Under Siege (Widescreen/Full Screen): Amazon.ca: Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones, Erika Eleniak, Colm Meaney, Patrick O'Neal, Andy Romano, Nick Mancuso, Damian Chapa, Troy Evans, David McKnight, Lee Hinton, Andrew Davis, Arnon Milchan, Gary W. Goldstein, J.F. Lawton, Jack B. Bernstein, Joel Chernoff, Peter Macgregor-Scott: DVD

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Steven Seagal can consider himself lucky if he ever makes a better movie than this one, which was appropriately dubbed "Die Hard on a battleship" when released in 1992. Seagal handles the heroic duties with his usual wooden efficiency, but the movie's greatest assets are a punchy script and the scene-stealing performances of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. The two play leaders of a terrorist group who take over the venerable battleship USS Missouri during its final commissioned voyage. They're crazed psychotics who seize control of the ship's nuclear arsenal, but they don't know that Seagal--as the ship's cook, no less--is a former Navy hero, lurking in the shadows and waiting to spoil their nefarious scheme. Director Andrew Davis (The Fugitive) helms the action with skillful style, and as the cheesecake stripper who proves handy with a hand grenade, Playboy Playmate-turned-actress Erika Eleniak gives Seagal another reason to strut his macho stuff. Under Siege is hormonal hokum for gun-happy viewers, but as action movies go, this one's a definite guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon

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2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing visual quality for blu-ray, Jan 4 2010

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This review is from: Under Siege [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I like this movie, but was hoping for much better picture quality than what this blu-ray offers. It's quite disappointing. Though there are moments here and there of good clarity, for the most part this film is unfortunately dull and grainy. (Did they just transfer portions from vhs tape? Because at times it looks that bad.) Maybe the regular dvd looks better or at least as good, so consider your options. Also, there are no extras on the blu-ray except for the grainy trailer.

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4.0 out of 5 stars i think it's one of Seagal's top three movies (3.5/5), Feb 19 2008

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falcon "disdressed12" (canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Under Siege (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)

this Seagal flick is pretty darn good.the hand to hand combat scenes
are very well done here.of course,Seagal is his usual stone faced
self,when it comes to his acting.but there are some great supporting
players in this one.Gary Busey,Nick Mancuso,Tommy Lee Jones,and Colm
Meaney are all stellar.and of course Erika Eleniak is also in the
movie,which could be a good or bad thing,depending on your
view.anyway,this thing is fairly action packed,though not exactly
original.you could call it Die Hard on A Ship.it is however,one of
Seagal's better movies.in fact,i think it would be in the top three of
his movies.The only two i can think of that are better are,the
sequel,Under Siege 2 and Exit Wounds.if you're a Seagal fan you might
want to check those two out also.for me,Under Siege is a 3.5/5

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3.0 out of 5 stars Merely average DIE HARD retread, July 15 2004

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Kenji Fujishima (East Brunswick, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Under Siege (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD)

This may be Steven Seagal's best film, but as an action film UNDER SIEGE is very average. It borrows its basic plot structure from the vastly superior DIE HARD, but while DIE HARD had a believably human and vulnerable hero in Bruce Willis' John McClane, UNDER SIEGE simply has the wooden Steven Seagal as the near-invincible Casey Ryback, the cook onboard the USS Missouri who happens to be a former Navy SEAL who has a lot of weapons expertise and the like. While McClane spent most of DIE HARD trying to get in and out of trouble with terrorists, Ryback basically spends a good majority of UNDER SIEGE simply killing them one by one in various "cool" ways. You never feel that Ryback's life is truly threatened by the bad guys---he's just a killing machine, and only head baddie William Stranix (Tommy Lee Jones, in a highly entertaining performance that brings slightly more interest than this movie deserves) truly matches up to him---and thus you never really get involved in the hero or this movie like you do in DIE HARD. You simply watch Ryback cut his path of righteous destruction in a brain-dead, gaga state (and occasionally laugh at some of Seagal's line readings), and while you are occasionally entertained, you might realize how dumb this movie truly is.

Some people, of course, don't mind occasional no-brainer entertainment like this. Believe me, I enjoy the occasional brainless action film, just as long as it has an involving plot, entertaining characters, and good action scenes. UNDER SIEGE only half-delivers---its plot never truly involved me; the main bad guys (Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey) are a lot more entertaining than its hero; and the action scenes, for the most part, are just average (except for that marvelous knife fight at the end). In short, UNDER SIEGE is a pretty stupid movie, and if you're looking for truly great, even intelligent action entertainment, you would do best to look elsewhere. Heck, even this film's sequel, UNDER SIEGE 2, is slightly more entertaining than this! Skip it.

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