Caught up with a film I hadn’t seen in a while last night the 1992 action film ‘Under Siege’. So what do we have here! A battleship USS Missouri heading for decommissioning taken over by a load of modern day pirates and a cook Casey Ryback played by Steven Seagal.
This is one of Seagal’s early films and I rate it has one of his better films and there are not many of them this one entertained me the only criteria that means anything to me. It’s everything you now expect from a Seagal film, some ham humour, plenty of action, over the top bad guys and a beautiful young woman.
The USS Missouri heading for port but his No. 2 Cmdr. Krill (Gary Busey) as planned a surprised birthday party for the captain. He flies on board a group of terrorists under the cover as a band, caterers and a stripper more of whom later. Seagal cook Casey Ryback an ex-Navy Seal then sets out to save the day and the crew once the baddies make their move.
The baddies set about stealing the nuclear missiles in order to sell them on the black market to the highest bidder now that Krill and former special ops agent Stranix (Tommy Lee Jones) are running the ship. Both were highly entertaining in their roles. Meanwhile after escaping the meat locker Krill had Ryback locked up in and acquiring some weapons, time for some payback.
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Somehow, everyone forgot about the stripper who fell asleep in the cake and only bursts out when Ryback bumps into the oversized cake. Erika Eleniak (Jordan Tate) plays the stripper who is unforgettable with at body, better stop there. She and Ryback join forces and course the baddies plenty of trouble.
When Ryback asked Jordan how many bad guys were in the helicopter with her she said, around 30 and not running a body count but he must have killed more than half and it was still only half way through the film. There are a stream of witty one-liners being dispatched whenever Ryback fights a bad guy. And if it's not Ryback delivering the comic turn it is Tommy Lee Jones whose purposely over the top bad guy has an almost "Joker" element to him as he struts about in a deranged way.
Stranix rendezvous with a submarine to off load the nuclear missiles while Ryback and a small group of sailors try to upset the apple cart. With the sub loaded and underway Ryback and his motley group man one of the Missouri big guns, luckily in their group was a retired master gunner so no luck on the sub getting away then.
All that was left was the show down between Ryback and Stranix with knifes, Navy Seal and Special ops Agent, kind of reminds me of the History Channel show the ‘Ultimate Soldier Challenge’. But there was always going to be one winner … The one with top billing in the film.
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