ON DEADLY GROUND (15)
D: Steven Seagal
Warner Bros. (Steven Seagal & Julius R.
Nasso)
US 1994
101 mins
Action/Adventure
W: Ed Horowitz & Robin U. Russin
DP: Ric Waite
Ed: Robert Ferreti & Don Brochu
Mus: Basil Poledouris
Steven Seagal (Forrest Taft), Joan Chen (Masu), Michael Caine
(Michael Jennings), John C. McGinley (MacGruder), R. Lee Ermey (Stone), Shari Stattuck (Liles), Billy Bob Thornton (Homer Carlton)
An ecologically-minded action flick starring Steven Seagal
as a former CIA agent turned ambassador for the Eskimos, killing all and sundry in his mission to stop the greed of a big oil corporation.
This "vision quest" adventure is one of them brainless
action films which, even with your brain removed while watching, makes little sense and is simply complete nonsense. The performance from Seagal is notoriously bad, but he can be forgiven
since he isn't exactly a graduate from RADA. The real embarrassment involved in this debacle is Michael Caine, who clearly involved himself for the money (or maybe he just fancied a winter
holiday).
3/10