This is from the genre 'all action nonsense'.
I do enjoy the genre as long as it's not too stupid.
Under Siege does actually work, even though Seagal has limited acting abilities. Tommy Lee Jones brings oodles of charisma to the screen as the baddie, ably assisted by the treachous naval officer, Busey. Seagals only real contribution is to say, quite well, "i'm just a cook'.
A disgruntled CIA operative (jones) who specialises in taking over ships/subs, decides to take over the last U.S. battle ship, why ? to sell the tomahawk missiles of course, presumably at the nearest boot fair.
Conveniently Busey (as first officer) is able to assist in taking over the ship. Their evil plan is to load a helicopter full of baddies pretending to be caterers, arriving on the Missouri for the captains 'surprise' party.
They take over the ship and seagal, assisted by a lady with remarkably fine personalities, has to prevent them succeeding in their evil plan.
Seagal is so wooden he could be made of oak, fortunately good actors do add life to the story.
It's a good action romp, obviously not to be taken tooooooo seriously, but it's fun.
Nice Sunday matinée with a few beers.
I do enjoy the genre as long as it's not too stupid.
Under Siege does actually work, even though Seagal has limited acting abilities. Tommy Lee Jones brings oodles of charisma to the screen as the baddie, ably assisted by the treachous naval officer, Busey. Seagals only real contribution is to say, quite well, "i'm just a cook'.
A disgruntled CIA operative (jones) who specialises in taking over ships/subs, decides to take over the last U.S. battle ship, why ? to sell the tomahawk missiles of course, presumably at the nearest boot fair.
Conveniently Busey (as first officer) is able to assist in taking over the ship. Their evil plan is to load a helicopter full of baddies pretending to be caterers, arriving on the Missouri for the captains 'surprise' party.
They take over the ship and seagal, assisted by a lady with remarkably fine personalities, has to prevent them succeeding in their evil plan.
Seagal is so wooden he could be made of oak, fortunately good actors do add life to the story.
It's a good action romp, obviously not to be taken tooooooo seriously, but it's fun.
Nice Sunday matinée with a few beers.