Amazon.com video review:
Steven Seagal can consider himself lucky if he ever makes a
better movie than this one, which was appropriately dubbed
"Die Hard on a battleship" when released in
1992. Seagal handles the heroic duties with his usual wooden
efficiency, but the movie's greatest assets are a punchy script and
the scene-stealing performances of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. The
two play leaders of a terrorist group who take over the venerable
battleship USS Missouri during its final commissioned
voyage. They're crazed psychotics who seize control of the ship's
nuclear arsenal, but they don't know that Seagal--as the ship's cook,
no less--is a former Navy hero, lurking in the shadows and waiting to
spoil their nefarious scheme. Director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive)
helms the action with skillful style, and as the cheesecake stripper
who proves handy with a hand grenade, Playboy
Playmate-turned-actress Erika Eleniak gives Seagal another reason to
strut his macho stuff. Under Siege is hormonal hokum for
gun-happy viewers, but as action movies go, this one's a definite
guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com video review:
Steven Seagal can consider himself lucky if he ever makes a
better movie than this one, which was appropriately dubbed
"Die Hard on a battleship" when released in
1992. Seagal handles the heroic duties with his usual wooden
efficiency, but the movie's greatest assets are a punchy script and
the scene-stealing performances of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. The
two play leaders of a terrorist group who take over the venerable
battleship USS Missouri during its final commissioned
voyage. They're crazed psychotics who seize control of the ship's
nuclear arsenal, but they don't know that Seagal--as the ship's cook,
no less--is a former Navy hero, lurking in the shadows and waiting to
spoil their nefarious scheme. Director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive)
helms the action with skillful style, and as the cheesecake stripper
who proves handy with a hand grenade, Playboy
Playmate-turned-actress Erika Eleniak gives Seagal another reason to
strut his macho stuff. Under Siege is hormonal hokum for
gun-happy viewers, but as action movies go, this one's a definite
guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon
