This is actually an Incredible Movie

The genius it took to make this movie is lost on most people. What you need to realize is that there is some really great depth here. I know, you all think this is a straight-forward action movie about a guy who saves the planet from an oil company, but what if I told this movie was much closer to, say the Usual Suspects or Scarface, but only better?

You see, this movie is brilliantly told through the eyes of the villain, Steven Seagal (or whatever his character's name is in this movie).

Think about it. Steven Seagal initiates a bar fight in one of the early scenes that ends with several men likely crippled or at least unable to work for weeks, if not months. Prior to the fight, the bar tender even warns him not to destroy the place, meaning this sort of thing is a regular occurence with Steven Seagal. Indeed, he does cause significant damage to the bar.

But the real action occurs when Steven Seagal races to prevent Aegis 1 from going online, which he believes will result in an environmental disaster. So what does Steven Seagal do, even against the wishes of his Eskimo girlfriend? He assaults Aegis 1 and destroys it. As we see in the film, Aegis 1 is already pumping oil--R Lee Ermy was even submerged in the stuff. So the only conclusion possible is that Steven Seagal caused the very oil spill he was warning against. For reference, Deepwater Horizon suffered a catastrophic explosion and this caused the Gulf of Mexico to experience one of the worst oil spills in history. So Steven Seagal did to Alaska what Deepwater Horizon did to the Gulf.

Furthermore, Seagal destroys the station without ensuring all innocent workers were out of harms way. Sure, he warns guys when he crosses paths with them, but surely a massive rig like Aegis 1 had more than a dozen workers on it. I'm willing to bet more than a couple innocent people died in the explosions.
And what of the FBI? There is a scene where a couple of suits from the FBI--brought in due to claims that Seagal is a terrorist from an earlier explosion--reassure Michael Caine that they are "in position." Who is in position? Not the suits, what good could they do. No, there had to be a full team of FBI agents, probably even guys from HRT. I'm willing to bet Seagal killed some of them too. What were they guilty of? Doing a job.

As for the last scene, the five minute lecture from Steven Seagal about the environment. Sure, we can all laugh at his absurd statements now, but they were clearly the deranged manifesto notions of a dangerous man.

Clearly, Steven Seagal was a terrorist, and he had no qualms about killing to further his agenda. What kind of a person keeps high explosives in a cave? A terrorist does. What kind of a person inflicts bodily harm on innocent rig workers in a bar? A brute does. What kind of a man assaults an oil rig and destroys it, killing dozens of people along the way? A mass murderer.
In other Seagal movies, the notion of good vs bad is very clear. Not so in this one. Clearly, Seagal was intended to be the villain of this film, and you're all just not smart enough to realize the brilliance that is the depth of Seagal's directorial genius.