Bad Movie Beatdown: On Deadly Ground (REVIEW)
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=Originally posted August 5th, 2009; Re-edited for CZcams=
Steven Seagal is in the director's chair. That says it all. Season 1, Episode 8.
#StevenSeagal #OnDeadlyGround #MichaelCaine #JohnCMcGinley #BillyBobThornton
True story: I was visiting my friend in Chicago, and on a lark he mentioned: "Let's go eat at Steven Seagal's restaurant." It was a Saturday and figured the place would be booked. We called--a smarmy voice on the telephone answered. "Yeah, we're full up. Got to get reservations well in advance if you wanna' eat here, right?" He paused. "Look, come on down, ask for 'Biggie', and I'll make sure you're seated."
So, we went. Inside the place was a living tribute to Steven Seagal: large screens ran his movies non-stop and in all directions. Full-sized cases displayed his costumes and props, a-la Hard Rock café style. And … the place was empty, moribund, dead. I think we were the only people there besides the staff. We ate--the food was total crap, just as bland and tasteless as his films, took way too long to get served and was over-priced to boot. Now, if you try calling Steven Seagal's restaurant, you get a disconnected message. Place went tits up, and thank God for it.
Steven seagal had a restaurant?
Sure sounds like an establishment a BFF of Poopin would run...
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It's August 4 2020. Literally almost 11 years after the upload of this video. I remember watching your videos every Friday morning back in the days. I can't believe it's been so long, even though time has passed so quickly. That's like 13% of a human life time. Soon it will be 2029, and this video will be as old as movies from 1989 were back then.
Life on this planet is short, and if you never read any comment I might ever write again, just remember that your videos helped make this world a little bit more worth it, Matthew.
@@SebastianLundh1988 4th
That's the main problem with Seagal movies, he's the invincible hero so you don't feel any sense of impending drama. Take it in contrast with pretty much any other action movie and you can see how much it makes a difference. Take Jackie Chan for instance, he always starts at the underdog position and works his way up, he gets hit, he shows pain he bleeds. In all of his encounters you feel like he has a possibility of losing despite being the protagonist so you are on the edge of your seat and when he does finally kick their ass it feels deserved and you root for him. Seagal just roflstomps his opponent like he's trying to be a living god and none of it feels earned. He just goes in wrecks their shit and leaves, it boring and repetitive. I know the guy has a black belt but that doesn't necessarily mean he should be invincible, freaking Chuck Norris has a black belt and he still gets hit in his movies.
well in this movie at least he is fighting nobodys, just guys in a bar a black belt at least a real one would usually not get hit by nobodys, in a few other movies he has been hit but because they were more skilled guys.
yeah in his earlier movies he's fighting nobody's with the exception of Screwface in Marked For Death, eventually he fought some tougher foes. But yeah he'd have his hands full against guys like Jet Li , Norris, Van Damme, etc.... and guys like Jeff Speakman, MJW and Richard Norton in real life would beat him I'm pretty sure
@jonmacistJohn Sorta kinda. A real black belt, as in the kind wear the belt turns black from use and not one from a McDojo, would do exceptional well at bar scuffle. However, at the end of the day, they're still only one person and numbers will win out and it doesn't tend to be a particularly large number.
Shit, a wimpy nonfighter can take out an expert with nothing more than surprise and luck on his side.
Narcissism is one hell of a drug
Also, contrast that with something like John Wick where he pretty much kills everyone around him, but he gets constantly stabbed, shot and punched and you see him bleed, you see him lump, you see him wince in pain and you see him getting tired. And even nameless mooks will sometimes get the drop on him, giving you a sense of dread even when he ends up killing them all.
To be fair, this was in what Caine openly admits was his "take any role that offered a good paycheck" period that let him enjoy better roles later.
It was that thinking that led him to miss picking up his first Oscar because he was filming Jaws-The Revenge. "I've never seen the film, people tell me it's awful. But I have seen the house it paid for, and that's lovely".
David James one of my favorite quotes from any person ever lol
@@davidjames579 but the Oscar was sent to him later ?
@@JoaoGabriel-et4kq Yes. At least he was at the ceremony to collect his second one, in 2000.
@@PowerGlove79 Mine is "I love the Powerglove. It's so Bad".
My grandmother was a big Steven Seagal fan, and she (unfortunately) found both this movie and The Patriot to be her favorites, so I ended up always having the rewind the VHS tapes for her and listening to both movies over and over again.
Oh well, at least On Deadly Ground was a good laugh though...
I'm big Seagal fan too just dispise most of his Shitty DTV films his last great film is Machete and Exit Wounds
But to be honest I'm more of Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Van Damme, Jason Statham, Wesley Snopes, Denzel Washington, Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins, Mario Van Peebles, & Clive Owen fan then a Seagal fan
Segal: "Leggo my ego!"
And I just dated myself with that comment.
That scene in the bar is like he saw the ENDING scene of Blade Runner (my all-time favorite film, btw) and kinda wanted to do the same thing, only without understanding anything about what made it so good. It's like he wanted these lines to be really powerful, but he is not Rutger Hauer, and this is not "tears in rain".
I noticed something about Steven Seagal, he has very oddly named movies that are all three word titles, well most are.
I’d heard that on the majority of his movies, he has a caveat that he has to be able to fit the prefix of ‘Steven Segal IS......’ before the movie’s title! Hilariously it does work for quite a few of them, and I can just imagine him doing that earlier in his career too.😆👌🏻
Steven Segal IS.....
Above the law
Out for justice
Under siege
Etc etc🤔😂😂😂
Yah I agree but I think the only films of Seagal that have Dumb names are his DTV films like Pistol Whipped, Clementine, The Onion Movie, Sheep Impact, Half Past Dead, & Gutshot Straight but aside from those I think alot of his earlier Classics Hard to Kill, On Deadly Ground, Under Siege 1 & 2, Fire Down Below, Glimmer Man, Exit Wounds, About The Law, Out For Justice, & Marked for Death had Cool titles
Steven, "I just read the script ever!'
Somebody, "Really? Who wrote it?"
Steven, "I did!!"
What the hell does oil mining have to do with abnormal children?
This isn't Chernobyl! I'm not sure Seagal knows anything about oil companies.
Or Native Americans...or environmentalism...or human anatomy...
bloodrunsclear Not defending Seagal or this movie. Maybe the chemicals from the processed got mixed together with the water supply.
@@nodinitiative Yeah; water pollution doesn't have to be radioactive to cause in-utero mutations.
Or how to be in good movies
@@christopherb501 Hell just take a look at the areas in Vietnam that the yanks sprayed with Agent Orange. Well over 60 years later people still get sick or give birth to children with birth defects, or why not take a look at the Mercury spill in Minamata, Japan in 1956 not a pretty sight
This is the one film my husband and his friends walked out of about halfway through.
The Irvin Kerschner cameo seems to be because Steven Seagal was the fight choreographer on the Kirschner directed Never Say Never Again. I guess they were friends. Since watched a video interview with two former WB execs who said that Seagal had an experienced director watching over him to ensure things worked (in their words "Don't let him fail"). This was standard practice apparently for first time directors. They don't say who it was, but I think it's a good chance it was Kerschner.
Just watched an interesting interview with two former WB execs who say that Seagal got in so far over his head directing On Deadly Ground that he ended up owing his entire salary back to the studio to pay for un-approved budget over-runs. A deal was struck where Seagal could pay this back by doing a free appearance in a movie of their choice. This was Executive Decision, and luckily for Seagal it was just a cameo, not a full movie for free. Finally explains why he's top billed for that movie then he dies in the first 20 mins.
You know, I liked the scene with the barfly... when it was in Tombstone. Seriously, all that's missing is Forrest asking the guy if he's "gonna stand there and bleed".
Ironically him blowing up the oil rig to stop a rig fire is standard procedure. There was a IMAX film on the Iraq war rig fires.
Also a fun John Wayne film, Hellfighters.
Also Piper Alpha.
I rooted for the bad guys in this movie.
Well it IS Michael Caine we're talking about here...
The "bad guys" had much purer motivations and caused fewer casualties.
In 1971, he would blow Segal with double-barrelled shotgun, entirely in the nude.
@@jakublulek3261 Seagal wouldn't allow it. He'd just whine and cry until he was able to kick Caine's ass. Seagal just refuses to look vulnerable on screen.
@@jakublulek3261 oh Get Carter? Lol nah Seagal would murk him then too
Sheesh. I hate it when the pretty secretaries, or innocent/neutral assistants in general, get just as violently punished as their evil bosses just because they were associated with them.
Pretty decent review, I'm kind of glad you've dropped the whole angry thing though Film Brain, not only does it seem forced (especially in your earliest episodes) but your more professional edge is what sets you apart from most other reviewers.
"My nuts!!!" and "My balls!!!"...if you still have not realized this is a bad movie, that bar fight is where you realize you're watching the beginning of the end for Seagal's so called stardom 😂
There was a rumour that Seagal got his movie career because of a bet between two studio execs. One said with the right publicity, he could make anyone a movie star. The other challenged him, so the guy picked his Aikido Teacher.
Am I the only one who finds Segal's constant appropriation of Native American/Eskimo cultures to glorify his characters really offensive? I'm Australian and if I wrote a story in which my self-insert was named as the Chosen One by some bastardised version of Ngunawal mythology, my Aboriginal friends would kick my ass.
I think Seagal had seen Dances With Wolves.
That's it, I'm saying it: Tommy Wiseau is a better actor than Steven Seagal!
Patrick Kelmer much more importantly, he's the better director aswell
Well, I don't think I'd go THAT far. But yeah, Seagal's pretty bad.
Denise Richards is a better actor, as well as a more convincing man, than Steven Seagal...
And somehow less arrogant and pretentious.
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"snowmobile", a jet ski is for water.
Not everyone knows
@@gracekim25 Hence why I made the comment.
8:29 out of context (prob never gonna watch this movie) Michael Caine was good in this scene. he may be "chewing scenery" but still, i was captivated and kept running that clip back.
I've never seen him go off like that.
11:29 this ecological bullsh*t reminds me of a late 1979 horror film called Prophecy
Steven Seagal is my most hated action star. He is the most boring, uncharismatic action star I think I've ever seen. How this man made himself a career is truly a mystery for the ages. I remember when I used to visit my grandparents in London they would watch a lot Seagal's movies and it drove me mad.
And this is a world were Jaun Claude van Dam and Stallone have careers.
President Kudsi see but Van Damne and Stallone are charismatic and actually try
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 true they are better than Seagal but so is Jake Lloyd
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 Van Damn charismatic? Wow!
Nitrobotti Yes
I have always found Steven Seagal a riot to watch and can enjoy any of his films up until the direct to video stuff started; after then it's hit and miss. I particularly enjoy his outrageous dress sense and the fact that he is clearly oblivious to the fact that he is finger-pointingly hilarious. Who goes into a Seagal film to dissect the plot, writing and performances anyway? As long as there's plenty of shots of him dramatically turning around, obvious stunt doubles, ridiculous hats and jackets, and fighting, I can spend the evening laughing til I pass out. I haven't seen "On Deadly Ground" since I was a kid but, it being the usual Seagal thing, I found it a joy to behold and probably still would, because Seagal, what a tosser xD
Why is Gunnery Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket in this? Guess even he needs to pay the bills.
Hartman, Michael Caine, Dr Cox... _Why?!_
I reckon it's one of JD's daydreams.
what a twist.
Sheesus, Tombstone-era Billy Bob Thornton is in this too? Lol
It should be remembered that Seagal was on a run of FIVE consecutive hit films heading into this one. Actors signed on because they expected the streak to continue. They didn't know this would turn out to be the first commercial misstep of Seagal's career.
Believing in corporate influence on the news isn't crazy
Yeah, but that wasn't his argument. He immediately started to ramble about spirits and compared the whole idea to believing in a supernatural intervention. And they could've at least try before becoming terrorists.
Anyone else burst into laughter the moment the line, "Everything with you is I, I, I. There is no I in team! IT IS T-E-A-M!!! TEAM!"
18:07 - "Our man in DC finds nothing on this guy before 1987."
So his *employers* never vetted him and were aware of that already??
Ahhh!!!! Steven Seagal actually being slim and fit!!!
not related at all, but the German title is way Better: "Auf Brennenden Eis" ( on Burning Ice)
Steven Seagal had and has a massive ego. All of his post Warner projects are direct to DVD . You are brave because this movie was dreadful. Environmental preaching is still ridiculous and is confusing in a confused movie.
That's him in the song too,at the end 😆
wasnt joan chen in judge dredd with sly and armmand and diane lane
i love the fact that u call him DR Cox
Steven Seagal and Michael Caine are quite possibly the least intimidating hero and villain to ever star in an action movie.
Steven Seagal is the least intimidating hero-psycho ever in screens, ever?
21:06, that lady crashes into a gasoline tank......funny!!!!!!!
I wish you would do more Bad Movie Beatdowns, especially on the newest Steven Seagal - Bruce Willis. Hard to believe but yeah, he has became the exact same old geezer who sits in a chair and uses body doubles for action scenes, and appears for 10 minutes in some cheap Z-category action flick so they can poster his name on the cover.
Boy, this comment didn't age well with Willis being diagnosed with a severe mental illness.
Fire down below was my favorite of his movies as it was saved by better actors.
Jet ski? No, lad, that's a Snowmobile.
Funny thing is that Otto is played by Sven-Ole Thorsen who also plays the Chief of Red October, in The Hunt of the Red October
It is available in the UK now on dvd and it is fully uncut
Interesting
I'd pay 1p including P&P, and watch it while drunk, just for laughs.
This movie is cancer..
But good review.!!
The South Park episode "Over-Logging" parodied that ending speech about how we mustn't take the internet for granted and warns about the dangers of over-logging on, or we may lose the internet permanently.
Segals an eco terrorist in this movie.
Whose brilliant idea was it to cast Joan Chen, a Chinese, as a native American?
3:36 Gump lol which actually came out that same year 😆
It’s a Ski-doo, not a jet ski.. Apples and Oranges.. I’ve been watching the Cinema Snob for years and I was aware of you. But I just subscribed too your channel. Keep up the great content
I think Steven segeals physiologist called someone in Hollywood to give him acting career so Steven could vent out his anger.
Not my manly balls... *angry constipated noises*
9:25 - Wow. That IS the corporate weasel from Highlander 2: The Quickening. I can't believe I'd never noticed that all these years.
Yep. John C. McGinley himself. A solid actor but he's been in a lot of crap over the years.
@@justdannyquinn Yeah. You're better off with Scrubs or Wagons East.
Yeah, I never got the ending either. A guy blows up a refinery (in Alaska of all places) and is then asked to speak at the state capital?
After finally watching Scrubs, I now get the Dr. Cox Running Gag.
Way late on the draw, but they prefer to be called Inuit. The fact that the movie refers to them as Eskimos is actually rather offensive, especially with how "nice" and "spiritual" Seagal is supposed to be.
I don't see any comments from them crying so I guess they got bigger fish to fry. You on the other hand....
I love your show! I Ive been watching it for ages on unofficial bmb! I didn't think to look for you under film brain, which was pretty dumb... so anyway..... subscribed! :-)
"Shoot me, you coward" followed by "You haven't got the balls" Wait, you said I'd be a coward if I shot you, and I am if I don't?
😆😂 this was pure comedy
Ah, yes, bad Seagal movies. My guilty pleasure.
I loved the commercial bit with Caine. It was one of my favorite parts of the movie😂😂
I don't get why Matthew hates On Deadly Ground it's one of Seagal's better action films better then is DTV films my favorite Seagal films On Deadly Ground, Hard To Kill, Out for Justice, Above the Law, Marked for Death, Fire Down Below, Glimmer Man, Machete, Exit Wounds, and The Under Siege films
I’m guessing film brain cut out a 20 years joke or something
how come michael caine never played james bond
17:04 - Wait, wasn't that the girl who earlier said to Dr. Cox that she will watch him as he dies or something? Sounded pretty pro-violence to me.
Fun fact: Seagal was nominated for an Oscar for the slap fight scene in this movie.
It was the only nominee though.
@@davidjames579 True, and he still didn't win!
Yes. It was the Oscar for the best actor in a slap fight scene, and he still lost.
Stephen Seagal: proof positive that a terrible attitude and insufferable ego will not stop a mediocre white man from failing upward.
Also sadly, while I understand Brian Flim's point about the heavy-handedness, it's been strange to see his politics apparently align completely away from his supposed "pet project" AND the reveal that yeah: Oil companies pretty much ARE this negligently evil over the last 11 years since this came out!
I jsut discovered your channel. I like it and have subscribed.
what is this GREAT SONG IN THE END???!
I didn't remember off-hand, but it turns out to be "Don't You Cry" by Steven Seagal himself.
I had to point out something (BTW this is one of my top so bad it's good movies) to kill the coolness of that exploding oil rig behind Mr. Seagal there is a funny shot of him standing next to a 2x4 on fire that he lights his cigar with it looks so cheap and unbelievable it'll make you laugh.
Have you done under siege 2?
These are still so much fun to watch.
20:34 MY EYES!!!!!!!
*MY EYES!!!!!*
19:30 wouldn't the shockwave break the glass?
This is one of the more silly Segal movies,his ego grew and his movies became really bad.
There's a "me" in team.
Um no
It would have been even sillier of a line if Dr. Cox said, "There is no 'i' in 'team!' It is 't-e-y-m'!"
MacGruder: Fuck me!? Fuck you!!!! Them dialogues suck!
4:08 Why do I have the feeling he said something a bit like that when he met Putin.
My favorites of his were Marked For Death, Hard To Kill, Under Siege 1 and 2, and The Glimmer Man. Out For Justice and Above The Law were good too though. This was his 1st movie that was kind of a let down. 2nd half was good but the 1st half was some bullshit lol
Here very late but "Alaska is a third world country," isn't that wildly inaccurate, it just really should be 'Native land is a third world country.' It's not super implausible to me that an oil company could deploy mercenaries openly in rural Alaska with no blowback, but it's not really *just* because it's Alaska. I'd have thought with how much Seagal drapes himself in Indigenous culture, that theme might have been tackled better here.
It's called a snowmobile, not a jet ski.
Good review mats thanks!
Yeah! Concerning what appears at 20:30, unfortunately, there are such awful things that can't be unseen. [Ugh!]
super entertaining review, top stuff
13:59 ngl doesn’t feel the same without the deep echo XD
Marked for death is my favorite
Michael Caine is a great actor, but dear God he's been in some awful shit.
12:44
The Guardians of the Dark Crystal!
Huhmmmmn~
20:54, Adam Taurus in a nutshell
What?
Dude All Seagal movies rule! He’s such a bad ass 🤘
I just know Steven seagal ain't nothing to play with
My favourite is HARD TO KIILLL!!...
He's a random man Mr. Seagal, he spent time as a Sheriff somewhere in the Southern states, restaurant owner, actor, what'll he do next?
I think he was a volunteer sheriff in Jefferson Parrish, Louisiana near New Orleans.
Aah, I wonder how long he did that or if he's still Sheriffing to this day
@@faze_buendia9514 Allegedly, he's now in Doña Ana County, New Mexico as a reserve sheriff.
FB i’m from the future don’t cut off your hair, you begin to look like Doug!
This was a vanity production parading as a social statement. For that, it's not even a good movie.
6:00 Is that real?
Yep, from The Onion Movie.
@@FilmBrain Huh. Hollywood sure had a way of ensuring you didn't stay angry forever back then.
Well, that fake trailer is the only vaguely remembered part of a pretty terrible film.
@@FilmBrain But you remembered it, so it left an impression. It did for me just now. 🤣
1:59
An environmentally-aware action movie 🤣🤣🤣
On deadly ground that movie was like boring
..a..a..a..ACTUALLY I LIKED THIS MOVIE🤣😬