I used to have a real thing about watching Steven Seagal movies, but there's really nothing wrong with them. They're easy to watch, and I have actually enjoyed a couple. He's never going to be the best actor, as he plays the same character, with the same facial expression in every movie. But hey, he has the moves.



There's not much storyline considering. A severely black haired Michael Caine, playing Michael Jennings, (who does actually look like he covered his head with oil), is the bad guy of the movie, who wants to build an oil rig, complete with dodgy parts, in Alaska, before the ground reverts back to the Eskimos. Pretty blah. Forrest (Seagal) interferes, and promptly gets blown up. But the story isn't over. He gets rescued by the Eskimos, and goes on a one-man rampage against Jennings.



From here the film descends into spiritual and environmental nonsense - I'm all for attempting to save the planet, but this is nonsense. Most of the dialogue sounds hokey, and Billy Bob Thornton is nowhere to be seen in this movie. (Seriously, his name is in the credits, but I cannot see him!) There's a big bar brawl, where Forrest makes a big man cry (the bad guy from Beethoven 2), and an old guy features quite a bit, in a painful sequence. He's hiding a very important disc don't you know.



There's nothing we haven't seen in any other Seagal movie. Unfortunately, this also has Seagal's name as director, and that's a big mistake. Occasionally (notice I said occasionally) actors think they can direct. Sometimes they can. In Seagal's case, he has no idea how to link scenes together, and apparently, his god awful speech at the end was supposed to last forever. And then some! No thank you.



On Deadly Ground is a little bit too much on the environmental side, with not enough ideas gone into the script or the actors. Michael Caine? Well wrong in this role. So wrong. Steven Seagal? He's not bad as an actor, he's never going to be great, but his head exploded and he thought he could direct, and get the world to change what they started years before. Stick to the beating up. Do what you do best.