoopyStyle Michael Jennings (Michael Caine) is the callous CEO of Aegis Oil. They are desperate to finish the latest job or else the drilling rights revert back to the "Eskimos". He cut corners and use defective parts. Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal) is the safety officer who must fight for what's right.Steven Seagal is a weak director. He lacks the vision or the skills. This plays more as a TV movie with an oversized budget. It could still have been watchable but Seagal keeps strutting around like a douchie peacock. This is a terrible vanity project. He wants to be an environmental native superhero. It's all too much.Even Michael Caine is annoyingly 2 dimensional. He sleeks back his hair and act like a super criminal. There isn't much nuance. This is standoff between two giant peacocks as the movie starts with a giant explosion, and the two men standing upright posing while everybody else cowers. It sets the sour tone right from the beginning.

Maziun This movie was made after the success of "Under siege" – Seagal's best movie to date. The producers allowed Seagal to make a movie based on his screenplay and even gave him the directors seat . Seagal is also the main producer of this movie. If there is one good thing about this movie is the big budget. When it comes to Seagal's movies only "Under siege" , "Under siege 2" , " Exit wounds " and "On deadly ground" really feel like a professional movies . Others , even "Nico : Above the law " , did feel like a low budget made-for-TV movies. The money here allowed for many explosions , nice costumes and views , and for casting Michael Caine ("Get Carter") ,Joan Chen ("The Last emperor") , Billy Bob Thornton ("Sling blade") and R. Lee Ermey ("Full metal jacket").The movie tries to send a message about protecting environment and one could appreciate Seagal for that . Still , I doubt that this movie will convince anyone on the subject . I find it incredibly ridiculous that in this movie Seagal fights for environment blowing everything up . I'm pretty sure that blowing oil refinery won't cause any damage to the environment. There is also one incredibly preachy speech at the end of the movie . Funny thing – in the original version of the movie the speech was supposed to be 30 minutes long ! "On deadly ground" also wants to teach us respect towards Eskimos . Once again – not bad idea , but poor execution . The scene in the bar is quite rightfully among the worst movie scenes EVER made . "What is the essence of man " ? . LOL . Hilarious . So deep… And why does Seagal's character is called Forrest Taft ? Because Gino Fellino ("Out for justice" ) wasn't dumb enough name ?One could wonder what Michael Caine is doing here . I guess the paycheck really was big … Anyway, Caine here gives a rather hammy performance and it's definitely not one of the best moments in his career. Joan Chen is actually OK. Thornton and Ermey are forgettable . Seagal is , well , Seagal . One thing that is noticeable here is the birth of Seagal's huge ego . It's one of his first movies when from time to time movie characters tell the viewers how INCREDIBLY AWESOME Seagal's character is . It was supposed to make him cool , but it ends annoying and pathetic.Seagal shows that he isn't able to direct decent action scene and it's a nail to the coffin for the movie.Even some of Seagal's most loyal fans didn't liked this movie . It's not hard to understand why. I give it 1/10.