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On Deadly Ground

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5.1/10 • 463

1994-02-181h 41m

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His battle to save the Alaskan wilderness and protect its people can only be won On Deadly Ground.

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land—just as long as it's making money for him.

Directors
Steven Seagal
Editors
Robert A. Ferretti

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Steven Seagal

    Steven Seagal

    Forrest Taft

  2. Michael Caine

    Michael Caine

    Michael Jennings

  3. Joan Chen

    Joan Chen

    Masu

  4. John C. McGinley

    John C. McGinley

    MacGruder

  5. R. Lee Ermey

    R. Lee Ermey

    Stone

  6. Shari Shattuck

    Shari Shattuck

    Liles

  7. Billy Bob Thornton

    Billy Bob Thornton

    Homer Carlton

  8. Richard Hamilton

    Richard Hamilton

    Hugh Palmer

  9. John Trudell

    John Trudell

    Johnny Redfeather

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Per Gunnar Jonsson Avatar

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Mar 10, 2013

4/10

When I saw that this movie was given on Cine+ Frisson last evening and there was nothing else on I thought, why not? It is Steven Seagal and Michael Cane after all. Okay, Steven Seagal is not always a good thing but Michael Cane usually do not disappoint. I had seen it before but it was long time ago. Now I kind of wonder why on earth I did watch this movie again. This is a typical example of the fact that an actor, even though he might have done a set of successful movies, should generally stay with what he does well and not be allowed to get into the directors chair. Especially not if he has some bullshit political agenda and plans to fill the movie with this. There are some good moments in the movie where Steven Seagal is allowed to do what he does best which is fighting. Michael Cane is also good as always although his role is really so exaggerated that it borders on the ridiculous. His henchman is simply stupid. He is supposed to be an experienced tough guy and yet he panics at the first movement and shoots an Eskimo in front of the whole tribe. Yeah, right, very professional…not! The team of mercenaries that they bring in is slightly better but even they are fairly amateurish with the possible exception of the team leader. The pseudo-magic bla bla with the Eskimos in the middle of the movie could have worked in a different kind of movie but in this one it is just a boring filler. The entire movie is basically done to promote Steven Seagal’s political agenda protesting against big companies, the oil industry and his ideas about the future. I really do not like political propaganda in movies and this one is simply filled with tacky green left-wing nonsense. The propaganda speech at the end is so far off and ridiculously detached from reality that it is embarrassing. It is rumoured that this speech originally lasted 30 minutes but that Warner stepped in and cut it down (thank god). The only reason this movie did not get an even lower rating by me is because Michael Cain is doing a good job of the lousy role that he has and that there are some decent fighting scenes.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$50,000,000.00
Revenue
$49,000,000.00
Keywords
martial artspetrolcorruptionfightmercenaryinuitsecret agenttribewoodsalaskaterrorismone man armyone against manyenviromentalaction herogood versus evil