On Deadly Ground

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

Runtime : 101 mins

Genre : Action Adventure Thriller

Vote Rating : 5.2/10

Budget : 50 million $ USD

Revenue : 49 million $ USD


Reviews for this movie are available below.

Plot : 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.

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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.

**_Steven Seagal jumps the shark_** A firefighter (Seagal) working for Aegis Oil in Alaska sees the light after oil rig workers perish using substandard equipment. The pompous CEO (Michael Caine) sends his heavies to take care of the interlopers (John C. McGinley and Sven-Ole Thorsen). R. Lee Ermey and Billy Bob Thornton show up in peripheral parts in the second half. "On Deadly Ground” (1994) was Seagal’s fifth film and the first after his hit “Under Siege.” He used his clout to get Warner Brothers to allow him to direct this movie, which he won a Golden Raspberry for after the flick was critically panned and flopped at the box office. To date, it’s his only directorial effort, not including a recent documentary. He rebounded with the successes of "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" (1995) and "Executive Decision" (1996), but the cracks were clear and he would have to move on to the direct-to-video market. Costing a whopping (at the time) $50 million, there are expected highlights, such as the scenic beauty of the Great Northwest, several dynamic action sequences and the environmental message is still relevant and potent. Unfortunately, it comes across sanctimonious. Worse, the characters are caricatures and the proceedings too comic booky with unintentionally amusing dialogues. You wonder how the actors could say the lines with a straight face. It’s like Seagal & his team had no concept of subtlety. This isn’t helped by the glaring plot holes: Why would a wealthy oil company wait until the last possible minute to complete and begin operating an oil rig or else forfeit the land rights to the Eskimos, especially since they had a whopping 20 years to do it? Would the expert heavies of such a major corporation totally ransack a house for a floppy disk, but miss the upstairs closet in the room with the computer? Would a group of Eskimos living in the most primitive conditions (huts with no appliances) just happen to keep a high-powered snowmobile hidden in case of an emergency? And, even if they did, how would it so readily start and function in such a freezing environment? Then there are bits that simply don’t ring true or are eye-rolling, like the racist loudmouthed Caucasian in the bar, who unconvincingly repents; or the Indian mysticism and laughable vision quest. As I said, the environmental message is good, but it’s conveyed in such a heavy-handed way that it became laughable for a lot of viewers. I’m mostly talking about Seagal’s well-meaning speech at the close, which originally ran well over 30 minutes before studio execs insisted that it be cut to about 4 minutes. A similar Seagal movie done right came out three years later, “Fire Down Below.” It runs 1 hour, 41 minutes, and was shot in Alaska (Valdez, Worthington Glacier and Nome), Washington (Seattle and Wenatchee National Forest), California (the Fletcher Oil Refinery in Carson) and Wyoming (Cody). GRADE: C

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