When the blockbuster success of “Under Siege” propelled his stardom into the stratosphere, Steven Seagal cashed his chips on a big-budget environmentalist action movie…that he also directed. The result was “On Deadly Ground”, a bone-breaking action adventure and one of the strangest movies ever released by a major studio.
Steven Seagal is an Alaskan firefighter. Michael Caine is a ruthless oil executive. And no oligarch is safe when the Aikido Ace learns about how the oil industry is contaminating the ecosystem. After taking a vision quest to reconnect with his Indigenous heritage, it’s up to Seagal to save the environment from an industry that values profit above all else.
Important Cinema Club Masterpiece Classics presents a beautifully-shot epic that combines action, melodrama, and the kind of philosophical content that only Steven Seagal could provide. It’s about time that cinema’s most eccentric superstar was back on a screen big enough to contain his mighty ambition.
