A mystical martial artist/environmental Agent takes on a ruthless oil corporation.
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Steven Seagal
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| 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 | |
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Chief Irvin Brink | ... | Silook |
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Apanguluk Charlie Kairaiuak | ... | Tunrak |
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Elsie Pistolhead | ... | Takanapsaluk |
| John Trudell | ... | Johnny Redfeather | |
| Mike Starr | ... | Big Mike | |
| Sven-Ole Thorsen | ... | Otto (as Swen-Ole Thorsen) | |
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Jules Desjarlais | ... | Drunken Eskimo |
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Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal) is an environmental Agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt C.E.O., Michael Jennings (Sir Michael Caine), is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long as it's making money for him. He even makes commercials that make him look like he cares about the environment. Jennings is almost finished with building his new state-of-the art oil rig: AEGIS-1. The problem is that if he doesn't finish building the rig in thirteen days, the land rights will be returned to the Eskimos and the Alaskan Government. When Jennings finds out that Taft's best friend Hugh Palmer (Richard Hamilton) has a computer disk that contains information about defective equipment on AEGIS-1, he sends out his goons to murder Palmer. When Taft tries to interfere, Jennings tries to kill Taft. But an Eskimo woman named Masu (Joan Chen), who introduces Taft to her father Silook (Chief Irvin Brink), ... Written by drayj65 <drayj65@hotmail.com>
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$50,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$12,679,573, 21 February 1994Gross USA:
$38,590,458Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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[Liles then slams into an oil pipe and is killed in the explosion]
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Written by Ronnie Dunn
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Liles: [Liles is escaping, and sees Taft] FUCK HIM![Liles then slams into an oil pipe and is killed in the explosion]
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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.