shakercoola But for its insubstantial ending, this drama would have had enough to justify its running time. It doesn't have as many action sequences that audiences will have come to expect from a Steven Seagal formula. The story was adequate and plays to a belief system and cultural interest close to Seagal's heart but these hang heavy at times in the story when tension should have been honed. The cinematography of the Montana landscape is beautiful and it keeps the interest because it has good direction, but it was a below par effor when judged from the story end.

Maziun This movie wasn't released in cinemas . It went straight to video/DVD . Wise move , because the movie SUCKS . Also , it was kinda a prophecy for Seagal , because now he keeps making only straight-to-DVD crap. This is third movie in Seagal's ecologic trilogy ("On deadly ground" and "Fire down below" are the other two).This is more of a thriller , where Seagal plays a doctor (sic!). The movie is based on book , but I've never read the book , so I don't know how faithful it is to the book. Anyway , the plot is filled with terrible stupidity and not too much of action . Seagal's tries to act . "Tries" is the right word. Unless you can count his smile as an acting ability. The movie is quite nicely photographed by the same guy , who worked on "Dancing with the wolves". This is the best thing about this movie.If you like good thriller go somewhere else. If you like action go somewhere else . If you like Seagal he had better movies . I give it 1/10.

Prometheus9263 It seems that all people didn't like Steven Seagal: Just take a look at his nomination list, there are only razzie awards nominations (with one win) for him, but I think he didn't earn anything of it. I saw good movies with Steven Seagal, I saw bad movies with Steven Seagal. And THE PATRIOT (1998) is one of his best movies, nearly as good as UNDER SIEGE (1992) or HARD TO KILL (1990). THE PATRIOT shows his activities to protect nature. Surely, this movie is not a great one, and I must say that there is more violence than I like, and why must Seagal's best friend L. Q. Jones die the death of a victim? The role of Dr. McClaren is one of Seagal's best performances. He has, as always, a very good charisma. And in summary, THE PATRIOT is good entertainment-and with an average rating of only 4 points the most underrated movie of all time.Regards, Hans-Dieter

mads leonard holvik I think this movie is given a bad wrap because it does not have non-stop bone crunching action and because the villains are stereotyped and the plot lines are predictable and ridiculous. Anyways, Seagal is Dr Wesley McClaren, one of the best immunologists in the USA. But he works as more of a nature medicine practitioner in a small mid-western town. His best friend, Frank, is a cowboy style guy played by L Q James. McClaren also has a daughter and a father who is full blooded Indian and lives in an isolate cabin in the mountains. The arch villain here is the neo nazi white trash survivalist, Floyd Chisolm, played by Gailord Sartain. Chisolm is strangely able to get a hand on a super potent biological weapon, and assuming that the anti dote they have will keep them safe, he unleashes this stuff on his own townspeople. Immediately the army is alerted and seal off the place. So Seagal retreats to a super secret laboratory in the mountains (sick!)where he battles to find an anti dote. Not surprisingly the anti dote turns out to be a herb flower that indians has used for centuries. Not much action yet, and not much you will get until Chisolm gets desperate and sends his "soldiers" to kidnap Seagal and his daughter. Supposedly McClarens daughter is immune because she has native blood. Frank is killed in this process, leaving Seagal no choice but to put Chisolm out of his misery. This is done in a pretty interesting scene where Chisolm invites the kidnapped Seagal for a glass of Bordeaux wine. Seagal responds by talking calmly about what a piece of trash Chisolm is before breaking his wine class with his thumb and index finger and forcing the broken glass into the man's skull. Priceless! To end it off on a high note the army does not go house to house delivering anti dote in capsules or syringes, no, they sprinkle the flowers out from helicopters hovering the town. The director is Dean Semler, the man behind so diverse films as Bruce Almighty, Dead Calm, Young Guns and Cocktail. If it was not for Seagal and the director this would be a piece of trash too, but strangely, I liked it.