Beyond doubt. He wasn't superhuman in this, got roughed up here and there, and used guns instead of the usual martial arts. Also, the usually annoying Arnold was effective here, as well as the fat black guy. The only other Seagal film I feel was as good was his first-ABOVE THE LAW-although GLIMMER MAN was watchable.
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Just watched it again and still stand by this.
shareIt's a great Seagal movie, but I think his best ones are Under Siege and Above The Law.
shareDitto his Under Seige and Above the Law comments. Oh, and I know that his gun of choice is always the 1911 model .45 ACP but that thing he shot the chain cuffs off with when the van was sliding was just ridiculous.
Most people aspire to drink from the fountain of knowledge, i just wanna gargle
Under Siege, Marked For Death, Hard To Kill and Out For Justice are my picks. I also enjoy Under Siege 2:Dark Territory and On Deadly Ground.
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The reason I'm even making a comment is that I missed this in 2001 and am up sick with a flu. Sept '09
As a 50+ judo player and Wushu practitioner I watch the fight choreography (- here is an excellent, and not my review, of this sub-genre http://ejmas.com/jtc/2006jtc/jtcart_couch_0706.html) if you like the arts, take time to read this excellent short analysis. )
I don't much care about the armory, or how bad a shot everybody is (but, SS can can deliver a kick to a Hypodermic perfectly to just inject poison in the neck of the kidnap driver (the cars are nice- what little we actually see of them - and we aren't destroying cars at the "Bourne Supremacy" level because those were all utility or mid-grade consumer cars, not super-cars) - but that's all expected in these northern-european chop-socky films liberally mixed with "ghetto - black culture - hip-hop and 70's Blaxploitatioon.
What I thought was a major variation was that a 58 year old player "SS" "isn't" invincible and DMX gets 1/3 of the decent moves/hits in their first major fight.
The use of Jill Cognac (Hennessy) and Tom Arnold completes the pastiche. Nobody is a good shot, everybody has super cars (that never get scratched) lots of lifts of scenes from other, similar genre films. I suppose that the Rain-puryfing scene could be lifted from Superfly or Flash Dance....The sound track wasn't cheap...it is one possible good comment.
A piece of expensive eye candy with no serious plot, save that SS is gracefully admitting the limits of his age.
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