Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

1995 "Last time he rocked the boat. This time the sky's the limit."
5.6| 1h39m| R| en
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A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.
mm-39 Better than the original. Casey Ryback is in the wrong place at the wrong time fighting terrorists on a train. There is a satellite weapon! aka James Bond Diamonds are forever rip off story line. Ryback must protect his niece Katherine Heigl and save America. Great bad guys, cool fights, and a knife fight ending. Much better continuity, acting, and dialog than Under Siege. An entertaining movie night. 8 out of 10 stars. I liked it.
Leofwine_draca In 1992, there came a film which popularised a new action superstar to the world. That film was UNDER SIEGE, and that man was Steven Seagal. Three years later, the inevitable sequel arrived, and it was a flop. In fact, it went straight to video in this country. The law of diminishing returns simply meant that it just wouldn't hold up to the original film. But then I found out something strange. It did. And, in fact, it's better than the original classic, which was pretty darned good as well. Perhaps it's the pacing, the setting, or the creative force behind the film which makes it work, or perhaps it's simply the sight of Seagal beating up bad guys once again. I don't know, but I love this film.The use of a train as a setting is a neat idea, and the scenes are all played very well. Every inch of the train is used for action and stalking sequences, and Seagal even gets off the train at one point, only to board it (by jumping from a speeding car) later on. It's fantastically unrealistic, but it's still hugely enjoyable. Seagal hides in the toilet, in the cold storage, everywhere really, and as it's a double decker train, there are always enough places to hide in.Although there's been an obvious weight gain since UNDER SIEGE, Seagal is still on top form, using a wide variety of weaponry against the many bad guys he kills in this film. He throws knives, shoots different guns, stabs, breaks wrists and necks, burns, throws people from trains (and under trains), punches, kicks, and even practises martial arts on the baddies, so that the death scenes are never boring, just very creative. The claret is on full flow in this film too, with all of the wrist-snapping neck-cracking bone-breaking bloody action that we have come to expect from a Seagal movie. Seagal confessed that he was down while making the film due to a split up with his wife, but don't worry, it doesn't show. In fact he doesn't need to show much expression, as he's simply a quick, agile, intelligent killing machine with literally hundreds of tricks up his sleeve.Eric Bogosian hams it up deliciously as the over the top villain, and he's memorable for it; hardly threatening though, and more like a computer geek. The brawn is supplied in the hefty form of Everett McGill, a guy who uses pepper spray as mouth wash and who cuts an imposing presence on screen. The final showdown between himself and Seagal is superb, probably the best fight ever, and it lasts for a while as well (something of a change in a Seagal film). I loved it. The rest of the cast support the main actors well, with an unwilling accomplice, a young tough teenage girl facing certain death, Brenda Bakke as the glamour interest, two military guys returning from Under Siege and memorable screen villain Kurtwood Smith as a stuffy officer.If you're interested in DIE HARD rip-offs, then this really is one of the best. It has it all, a brilliant explosive climax where Seagal outruns a moving train wreck, gun play, gore, violence, suspense, everything. In fact, it's one of my favourite films of all time, and along with UNDER SIEGE, is one of the very best films in Seagal's filmography. I really can't think of a way to make it better or make my enjoyment of it greater.
maingaterealestate This is absolutely my favorite movie of all time. I just LOVE this movie and everything about it. In Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, terrorists hijack a passenger train, to set it up as a mobile and undetectable base for Travis Dane to use his high-tech computers to control a government nuclear satellite in hopes of blowing up the Pentagon, and the entire eastern seaboard. Funny, terrorists hijack a train to hijack a satellite. Anyway, all is going well for the terrorists, they have the perfect plan, take over a train, use it to blow up what they want, and then get rid of the evidence by driving in into a gasoline train. But, there's just one problem, and its the cook, Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) who is really an Ex-Navy Seal. And he is a flaw that will epically ruin Dane's plan. Steven Seagal, what a great actor, you can really tell who he is by his tone in this movie, which he's calm, he whispers, it's just great acting, and not just by Steven, ALL the actors in this movie. It's great acting and directing, and I Love the performance. The plot, while having some flaws, they are easily over-looked by the great action and peril going on. This movie was SO good at pulling me into it, I actually forgot I had seen the entire plot of this movie on Wikipedia, I was watching the movie, knowing what was going to happen, and I was STILL in suspense, I Loved the first Under Siege as well, and this movie is absolutely a 10 star movie. No mater what type of genre you are into, see this movie. www.egyptmaingate.com
mlk960 As a viewer from the year 2013, this was a bit hard to just watch. It may be entertaining if viewed as a comedy, but it is very difficult to watch it seriously. No, I don't think action movies have to be believable or realistic, but I do think it is the film's job to hide this fact and overshadow it with a great performance in all other areas of the movie.This is why this very movie is terrible. The script is overdosed with a beyond ridiculous plot structure and garbage dialogue. Maybe it was a bit more underscored when it came out in 1995, but 18 years later it is just painful to experience.If you don't really care about the quality of the film you are watching, I guess you could watch it. But, why pick this action flick over any other film of it's category anyways?