Under Siege (1992)

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Excellent but underrated film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Erika Eleniak jumping topless out of a giant cake. 10 stars.Rest of it, don't remember. Think there was something about a boat and a cook who wasn't really a cook. I dunno, 5 stars?Split the difference and call it 7.On reflection, extra star for the cake bit, 8 stars.

Gets better with age! When I first saw Under Siege I thought cheesy, and far fetched! Well disgruntled professionals, crazy plans, and unbalance dialog is believe. Not in 92 but believable for 2017. Bussey is great as an angry Navel officer. Jones is great as an angry/crazy, but brilliant/mad disgruntled ex C I A employee. The taking of the ship with real time martial arts is exciting. There is a evil plan and knife fight at the end. From a ugh movie to one I like to watch! Under Siege is repeated on cable t v over and over again. I can watch part one over and over too. Under Siege two is even better. 7 out of 10.

I guess the most memorable part of "Under Siege" was wondering whether such a thing could ever actually happen. No, not the SEAL- turned- cook part - the hijacking of a battleship. Like, could a terrorist group of about 30 men really take over a warship on the high seas?Well, the way this movie presented it, it would seem that they could! Bearing in mind that this movie was made long before the events of 9/11 and, had it been made about what happened then, I can imagine that a lot of reviewers would be writing things like, "Man!! THAT could never happen!" and we all now know the answer to that one don't we?So let's assume that it could be possible for a group of lunatic terrorists to take over a battleship and then offload all its strategic weaponry onto an enemy submarine. At least we now have a believable plot which then leaves us with Steven Seagal. Next question: Could a highly-trained Navy SEAL be busted to cook for insubordination? Obviously that would seem so too. Since I don't want to include any spoilers here that aren't already in the IMDb summary, suffice to say that Rybeck (Seagal) is (or was) a very efficient SEAL in his day because he very effectively deals with the gang of hijackers culminating with, firstly, the traitorous third officer Krill (not very well played by Gary Busey) and then the lead hijacker (very well played by Tommy Lee Jones).The reason for having ex-Playboy bunny Erika Eleniac on board as a "surprise" for the captain's birthday party was just sufficient to have her (and her ample bosom) in the movie although her extremely rapid change from bimbo to hard-nosed killer was a bit hard to take. Oh well, I guess we had to have it - after all, it is Hollywood!

Gee, I don't know - Seagal takes on thirty terrorists all by himself and comes out on top? I don't think so, but action fans love this kind of stuff and I'm a little partial to Seagal myself. Personally I prefer him when he's beating up on your standard bunch of saloon thugs or billiard room bullies where it's more up close and personal. At least you had Tommy Lee Jones and Miss July Gary Busey on hand here to add a maniacal touch to the festivities. Man, didn't Busey just creep you out in that dress and makeup? Probably the most unbelievable part of the story had Erika Eleniak go from a sniveling crybaby to an elite killer assassin in the space of an hour or so. Anyone could buy that, right? Well stuff like this is made for diversion and it's not the worst hour and a half you can spend. I'd have preferred a little more in the way of martial arts instead of the big guns but there are other Seagal films so you take what you get. Sure would like to have a birthday cake like that though.