In hindsight this would be the peak of Steven Seagal's career - good story, good director, excellent villains, strong support cast, high production values... He looks so slim, so relaxed and confident, it was kind of sad.
The Die Hard on a boat stuff works well - it's solid and entertaining with plenty of good set up stuff: Seagal working as a cook, the treacherous XO (Gary Busey), the loyal captain (Patrick O'Neal), the head terrorist being a CIA renegade (Tommy Lee Jones), Seagal's main ally being a stripper who jumps out of a cake (Erika Eleniak).
Funnily enough the end of this got a bit wonky - less exciting with people sitting around pressing buttons, less human somehow, and a not very convincing fight between Jones and Seagal (though it is funny how the knife is rammed into a dummy Jones' head - I always remembered the bad slow motion from this sequence). I felt he should've killed Gary Busey hand to hand.
There's not much chemistry between Seagal and Eleniak, she's more like his kid sister, but it's good to have her along. There's a nice "team" vibe you didn't get in many Seagal movies - especially when he teams up with some other people who didn't get caught.
Colm Meaney adds extra acting firepower as another baddy. But the film is stolen by Busey and Jones who have the time of their lives, acting up a storm - Busey's even in drag. Two great villains. It's a fun movie.
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