Style: Motion Thriller
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey
Working Time: 103 minutes
Synopsis: The USS Missouri battleship is commandeered by terrorists led by rogue CIA Agent Strannix (Tommy Lee Jones) and the ship’s Govt Officer Krill (Gary Busey), utilizing a shock occasion for the captain as a ruse. The ship’s cook dinner is ex-Navy SEAL Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal), and he groups up with ex-Playboy playmate Jordan Tate (Erika Eleniak) to disrupt the terrorists’ plot to switch the battleship’s nuclear missiles onto a North Korean submarine on the market to the very best bidder.
What Works Nicely: This can be a simple Die Exhausting On A Battleship thriller, infused with sufficient angle to ascertain a separate identification. The bad-guy duo of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey luxuriate in bewildering unpredictability as they dance on the sting of insanity, Busey dressing up as a girl for the pretend captain’s occasion, Jones channeling his inside has-been or never-was rock star. Steven Seagal offers the rational stoic counterweight with few phrases however loads of one-liners and spectacular kills, and Erika Eleniak contributes quirky presence because the centerfold caught approach exterior her consolation zone.
What Does Not Work As Nicely: The B-grade script serves up outsized logic holes, and the nefarious plot will get extra muddled and fewer spectacular with each passing scene. The terrorists are resourceful sufficient to take over a battleship however possess no coherent follow-up plan, whereas again at Navy headquarters, the impotent disaster mis-management staff of navy commanders collect round a desk and flirt with an terrible unintended satire of Dr. Strangelove.
Key Quote:
Jordan Tate: You are not a cook dinner.
Casey Ryback: Yeah, properly… I additionally cook dinner.
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