Under Siege

Starring:Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak, Colm Meaney, Patrick O'Neal, Andy Romano, Nick Mancuso, Damian Chapa, Troy Evans, David McKnight, Lee Hinton, Glenn Morshower, Leo Alexander, John Rottger, Brad Rea, Michael Welden, Bernie Casey, Rickey Pierre, Raymond Cruz
Director: Andrew Davis
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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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

Customer Reviews:

Under Seige.......2007-04-10

excellent action movie and the hero Steven Seagal is as always outstanding Keeps you on the edge of your seat.

A Tinge of DIE HARD but Definitely Seagal.......2007-02-07

UNDER SIEGE certainly could be a DIE HARD film if you change the lead character but this film works just fine is one of Seagal's best. Steven Seagal's stoic performance works to his advantage against the over-the-top performances of villains Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. Seagal uses everything but the kitchen sink to save the day aboard the Battleship Missouri. This is a good one.

Definitely Seagal's best movie so far.......2007-02-07

Steven Seagal is finally coming to Scotland, Edinburgh specifically, to play with his band Thunderbox. Although he has a few more chins than he used to, my boyfriend is thinking of going to see him in concert, so what better way to celebrate the fact a major star is coming to Edinburgh, than to watch a movie?

I'm normally not that fussed about Mr Seagal. I own one of his movies (Marked For Death), but I've discovered, since watching this, that I have so much more respect for him when he doesn't have that ponytail. Which just looks silly on a guy that big anyway. I knew I was going to be watching this, as it was "reserved" for watching on the brand new, HD DVD player that now resides in my boyfriend's sitting room. It was my first viewing of a HD DVD and overall, I was very impressed.

Shock horror, you do actually get to see Steven SMILE in this film, which made me start to like him even more. Normally, he's all serious. It did look like he was going to start dancing at one point, which would have left me cringing, but thankfully, he didn't. Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones join him in this movie, including some female nudity from Erika Eleniak, who proves she can handle a gun that looks bigger than her. This is a very stereotypical action movie of the nineties, where terrorists take over whatever it is. In this case, it's a very big naval battleship. Tommy Lee Jones looks like he came straight from the sixties to this point in time. There's not much to the story, but Seagal saves the day, leading everybody along in the process to believe that he's nothing but a lowly cook.

The HD is very impressive, looks great on a 50 inch big screen (some guys have cars - my boyfriend has all his TV stuff and DVDs), the picture has been remastered, and is brighter and sharper than you can possibly imagine. There's no extras on this unfortunately, just a trailer, but some other HDs boast of in movie experiences etc. Shame they couldn't have brought back Steven for a "look back on..." or a commentary, I'm sure it would have been worthwhile.

Definitely the best Seagal movie in my eyes. Get it, watch it!

Under Siege.......2007-01-31

This moive is packed with great actions. It is the one of the best Steven Seagal movie. The storyline may be a bit silly but it is great entertainment.

Best Seagal's movie.......2007-01-28

Seagal plays Casey Ryback - a cook (yup, that's right, a cook) who, by the way, is also a trained Navy SEAL trained in unarmed combat, explosives, weapons usage, tactical weapons etc etc etc. Due to some incident in his past he's working as a cook on board a US warship.

Then the bad guys arrive and hijack the ship. A curious plot, but there you go. Naturally they take out all officers ranking higher than the traitor who lets them in but conveniently don't know that Ryback has skills beyond pie-making.

So begins the carnage, as this now somewhat annoyed Navy SEAL decides to take back the ship. With a little help from Miss July 1989 and a few crew members he finds locked in a room somewhere he not only kills the entire army of bad guys but also manages to take out the Korean submarine that wanted to buy the nuclear missiles on board the ship.

If you like a bit of all-action quasi-comedy with disbelief then just go and buy this movie.

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Best Seagal's movie
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'Nobody beats me in the kitchen!"
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Starring: Steven Seagal , Eric Bogosian , Everett McGill , Katherine Heigl , and Morris Chestnut
Director: Geoff Murphy
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The success of Under Siege made a sequel mandatory according to Hollywood's rules of maximum revenue, and as sequels go, this one's not half bad. Steven Seagal returns as former Navy SEAL and skilled chef Casey Ryback, who's trying to spend quality time with his niece on a cross-country train trip. But as luck and action-movie formulas would have it, the train has been hijacked by a demented genius (Eric Bogosian) who is using the train as a moving platform to seize computerized control of a top-secret U.S. satellite that is capable of causing earthquakes from space. Seagal has to stop the train or the villain (whichever comes first), and the action is fast and furious on its way to a high-speed climax. He's not as wacky as Tommy Lee Jones in the first Under Siege, but Bogosian has got a delirious quality that serves the comic-book plot, and action fans get more than their fill of dazzling stunts and special effects. --Jeff Shannon

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Best Seagal's movie.......2007-01-28

Steven Seagal plays Casey Ryback in the sequel to film of 1992. The simple yet slightly unbelievable plot is that some terrorists have hijacked a luxurious train and our using it as a base for their ugly plan.

They have stolen the control codes to a lethal laser weapon satellite system in space that has the capability to wipe out a destination anywhere in the world. If the Americans do not pay up, then the passengers on the train will die and the US Eastern Seaboard will go up in smoke. Little do they know that a certain ex-Navy SEAL is on the train on vacation with his niece and is prepared to fight!

The action scenes are brilliant, right from the beginning. The fight on the side of the cliff, the cocktail bomb scene, and the finale on the helicopter are all brilliant and exciting. There is nothing to the acting, Seagal portays Ryback's tough character as the knowing hero excellently.

R rating is not strong enough.......2007-01-28

I truly enjoyed watching the movie on TV and in the theater, but on the DVD... that's a whole different story. Almost every other word that comes out of "bad guys" mouth is an f... word. Was this really necessary for the plot of the movie? Good thing that I bought this movie used, because after one time watching it, it's going straight in the trash. It's a great action movie with very distasteful dialogs. I wish I knew where I could get PG version of it.

'Nobody beats me in the kitchen!".......2007-01-16

Steven Seagal reprises his role as a one time SEAL team captain, a counter-terrorist expert who had to rely only on his personal skills in order to survive, and protect the hostages... He happens to be on the Grand Continental passenger train traveling from Denver to L.A... Seagal joins the only family he has, a 'cute kid' named Sarah (Katherine Heigl) after her parents died in a plane crash...

Seagal has an electrifying screen presence... Seeing him in action is similar to appreciating modern art...

The train is hijacked by a team of 'ugly men' with guns... Their chief, Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian), is a high-tech mastermind, who fakes his own death in order to gain control of a top-secret nuclear satellite... For this crazy technical genius, technology can be used for beauty or debasement, and 'until you plug it in, you just can't tell.'

Dane's henchman Penn (Everett McGill) is a soldier of fortune freak, whose relationship with his boss resurfaced during Desert Storm...

Morris Chestnut's focus is on humor and breath-taking sequences...

Geoff Murphy's film is incredibly entertaining, combining action, martial arts, and dark sense of humor...

Under Siege 2.......2006-06-15

Saw a part of this movie and it is awesome.Rated R for strong violence and language.Canada:R[Ontario].

about the movie under siege 2.............2005-05-02

A good movie/film to watch. This movie is a good recommendation to those whom prefer action style movie/film. Enjoy.....

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Under Siege (Blu-Ray)
Starring: Leo Alexzander , Gene Barge , Bruce Bozzi , Anthony G. Brown , and Hiram Bullock
Director: Andrew Davis
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ASIN: B000JLPMPI
Release Date: 2006-10-31

Description

It's not a job. It's an adventure! Steven Seagal comes aboard and comes on strong, combining humor and heroics in a fireball of a movie. The excitement starts when the USS Missouri welcomes aboard musicians and caterers set to provide entertainment during the famed battleship's last voyage. The visitors throw a party, all right. A war party. Led by a rogue CIA operative (JFK's Tommy Lee Jones) and a turncoat officer (Lethal Weapon's Gary Busey), they're really killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew. Except for one man. "I'm just a cook," that man says. But he's a cook with a recipe for action. He's ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative Casey Ryback (Seagal). Relying on his slam-bang martial-arts skills and equipped with enough hardware to single-handedly wage World War III, Ryback turns the Missouri's deck and below deck areas into guerilla combat zones. All hands ready, action fans!

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under siege.......2007-05-15

excellent, I like this movie
high tension
best action

clean scenes, when treated.......2007-03-25

I would say 90% of the whole movie was cleaned and sharpened for HD. Other 10% of random scenes exhibited alot of grain and snow. Still a major improvement over the DVD release that I have viewed multiple times. Only wished they cleaned the whole movie. You won't miss the untreated scenes, extremely grainy. Otherwise, still a great movie in my opinion.

Under Siege (Steven Seagal).......2006-12-10

What a fantastic revival of an all time ripper yarn. This movie has been one of my favourites and the Blu-ray version has been remastered and digitalized to an unbelievable standard. The picture is astounding,(although you must have a Hi-def panel to appreciate the difference, and you must use the very best HDMI input cables), the sound superb, (use optic cable) and you will be hard put to find a better presentation of a 20 year old movie.
HDD will be hard put to beat this technology.

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Starring: Leo Alexzander , Gene Barge , Bruce Bozzi , Anthony G. Brown , and Hiram Bullock
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Under Seige.......2007-04-10

excellent action movie and the hero Steven Seagal is as always outstanding Keeps you on the edge of your seat.

A Tinge of DIE HARD but Definitely Seagal.......2007-02-07

Definitely Seagal's best movie so far.......2007-02-07

Under Siege.......2007-01-31

This moive is packed with great actions. It is the one of the best Steven Seagal movie. The storyline may be a bit silly but it is great entertainment.

Best Seagal's movie.......2007-01-28

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Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege ~ Bubba Smith
Bruce Mahler returns to the Academy gang.
More adventures of the Metropolitan Police Academy
HILARIOUS
Hilarious

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Starring: Bubba Smith , David Graf , Michael Winslow , Leslie Easterbrook , and Marion Ramsey
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Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege ~ Bubba Smith.......2006-06-13

Police Academy 6 - City Under Siege~ Bubba Smith is not as good as the first movie. Still it is not any worst then 3, 4 or 5 and I grade it 2 stars. The script could have been written by 100 monkeys at 100 typewriters. The movie is filled as usual with steero typical roles. Some of the jokes like the guy with the sound effects is like old and many others have been like recycled so many times that even the script writers must have known this. Then again it is a police academy movie so to expect a well written script is like asking to much. The acting is terrible and even worst then the previous movies since Guttenberg and Goldwaith are missing and their wit and smarts could like save many situations. The music is some of the worst 80's music I have ever heard and even when this movie was made I must have been hard pressed to identify them. Still you will not get grade A artists coming flocking to a 6th sequell of a movie. If you like Police Academy movies then this will be barely ok, otherwise avoid this pseudo turkey of a movie. Yeah it is not a total bomb, but I can only give it 2 stars.

Bruce Mahler returns to the Academy gang........2005-02-24

Original cast members returning: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie easterbrook, Marion Ramsey.

Also returning is: Lance Kinsey, Matt McCoy, Arthur Batanides.

Harris now works at the Wilson Heights Division. There has been a crime wave going on and Harris needs some help. Surprise! Harris gets a new partner, Cmndt. Lassard.
Your going to like Hooks (Marion Ramsey) in this one. There are three thugs (Gerrit Graham, Brian Seeman, Darwyn Swalve), but who is the mastermind?
Film runs 83 minutes.
The next film in the series: Police Academy 7: Mission To Moscow (1994).

More adventures of the Metropolitan Police Academy.......2004-05-26

Yes,Commandant Eric Lassard(George Gaynes) is still here. He was supposed to retire after the end of the previous sequel due to age limits. Commissioner Henry Hurst(George R. Robertson) announced in the last scene that Eric continue being the MPA's commandant until he personally decides to retire. That brought relief and happiness to Eric's colleagues,except Captain Harris(G.W. Bailey) and Lieutenant Proctor(Lance Kinsey),of course. In the sixth film of this Police Academy series,it opens with Harris and Proctor on a stakeout one Sunday morning in civilian attire. They missed the Wilson Heights gang striking. They didn't know until another cop from another precinct told them. It turns out that the mastermind of the gang is the city mayor(Kenneth Mars). Matt McCoy returns as Eric's nephew Nick,now an MPA member. Douglas Fackler(Bruce Mahler) returns after being written out of the previous two sequels. We even see Nick and Doug meeting,exchanging handshakes. The mayor's hobby is collecting model ships,which he built himself. Harris complimented the mayor's fabulous collection,but he accidentally destroyed one of the ships. One funny scene was where a dye pack exploded after Harris walked out of a bank with it. The dye discharged all over him. That almost happened to Nick,who claims he found dropped stolen money and was gonna give it to Commissioner Hurst. The Wilson Heights gang planted stolen jewelry inside Commandant Lassard's office,thus the commandant being falsely accused of the theft,and him and his team being suspended. Harris and Hurst found the stolen jewelry. The mayor,disguised as Commissioner Hurst,is taken away after the MPA learn that he masterminded the gang's crimes. The mayor had the gang set up a crime wave in an area of property that he planned to devalue and purchase. So Eric and his gang were reinstated and in the last scene,at a ceremony,Lt. Hightower(Bubba Smith) and Harris swap assigned seats and Harris ascends into the friendly skies with helium-filled latex balloons attached to the chair he's sitting in. Nick cuts the ties holding the balloons. We hear Harris exclaiming,"Oh,Proctor,Proctor,PROCTOR!!". It's amazing that there were six Police Academy movies made and released one by one in a six-year period(1984 to 1989). It's like a long-running television series. Say goodbye to McCoy since he would not return for the seventh and most recent film.

HILARIOUS.......2004-03-10

This is the second best in the series of seven movies. It has drop down humor, and great jokes. One of my favorites, Douglas Fackler returns. Another great family film and is great for a party. The crew is all here, Larvell Jones, Moses Hightower, Hooks, Doug Fackler, Eugine Tackleberry, Debbie Calahan Nick Lassard, Thaddeus Harris, Procter, and Eric Lassard. And finally, after a long wait, the Police Academy series is coming to dvd. You can buy them seprate, or in a box set that I recommend you buying. The series will be realesed on April 6. This an ok dvd when it comes to features, it has a trailer and a making of reel. Here are some good parts in this movie, when Jones does Terminator, when Fackler knockes a lit cigar into the fireworks box, when hightower raps and when Tackleberry's granade gets shot up into the air and lands on Harris's car. So, mark your calender for April 6 because Police Academy is coming to dvd.
Actors:
Michael Winslow, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Bruce Mahler, Lance Kinsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey, G.W. Bailey, Matt McCoy, George Gaynes, George R. Robertson, Gerrit Graham and Kennith Mars. So get ready to laugh with the worlds funniest police force, on dvd.

Hilarious.......2004-02-26

This movie made me howl with laughter. One of my favorites, Fackler returns. Buy the pack when it comes out in april on dvd.

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The Skeleton coast of Southwestern Africa, commonly known as the coast of fury, is the dramatic backdrop to a story of life and death struggles where only the strongest can survive. Lucy and Louie are vulnerable penguin chicks born in a harsh environment where dangers await them at every turn. From rogue sea lions that lurk offshore to snatch their unsuspecting prey to the watchful gulls that wait for their chance to raid an unprotected nest, Lucy and Louie must persevere in the face of great obstacles. Watch their dramatic story unfold in this illuminating look at the daily lives of these African penguins and whether or not they will survive against impossible odds.

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Love it Love it Love it!.......2006-02-21

Lucy and friends are the core of this story that really portrays the life and struggles of these Blackfoot Penguins, a breed that is a far cry from those featured in March of the Penguins.

"Under Siege" is the perfect film to watch following March Of. It serves to round-you-out. Chcek it out...

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