Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.0/10   

Réalisateur:

Geoff Murphy

Writers (WGA):

J.F. Lawton (characters)
Richard Hatem (written by) ...

Release Date:

14 juillet 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Accroche:

The cook returns for this non stop action thriller! Casey Ryback, must escort his niece across the continental U.S by train. While on this trip Ryback encounters another Terrorist hell bend on revenge!

Plot:

Casey Ryback has now retired from the Navy and is now a chef at the Mile High Cafe in Denver, Colorado...

Plot Keywords:

Train | Niece | Satellite | Porter | Meat Cleaver

Avis des utilisateurs:

Seagal accidentally ends up on a train full of terrorists and has to save the world

Ensemble

Steven Seagal	...	Casey Ryback
Eric Bogosian	...	Travis Dane
Everett McGill	...	Marcus Penn
Katherine Heigl	...	Sarah Ryback
Morris Chestnut	...	Bobby Zachs
Peter Greene	...	Mercenary #1
Patrick Kilpatrick	...	Mercenary #2
Scott Sowers	...	Mercenary #3
Afifi Alaouie	...	Female Mercenary (as Afifi)
Andy Romano	...	Admiral Bates
Brenda Bakke	...	Captain Linda Gilder
Sandra Taylor	...	Kelly, Barmaid
Jonathan Banks	...	Scotty, Mercenary
David Gianopoulos	...	Captain David Trilling
Royce D. Applegate	...	Ryback's Cook

Autre(s) titre(s):

Under Siege 2
Express en détresse (Canada: French title) [fr]
Express en péril (Canada: French title) [fr]
Piège à grande vitesse (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and language.

Durée:

100 min | Germany:92 min (16-rated version)

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

SDDS | Dolby Digital

Classification:

Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | New Zealand:R (original rating) | New Zealand:R16 (VHS/DVD rating) | Finland:K-15 (DVD release) | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) (cut) | Singapore:PG (cut) | Philippines:R-18 | Italy:VM18 (tv rating) | Canada:14A | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-16 | Germany:18 (nf) | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (cut) | USA:R (Certificate #33883)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Anecdotes:

The scene of the destroyed industrial facility in China recycles unused footage from On Deadly Ground (1994) (another Steven Seagal movie). In On Deadly Ground, it's the burning Aegis Oil facility.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When people are walking on, or hanging on, a moving train, none of the clothes move in the wind.

Guillemet:

[first lines]
Gen. Cooper: Tom, thanks for coming.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "NewsRadio: Massage Chair (#3.3)" (1996)

Soundtrack:

AFTER THE TRAIN HAS GONE

Seagal accidentally ends up on a train full of terrorists and has to save the world

Yes, the earthquake beam from space (heck, the whole story line and all of the villains too) are totally unbelievable. Frankly, if you can find a "believable" action movie, I have a beach house in Arizona you might want to buy. Yes, the production values were not the finest.

But -- if you like watching the hero exterminate the bad guys, few do it with the style of Seagal. Like Jet Li (yeah, I am old enough to remember Bruce Lee the original, and Chuck Norris), he is one of the few action heroes who is a real martial arts guy, and he moves so fast and fluidly it is hard for the eye to follow, but fascinating to watch. This is brainless entertainment, full of hilariously cheesy B-movie one-liners you can laugh at ("Assumption is the mother of all f-ups!"), often bad acting, a story line you could describe in one sentence, and zero character development.

There are worse ways to spend 90 minutes. Believability is for films that take themselves seriously. Seagal is more like stand-up comic straight man meets Aikido ace. At least he handles a handgun like someone who has actually fired one.