Thursday, September 13, 2007

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory


"...Only one hero stands in the way."

Dark Territory brings Seagal's most famous character, Casey Ryback, back into action. This time Ryback is rendezvousing with his niece to mourn his brother's death. The two are traveling via train, which coincidentally is also serving as transportation to the most dangerous terrorists on the planet. The terrorists include a computer super-genius and a rogue military specialist trained by, you guessed it, Ryback himself. The bad guys' mission is to use an untraceable weaponized satellite to destroy Washington DC. The computer nerd genius villain happened to have designed the satellite and it's software, and so high-jacking it was easy. Keeping Casey Ryback from foiling their plans... not so easy.

Here are some of the movie's highlights:
At one point Seagal made a home-made firebomb out of coconut oil, rum and ice.
Ryback broke one guys arm, then all of his fingers on both hands, and finally, kicked him in the face.
Seagal set 3 bad guys on fire.
He flipped one dude by the arm and then broke his arm and neck at the same time.
In the middle of a knife fight with the toughest bad guy, Ryback lost his knife and was in a standoff with the other guy. He eaily disarmed him and then had an insanely long combo of punches, karate chops and kicks.
Finally, Seagal killed the last bad guy by shutting a helicopter's door on his hand so that the hanging villain lost all of his fingers and fell to his death.

There were a couple of good one-liners in this one:
At one point, Ryback gets shot in the shoulder with a high-powered rifle and says to his side-kick, "You think this is being shot? This ain't being shot."
In another scene, one of the bad guy's is distracted by a girls cleavage and then killed by Seagal's character and Seagal taunts the dead guy, "Tits to die for, huh?"

Even though this was probably one of Seagal's more highly funded films, it was definitely not one of his finest movies. Still, it had a hand-full of really violent scenes and Seagal whispered every line, as usual. He didn't break a lot of bones though, which is the biggest reason why I am only giving Dark Territory two ponytails.

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory: 2 Ponytails

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