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- From: blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu (Brian L. Johnson)
- Subject: REVIEW: UNDER SIEGE
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:14:30 GMT
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- UNDER SIEGE
- A film review by Ken Johnson
- Copyright 1992 Ken Johnson
-
- 100 min., R, Action, 1992
- Director: Andrew Davis
- Cast: Steven Segal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak,
- Colm Meany, Andy Romano, Patrick O'Neal, Michael Des Barres
-
- Aboard a heavily armed warship, the captain's, Patrick O'Neal,
- birthday is coming up. The crew plans a surprise party for O'Neal and
- brings aboard a centerfold girl, Erika Eleniak, and a band.
- Unfortunately for them, the band is a gang of revolutionists lead by
- Tommy Lee Jones, who take over the ship. The only man on board who can
- stop them is the cook, Steven Segal.
-
- I just saw Steven Segal's newest film UNDER SIEGE and loved it. I
- highly suggest that you go and see this film. I think that it is
- Segal's best film yet. This film is all that the television
- advertisements made it out to be, and much more. On a scale of zero to
- five, I give UNDER SIEGE a five. UNDER SIEGE is rated R for explicit
- language, graphic violence, and brief female nudity.
-
- The special effects for this film are great. This film is a lot
- gorier than most of Segal's earlier films, but the gore doesn't feel out
- of place. In my opinion, it only adds to the film. The sets for the
- film are excellent and really place the film well. This is definitely a
- film to see in the theaters, because it will lose so much on a small
- screen.
-
- Segal gives his normal unemotional performance, that I feel makes
- him the popular actor that he is. He seems to have no problem running
- around a warship breaking people's arms and the like. Tommy Lee Jones
- gives the best performance in this film as the crazy revolutionist. His
- performance is extremely realistic, and at some points even scary. Gary
- Busey also played a person who is not entirely there. Like Tommy Lee
- Jones, Busey gave an excellent performance. Erika Eleniak was a
- surprise in this film; she started out as the typical action movie bimbo
- that Hollywood seems to stick into most of this kind of film. At first
- the only reason that I thought that she was put in the film was to
- provide the one brief scene of gratuitous nudity, but part way through
- the film she changed and actually became a use to Segal.
-
- There isn't much to say about the writing. It is of the usual
- "slam bam" action film quality. It doesn't hurt or help the film much
- at all. The direction by Andrew Davis, who has done ABOVE THE LAW which
- also starred Steven Segal, is good and certainly doesn't hurt the film.
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- Ken Johnson
- blj@mithrandir.cs.unh.edu
-
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