Elishai One of my all time favorite movies. The best movie of Steven Seagal by far, and there are some gems in his oldest movies! A shame his latest ones are so different in quality. Pamela Basker did a wonderful job in casting. Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey as the villains are superb. The fight scenes are exquisite. The soundtrack of the movie is great. Actor I enjoyed the most in this movie: Steven Seagal. Actor I enjoyed the least in this movie: Erika Eleniak. I try my best to find something bad about the movie but I can't - this is the ultimate action movie, same level for me with Taken and The Bourne Identity. A Must Watch recommendation!

Troy Schulz I don't like Steve Seagal. I honestly don't thing anybody really likes Steve Seagal. Most of his movies are pretty terrible and go direct-to-video. But to every rule there is an exception, and that exception is the 1992 action-thriller, Under Siege (aka Die Hard on a Battleship). Our story follows Casey Ryback (Seagal in one of his better performances) a cook on-board the soon-to-be-retired USS Missouri and ex-Navy SEAL (aren't they all?). Ryback remains a constant pain for the disliked Commander Krill (Gary Busey in full- on Busey mode), who in fact intends to hijack the ship alongside Strannix (Tommy Lee Jones, the best actor in the film) during the Captain's birthday party. Freeing himself from a meat locker (don't ask), Ryback and Miss July 1989 (Erika Eleniak) fight to free the ship from its captors. From the plot description I just gave, this probably sounds like a parody of action movies you would find on The Simpsons. And in many respects, it is. But the rather generic plot is handled well, fast-paced and with enough action to keep audiences satisfied. Director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive, Holes) handles the many shootouts well, with smooth tracking shots through the ship's narrow corridors giving the action a sense of energy while remaining comprehensible. Busey and Jones' banter is a constant source of (mostly intentional) laughs, and Basil Poledouris' work on the score is excellent as always. One of the better Die Hard-knockoffs, I think its worth a rental.

David Holt (rawiri42) I guess the most memorable part of "Under Siege" was wondering whether such a thing could ever actually happen. No, not the SEAL- turned- cook part - the hijacking of a battleship. Like, could a terrorist group of about 30 men really take over a warship on the high seas?Well, the way this movie presented it, it would seem that they could! Bearing in mind that this movie was made long before the events of 9/11 and, had it been made about what happened then, I can imagine that a lot of reviewers would be writing things like, "Man!! THAT could never happen!" and we all now know the answer to that one don't we?So let's assume that it could be possible for a group of lunatic terrorists to take over a battleship and then offload all its strategic weaponry onto an enemy submarine. At least we now have a believable plot which then leaves us with Steven Seagal. Next question: Could a highly-trained Navy SEAL be busted to cook for insubordination? Obviously that would seem so too. Since I don't want to include any spoilers here that aren't already in the IMDb summary, suffice to say that Rybeck (Seagal) is (or was) a very efficient SEAL in his day because he very effectively deals with the gang of hijackers culminating with, firstly, the traitorous third officer Krill (not very well played by Gary Busey) and then the lead hijacker (very well played by Tommy Lee Jones).The reason for having ex-Playboy bunny Erika Eleniac on board as a "surprise" for the captain's birthday party was just sufficient to have her (and her ample bosom) in the movie although her extremely rapid change from bimbo to hard-nosed killer was a bit hard to take. Oh well, I guess we had to have it - after all, it is Hollywood!

view_and_review Under Siege is probably my favorite Steven Segal movie. I loved Hard to Kill, Marked for Death and Out for Justice but those movies were more or less carbon copies of one another. With Under Siege taking place on a naval ship it made the story and the action a lot different.Segal plays Casey Ryback, a navy cook who just so happens to be a bad mofo. He has to put his fighting skills and prowess to the test when the ship is hijacked by William Stranix (Tommy Lee Jones). It was nothing but thrills.This was the first movie I'd ever seen Tommy Lee Jones in and he played a wonderful bad guy. I mean he was a perfect fit for the animated megalomaniac type. The movie was great.