1995 Directed by Geoff Murphy
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.
Steven Seagal Eric Bogosian Everett McGill Katherine Heigl Morris Chestnut Peter Greene Patrick Kilpatrick Scott Sowers Andy Romano Brenda Bakke Sandra Taylor Jonathan Banks David Gianopoulos Royce D. Applegate Nick Mancuso Christopher Darga Don Blakely Dale Dye Kurtwood Smith Phyllis Davis Wren T. Brown Al Sapienza Joe Bucaro III James Lew
Under Siege 2, Under Siege 2 - Dark Territory, 언더씨즈2, Under Siege 2։ Dark Territory, Alarmstufe: Rot 2
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is your captor speaking.”
This rating is based solely on my enjoyment.
Cinematically, it’s not as good as the first.. but I enjoyed it’s ridiculous “over-the-top” nature way more.
This has 1000 times more schlock and that’s what I want mainlined straight into my veins.
If this film had anyone other then Steven Seagal cast in the main role (preferably Kurt Russell or Bruce Willis) it would be a fantastic film. However, casting Eric Bogosian as the slimy, cocky computer hacker was just perfect and makes up for it.
"I guess I'm not trained for this"
When Jerry Seinfeld, Big Ed Hurley and Mike Ehrmantraut hijack a train and use it to launch missiles to extort money from the U.S. Government, probably to help fund quiet drapes, only one person to can save the world: Steve Seagal.
If you could read past my first paragraph filled to the brim with popular television show references to get those likes pumping, here's my actual review: it's fun, hilarious, cheesy, and reminds me of usual '90's sequels.
The long forgotten "'90's Sequel" is a very unusual sort of sequel, because it's not really a sequel at all, more so a remake. Sequels in the '90's usually remake the original film but place…
Casey Ryback pops back three years after his initial bow in Under Siege with the originally named Under Siege 2 : Dark Territory, with the former SEAL vacationing on the wrong train where he's drawn into yet another battle with terrorists. Katherine Heigl is along for the ride as his niece, but yet again Seagal gets upstaged by the villains of the piece, this time the criminally underrated Eric Bogosian and Everett McGill, a man who looks harder than a coffin nail. It's the same schtick as before, Ryback outnumbered and outgunned by heavily armed terrorists intent on blowing up Washington with a particle weapon, only this time we have a train providing the claustrophobic atmosphere where Ryback has no…
Admittedly, there's quite a lot wrong with Under Siege 2.
Its main problem is the use of its cast. Aside from objecting tothem getting rid of the lovely Brenda Bakke after only half an hour, you have a film with two of the better villain character actors in recent memory given absolutely nothing to do. I don't give a shit about Eric Bogosian and his fucking computer. Why have they stuck Jonathan Banks with driving a bloody train? And why have they cast Kurtwood Smith as a GOOD GUY?
All of these are massively foolish. Bogosian is absolutely awful. He delivers his lines like he's on a sportswear commercial. Of course, a film like this shouldn't really be downgraded by…
If Die Hard clones are their own sub-genre, then Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is assuredly one of the finest examples of it. This film is very shlock-y for a 90s blockbuster, but it knows it, and it plays its absurd premise completely straight, while constantly moving.
Steven Seagal is a despicable human being, but he's also one of the most interesting, so he strikes a weird balance. I don't buy him as an action star, though, because aikido seems to be completely ineffective, and his fight scenes are some of the strangest and clumsiest I've seen. He's not in the same league as his contemporaries, and it's easy to see why he was ultimately relegated to the direct-to-video pile…
When the character Casey Ryback burst on to the screen in Under Siege, it gave Steven Seagal his most memorable role. It was an all-action film that showed the big guy's strengths as a movie star. He'll never be the greatest actor, but boy does he know how to kick ass, and with the success of that film it was inevitable they'd give him another run-out.
Under Siege 2-Dark Territory sees Ryback in the same scenario as detective John McClane, wrong place, wrong time. On vacation with his niece on a train from Denver to L.A., he unwittingly gets drawn into another battle with terrorists intent on blowing up Washington. It's about as far-fetched as the first film was, but…
Eric Bogosian’s face when that dude gets lit on fire is my face everyday of the pandemic.
Film 12 of 30 of Scavenger Hunt #49
I find it really hard not to love this movie. I'm not going to even fight it. It's so dumb and Steven Seagal isn't much of an action star, but I'm starting to really appreciate the man and his low-talking, pony-tail wearing, never smiling version of bad-assdom. Great selection of cool character actors for the bad guys, and that ending is pretty spectacular even if it's completely implausible. I think that the first Under Siege might be a technically better movie, but I enjoyed this one a bit more, especially with like a half million dummy falls that occur in this movie. I love me a good dummy fall.
During the middle of a knife fight one of the villains says to Seagal "Good morning" like it's supposed to be some kind of one-liner. What the fuck?
Absurd, almost quaint, but loaded with character actors, idiosyncratic performances & nasty analog violence. Yay cheap thrills!
Much better than anticipated. I still don't lile Seagal as an actor, but this fast paced movie does make some fun.
So it's basically the first movie except on a train and without the terrible Cajun accent but with larger plot holes, a better final knife fight, great villains (Bogosian, Everett McGill, Peter Greene), missiles that move faster than the speed of light, terrible CGI, some nice train model crashes and Seagal continuing his attempt to be a likable roguish action star. Definitely a step down from his first 5 films, but this is the last Seagal flick that can be viewed semi-unironically (although I have a soft spot for Glimmer Man).
Just as good, maybe even better than the first one. Such delightful trash anchored by a hell of a fun villain performance by Eric Bogosian.
Brings nothing new to the ex-Navy SEAL fighting terrorists on a train for control of killer satellite genre.
Fucking Segal, it’s like he doesn’t even try with some of his karate chops, so goddam lazy. The first one is better cause of the bad guys, I mean you can’t compare Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Buddy for these second rate chumps in this one.
“Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is your captor speaking.”
This rating is based solely on my enjoyment.
Cinematically, it’s not as good as the first.. but I enjoyed it’s ridiculous “over-the-top” nature way more.
This has 1000 times more schlock and that’s what I want mainlined straight into my veins.
If this film had anyone other then Steven Seagal cast in the main role (preferably Kurt Russell or Bruce Willis) it would be a fantastic film. However, casting Eric Bogosian as the slimy, cocky computer hacker was just perfect and makes up for it.
Just the double S kickin ass AGAIN… for America
Young Morris Chesnut and Eric Bogosian- let’s gooooo!!!!
I still have no idea what Dark Territory is, or what the fuck else was happening in this movie, but at least Eric Bogosian is fun.
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