By the standards of later Segal movies this is a masterpiece but there's no denying it's a drop from the first.
Instead of Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey there's Eric Bognosian and Everett McGill, both of whom are fine actually just not as good - Boganosian cuts lose and McGill gives a good wound-up performance (though I could've done without the creepy leching on Katherine Heigl).
Instead of a battleship there's a train, which isn't that bad a substitute - although some of the back projection is unconvincing.
Instead of Erica Eleniak there's Morris Chestnut, who isn't as pretty and isn't as fun - and means there isn't a love story (they sort of hint there's going to be one with this conductor person but she doesn't last). There's also Heigl, who's Seagal's niece - she's a good looking girl, but it feels a bit, I don't know, lech-y to have her there.
Geoff Murphy's direction is competent, I liked the views of the rockies and there's some decent action and stunts. Seagal kicks a lot of arse and has a good time.
There's some cute 90s technology - references to faxes and CDs.
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