5.1
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.
Steven Seagal
Forrest Taft
Michael Caine
Michael Jennings
Joan Chen
Masu
John C. McGinley
MacGruder
R. Lee Ermey
Stone
Shari Shattuck
Liles
Billy Bob Thornton
Homer Carlton
Richard Hamilton
Hugh Palmer
John Trudell
Johnny Redfeather
Mike Starr
Big Mike
Sven-Ole Thorsen
Otto
Irvin Kershner
Walters
Kenji
Rook
Ivan Kane
Spinks
Chic Daniel
Chic
Sonny D.M. Peralez
Medicine People
Louise Fletcher
Bartender (uncredited)
Michael Jai White
Oil Worker (uncredited)
Carlotta Chang
Dream Girl
James Lew
Mercenary at Aegis 1 (uncredited)
Bart the Bear
Bear
Nils Allen Stewart
Oil Worker (uncredited)
Craig Ng
Worker #2
Reid Asato
Etok
Director
Steven Seagal
Screenplay
Ed Horowitz
Screenplay
Robin U. Russin
March 10, 2013
4
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.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$50,000,000.00
Revenue:
$49,000,000.00