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On Deadly Ground (1994)

February. 18,1994
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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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Hellen
1994/02/18

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Solemplex
1994/02/19

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Arianna Moses
1994/02/20

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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Ezmae Chang
1994/02/21

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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nims-1975
1994/02/22

I just can't understand why this film was given a low score of 4.4 out of 10. This film was excellent and I also loved it. On Deadly Ground is an excellent Martial Arts Thriller about an environmental agent skilled in Martial Arts who has take on a ruthless and Malicious Oil Corporation. On Deadly Ground has some excellent acting by Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley and R. Lee Ermy. Michael Caines acting as the greedy and malicious villain Jennings was excellent and he really was great. The acting by the other actors was also excellent and On Deadly Ground was a tense film that I enjoyed watching. On Deadly Ground had some really tense action and also had some excellent Martial Arts fight scenes in it. This film might have been different to Above The Law and might have taken a long time for the fight scenes to come but the main thing was that they were in the film and they were also awesome.

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Rocky Relationship
1994/02/23

Forget "road House" in the cheese stakes, this hot mess of a movie beats it hands down.1994 was the year two Forrests, Gump and Taft, duked it out for box office supremacy, and the better retard won handily. but don't let that dissuade you from enjoying this supreme example of Steven Segal's monumental hubris. The man who professed to be so attuned to the plight of the Aleut cast Japanese women because actual Aleut women were deemed too ugly, at least in a romantic lead role. It gets better. Modern Aleut are depicted living in skin huts and travelling on dog sleds, until Segal arrives to save their primitive asses, whereby they reveal the Skidoo they have concealed in anticipation of the great day when a Caucasian Saviour will show up to employ this incomprehensible technology on their behalf. This is aggressively stupid and over-the-top racist even for Steven Segal, which is saying a lot. Anyone who has seen "On Deadly Ground" must have struck by the utter ludicrousness of protecting a sensitive eco-system by blowing up an oil well right in the middle of it; anyone, that is, except Steven Segal.Oh to live in a Segalian universe where no problem is so big or small that it can't be solved by beating the sh*t out of it. Strong work from Michael Caine whose unapologetic scenery-chewing constitutes an even bigger environmental threat than the aforementioned oil rig.

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Jamesfilmfan905
1994/02/24

This film is really abysmal apart from Micheal cane who is a credible villain and the action scenes are stunning there the two points that give it a resounding 2 sea-gal is terrible he is wooden and emotionless as always i grant you he is outstanding in the action scenes but that's all he can do his delivery of his lines is poor and the direction mediocre at best and the cinematography amateurish uneven the only thing that's good about the movie is Micheal cane who is a menacing and threatening as the villain of the piece he wants to destroy Alaska anyway overall sea-gal really needs to go back to drama school and learn how to act but in terms of the action sequences he his top notch a++++++++++ material that's all i can say .

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bh_tafe3
1994/02/25

Steven Segal saves the Alaskan wild from Michael Caine's evil oil rig owner in this preachy enviro-actioner packed with fighting and explosions.Segal stars as Forrest Taft (awesomely stupid name), an oil rig fire fighter who learns of unethical shenanigans in the running of Aegis Oil , an evil global conglomerate who purchased land in Alaska almost twenty years ago, and now has just two weeks to start drilling or they will lose their mining rights on the land. They cut some corners and make an unsafe rig. Taft is informed about the faulty equipment by rig foreman Hugh, and becomes the target of the evil Aegis CEO Michael Jennings (Michael Caine). Jennings gets his henchmen, led by MacGruder (John. C. McGinley), to kill Hugh and set up an explosion to take care of Taft. Taft survives the explosion and ends up being nursed back to health in an Eskimo Village by (Masu) Joan Chen.After Taft and Masu leave, Jennings sends his men to destroy the Eskimo Village. Taft has had enough and he is going to break into the oil refinery and blow this sucker sky high! This movie really aggravated people living in Alaskan communities as it portrayed Alaskan oil rigs in a negative light and depicted Alaskan people to be either racist whites or Eskimos, with nothing in between. Segal actually lived briefly in the area while being trained in oil rig fighting and presumably location filming.There is some nice scenery to watch here along with some good fighting sequences and the big explosion at the end is worth the lengthy set-up. But the environmental stuff is so preachy, and the two main baddies, McGinley and Caine are not fighters, so there is no big show down to enjoy. Segal and Caine bring what they always bring to their movies, and the presence of names like Chen, McGinley and Billy Bob Thornton, adds some gravitas to proceedings, but not enough.If you like Segal films, this has everything you would expect in one, and is well made, but the film indulges in simplistic stereotypes and contains endless preaching about the "evil that lurks in the hearts of men" and oil drilling, including a powerpoint presentation right before the end credits, and for many this will kill it.

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