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Release Date:
18 February 1994 (USA)
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Tagline:
His battle to save the Alaskan wilderness and protect its people can only be won...
Plot:
Mystical martial artist/environmental agent takes on a ruthless oil corporation. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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6 nominations
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(3 articles)
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(From Cinematical. 23 October 2009, 5:15 PM, PDT)
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(From Cinematical. 23 October 2009, 5:15 PM, PDT)
Review: Ong Bak 2
(From Cinematical. 23 September 2009, 5:02 PM, PDT)
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Rub noses with me, "Eskimo" maiden
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Steven Seagal | ... | Forrest Taft | |
| Michael Caine | ... | Michael Jennings | |
| Joan Chen | ... | Masu | |
| John C. McGinley | ... | MacGruder | |
| R. Lee Ermey | ... | Stone | |
| Shari Shattuck | ... | Liles | |
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... | Homer Carlton | |
| Richard Hamilton | ... | Hugh Palmer | |
| Chief Irvin Brink | ... | Silook | |
| Apanguluk Charlie Kairaiuak | ... | Tunrak | |
| Elsie Pistolhead | ... | Takanapsaluk | |
| John Trudell | ... | Johnny Redfeather | |
| Mike Starr | ... | Big Mike | |
| Sven-Ole Thorsen | ... | Otto (as Swen-Ole Thorsen) | |
| Jules Desjarlais | ... | Drunken Eskimo |
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Runtime:
102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Netherlands:12 |
Iceland:16 |
Philippines:R-18 |
Canada:16+ (Quebec) |
Canada:18A |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:MA |
Finland:K-18 |
France:-12 |
Germany:18 |
Singapore:M18 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 (cut) |
USA:R |
Norway:18 (video premiere) (1994) |
Norway:(Banned) (1994-2003) (cinema release)
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The ideas for titles of the film were “Rainbow Warrior” and “Spint Warrior”.
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Plot holes: Forrest Taft seemingly goes from Alaska's North Slope to the coast on a Snowmobile with no extra gas in a day's time.
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References Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
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HOUSE OF MY FRIENDS
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Isn't Arisa Wolf who play's the Makeup Girl Steven Seagals girlfriend?more
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In this Alaskan film, Joan Chen plays what is quite probably the last word in Sino-Eskimo snow bunnies.
Eskimo Joan represents the same sort of Hollywood confusion about racial boundary lines which saw Larry Fishburne play the Moor of Venice, and Jackie Chan cast to play the King of Pop in an upcoming TV movie. (I'm kidding about one of these.) Not to mention generations of Italian and Jewish Indians, and more white actors in blackface than there are seeds in a watermelon.
Joan is teamed here with Steven Seagal, quite probably the last word in inarticulate and extremely violent tree-hugging Buddhists. Sort of the Billy Jack of the Barents Sea. His jacket has more fringe on it than you'd see at a reunion concert by the Buffalo Springfield.
Together, they try to build a world where an interracial couple can be happy in an oomiak built for two.
A number of years ago, I spent nearly 8 seconds at a book-signing in the presence of Michael Caine. For each of those seconds, he was extremely personable. So it's a bit of a revelation for me seeing him playing his two-faced vicious Hun of a smooth oil company CEO. Old favourite John C. McGinley also appears against type as one of Caine's nastier henchthugs.
Finally, there's Seagal's direction which takes his film on this ecological walk through the woods which makes it all seem a little like Oliver Stone after too many days trapped in a sweatlodge.
It's so ridiculous I actually found myself enjoying the whole thing quite a bit.