BandicootBurn In this action-packed blockbuster, the recently retired Navy Seal: Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) boards a Colorado to California train with his niece (Katherine Heigl) to start a vacation after the death of his brother. A group of mercenaries are also along for the ride, which will take them through 'Dark Territory' so that they can use it as a 'Mobile HQ' to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite. They are led by a former U.S computer hacker and computer genius named Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian) who provides the brains, while his partner Marcus Penn (Everett McGill) provides the brawn and the mercenaries. Ryback violently dispatches plenty of the mercenaries, including the main man Travis Dane who "never thought of that" and gets shot by Ryback through his computer while trying to escape. This restores the Pentagon's control of the satellite, giving them the chance to remotely destroy it and doing so moments before it destroys the Pentagon. All the actors do a great job with their roles and Ryback's one-liners are still great. My favourite Ryback line remains: "Nobody beats me in the Kitchen." Steven Seagal re-wrote most of the scenes he was in and did an excellent job with them.This movie has some great action scenes even though the special effects have not aged well after all this time, but everything else still holds up well.

walterhoward Although this movie is flawed, I admit, I'm going to give it a 10 instead of a 9 because it's in my top 10 list of all time favorites.This is a film you either love or hate. The funny thing is, Steven Seagal is the flaw. Everything else is perfect. It seems as though he was doing the movie under duress. His acting is lazy he does it all with a quasi-gangster breathy voice for what reason I don't know. It just seems silly.Now with that out of the way, the rest of the cast and story are top notch. This is a "one man against an army" genre movie. A lot of work was put into it and effort was made to get so many details accurate. Each bad guy for instance actually gets a little character development and there are a lot of them. I think the thing to do is just watch this clip to get an idea of the ingenuity in this filmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDI83HvbtCEIf you like that, watch the movie.

Leofwine_draca In 1992, there came a film which popularised a new action superstar to the world. That film was UNDER SIEGE, and that man was Steven Seagal. Three years later, the inevitable sequel arrived, and it was a flop. In fact, it went straight to video in this country. The law of diminishing returns simply meant that it just wouldn't hold up to the original film. But then I found out something strange. It did. And, in fact, it's better than the original classic, which was pretty darned good as well. Perhaps it's the pacing, the setting, or the creative force behind the film which makes it work, or perhaps it's simply the sight of Seagal beating up bad guys once again. I don't know, but I love this film.The use of a train as a setting is a neat idea, and the scenes are all played very well. Every inch of the train is used for action and stalking sequences, and Seagal even gets off the train at one point, only to board it (by jumping from a speeding car) later on. It's fantastically unrealistic, but it's still hugely enjoyable. Seagal hides in the toilet, in the cold storage, everywhere really, and as it's a double decker train, there are always enough places to hide in.Although there's been an obvious weight gain since UNDER SIEGE, Seagal is still on top form, using a wide variety of weaponry against the many bad guys he kills in this film. He throws knives, shoots different guns, stabs, breaks wrists and necks, burns, throws people from trains (and under trains), punches, kicks, and even practises martial arts on the baddies, so that the death scenes are never boring, just very creative. The claret is on full flow in this film too, with all of the wrist-snapping neck-cracking bone-breaking bloody action that we have come to expect from a Seagal movie. Seagal confessed that he was down while making the film due to a split up with his wife, but don't worry, it doesn't show. In fact he doesn't need to show much expression, as he's simply a quick, agile, intelligent killing machine with literally hundreds of tricks up his sleeve.Eric Bogosian hams it up deliciously as the over the top villain, and he's memorable for it; hardly threatening though, and more like a computer geek. The brawn is supplied in the hefty form of Everett McGill, a guy who uses pepper spray as mouth wash and who cuts an imposing presence on screen. The final showdown between himself and Seagal is superb, probably the best fight ever, and it lasts for a while as well (something of a change in a Seagal film). I loved it. The rest of the cast support the main actors well, with an unwilling accomplice, a young tough teenage girl facing certain death, Brenda Bakke as the glamour interest, two military guys returning from Under Siege and memorable screen villain Kurtwood Smith as a stuffy officer.If you're interested in DIE HARD rip-offs, then this really is one of the best. It has it all, a brilliant explosive climax where Seagal outruns a moving train wreck, gun play, gore, violence, suspense, everything. In fact, it's one of my favourite films of all time, and along with UNDER SIEGE, is one of the very best films in Seagal's filmography. I really can't think of a way to make it better or make my enjoyment of it greater.

david-sarkies There is not much that I can really say about this movie. There isn't really much of a theme with it, and it really only continues the trend set out in Under Siege I. Steven Segal is a Navy Seal commander who has retired and is now a cook. His brother has recently died and he meets his niece at the railway station to go to Los Angeles for the funeral. The train is the target of hijackers who use the train as a mobile base to control a top secret satellite. They request a billion dollars off of America's enemies to use this satellite to cause an earthquake in Washington DC and eliminate the entire eastern seaboard.The only thing that stands up in this movie is that it is purely an action movie. There are lots of hair raising stunts, bodies thumping down cliff faces, and tonnes of machine-gun fire. There is a nasty woman assassin (for some reason the women assassins seem to be the most deadliest), and lots of mooks that get shot. There is also a knife fight at the end between Segal and the mercenary boss. Unfortunately this knife fight is really bad, and does not equate to the one at the end of Under Siege. The woman also appears very irregularly and this is not as fiercesome as could be expected.One of the things about this movie is how the ultimate weapons are not always that ultimate. The theme in these two movies is how the US's biggest weapons are stolen and used against them. The Missouri in Under Siege was not exactly a new weapon, but the satellite here is. What is strange is out of all of the trains, why this one? Well, when I think about it, I realise that most importantly Steven Segal is on this train. If he wasn't then there wouldn't be a good guy to stop them. Less importantly, the train goes near a dead zone, a place where no radio signals can get out. This is not all that important because when they enter this zone it is only to crash the train into another oncoming train.This movie is okay really for a pointless action movie, and there is action aplenty. In the end though, it does not rise above the level of being simply okay.