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| Under Siege 2: Dark Territory [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![Under Siege 2: Dark Territory [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EQ3ZWS7YL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Geoff Murphy
Actors: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Everett Mcgill, Katherine Heigl, Morris Chestnut
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: £3.77
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 59214
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 99 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.9 x 0.6
MPN: WARD13665D
ISBN: 0790733684
UPC: 085391366522
EAN: 9780790733685
ASIN: 6304712898
Release Date: December 17, 1997
Theatrical Release Date: July 14, 1995
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The success ofUnder Siege made a sequel mandatory according to Hollywood's rules of maximum revenue, and as sequels go, this one's not half bad. Steven Seagal returns as former Navy SEAL and skilled chef Casey Ryback, who's trying to spend quality time with his niece on a cross-country train trip. But as luck and action-movie formulas would have it, the train has been hijacked by a demented genius (Eric Bogosian) who is using the train as a moving platform to seize computerised control of a top-secret U.S. satellite that is capable of causing earthquakes from space. Seagal has to stop the train or the villain (whichever comes first), and the action is fast and furious on its way to a high-speed climax. He's not as wacky as Tommy Lee Jones in the first Under Siege, but Bogosian has got a delirious quality that serves the comic-book plot, and action fans get more than their fill of dazzling stunts and special effects. --Jeff Shannon
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 cut to shreds October 11, 2008
This is a great action film which has been butchered by the bbfc, seriously if i want to watch a cut film il specify this when i look for it otherwise the bbfc should keep their grubby mits off our beloved action films, i wont go into whats cut as someone has already done this.
i suggest a boycott of all old school region 2 dvd action films until the bbfc gets the message that cutting all of our films will no longer be tolerated
 Seagal's best and one hell of an exciting ride August 23, 2008
Since 2001 Seagal has been quite happy to let his film career crash and burn while sings the blues and does all his strange little things in his personal life (have you ever tasted his wine or his energy drink?). But there was a time in the 90s when his name guaranteed you an hour and a half of broken bones, severed limbs, bad guys in agonizing pain and a showdown with a head villain who stands no chance against the awesome hurricane force that is Steven Seagal.
I never really like the first Under Siege [Blu-ray]. I found it to be too low key and slow and after enjoying such brain-free fare as Marked for Death and Hard to Kill in my youth I had come to expect a tougher movie than the what we were given (though the tyrannical BBFC cut the film to shreds and denied me what I wanted to see). I was dismayed at the lousy 15-rating and not even Erika Eleniak's boobs could cheer me up (she's blonde-not my thing).
Flash forward to July 1995 and the awesome poster for Under Siege 2 started showing up in cinema lobbies. It featured the impassive one clinging to the side of a burning train hurtling through the countryside and featured, quite frankly, the best subtitle of any sequel ever 'Dark Territory'. This time it was rated 18 which meant I could look forward to all the blood and gore that the first Under Siege lacked. Obviously I couldn't see this film in the cinema, being only 15 and all, so I had to wait until the video came out in early 1996. By that point the BBFC (those people from the dark-ages again) had censored every last bit of red stuff to the point where it could be shown on the friggin' Disney Channel if it weren't for the swearing.
I would have to wait until 1999, when I bought the uncut US version on DVD, to see the film in it's entirety. And when I did it was like watching a brand new movie.
Casey Ryback, now the head chef of the Mile High Cafe in Denver, had retired from the Navy but still works for the government doing the odd secret mission here and there. When his brother is killed in a plane crash he takes his niece Sarah (the lurvley Katherine Hiegl) on a trip to LA on the Grand Continental, but that particular train just so happens to be hijacked by crazed computer genius Travis Dane and his band of menacing mercenaries featuring dead-eyed Everett McGill and the sleazy Peter Greene. He has a beef with the government and is only too happy to use his skills to blow the Pentagon off the face of the Earth and collect a nice paycheck from the Saudis.
Luckily for Ryback, he was momentarily absent when the hostages were rounded up as he nipped into the kitchen to bake a cake. He teams up with naive porter Bobby Zachs (Morris Chestnut, bringing life to an otherwise ordinary sidekick role) and begins his skulking, lurking mission through the shadows and voids of the train to pull the brake and free the hostages. Do these nasty people really think that they stand a chance against Ryback's awesome power and apparent invincibility? Sit back and watch them get annihilated with a variety of improvised melee weapons and other gruesome tools.
The train is a better setting than the boat. This time instead of a plain black backdrop we've got lots of pretty scenery and the constant forward motion of the loco gives the movie a nice momentum. Basil Poledouris' score soars miles above Gary Chang's bland notes of the first one and it honestly ends up being one of the best scores ever and a perfect example of how action music ought to be. And don't worry about this one being slow as the first. Under Siege 2 is edited so quickly that coherence is almost lost. You have to pay quick attention and perhaps watch the film a few times just to catch everything.
The comic-book nature of the plot, the cliffhanger feel of the ever-escalating mayhem and cartoonish villains might normally result in a campy movie but Under Siege 2 is as hardcore and sadistic and mean-spirited as the come. That's probably the reason the BBFC chose to cut it, claiming that it featured 'gloating and pervasive violence'. Well, I never found it to be that evil, just entertaining. Which is why I don't like narrow-minded institutions telling me what I can and cannot watch.
No one could possibly have a bad time watching this film (unless it's the UK version) and if you've had enough of Shane Meadows doing pretentious black and white stuff or Keira Knightely in a frock to last you a lifetime then the brainless and breathtaking action of Under Siege 2 is just what you need.
The Blu Ray features a 1.85:1 1080p transfer that is a vast improvement on the DVD. The sky is bluer the explosions are more colorful and the depth of the photography has a lot more clarity. Unfortunately Warner have only given us a regular Dolby Digital soundtrack, which is strange since they gave Eraser [Blu-ray] [1996] [US Import], The Gauntlet [Blu-ray] [1977] [US Import] and Outbreak [Blu-ray] [1995] [US Import] brand new Dolby TrueHD remasters. A real shame, but the sound design of the film is lively enough to satisfy anyway. Only a bunch of trailers are included as extras.
Quality thriller & knuckle fest August 15, 2008
Great stuff - this is soooo entertaining!
Doomsday weapons, nutty villains, brutal terrorists, a snotty niece and tons of quality violence and explosions. It even includes some recipes. What more do you want?
TERRIFIC ACTION FILM! June 16, 2008
Truely the last of the EXCELLENT Seagal films. 5 stars for the FILM despite being cut up in the UK Version (how about re-submitting it - could pass uncut today in regard to several Chainsaw Massacres and Sawings and so on). Referred to as "Die Hard on a train" I liked this better than the Bruce Willis film. At the end Seagal gets to display his Aikido skills - I must agree, him walking out of that fight with no bruises is or injuries is not realistic at all. Here the makers could have copied a little more from "Die Hard" - Bruce Willis ALWAYS looks like the wrath of God at the end - but otherwise highly entertaining!
 Big Steve gets a beat down from the BBFC. December 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Here we are again movie fans. A hardcore violent action film with all the hardcore violence removed just for UK audiences. Some ***SPOILERS*** follow (but let's be honest. This is a Steven Seagal film, so you know what happens.)
Here's roughly what's missing:
***Spoilers***
*Ryback slashing a guys wrist with a knife.
*We don't see the close up of the henchman that Ryback kicks off the train roof being dragged along for a while before going completely under the front.
*The part when Ryback uses a makeshift bomb - we don't see the burning mercenary bump into another guy and set him on fire aswell. They stagger around for quite a few seconds before Penn decides to shoot one of them rather than use a fire extinguisher.
*Ryback kicking the guy shot by the flare gun out of the train door.
*Ryback breaking both of the next mercenary's wrists has been cut out.
*On the cliff-face when Ryback is hanging on to the rope, we don't see him smash the guy's face into the rock.
*When mercenary (Peter Greene) is about to shoot the porter and Ryback intervenes, we don't his head being forced back so his neck breaks.
*The shot of the knife sticking out of the mercenary's neck when Ryback is in the hostage carriage should be longer.
*When the mercenary challenges Penn and says "I say it's time to cut and run" the brutal death that follows is missing some shots.
*Ryback breaks another mercenary's arm in a fight after he discovers the grenade set to go off in the corridor.
*UK version is missing the close up shots of the knives Ryback and Penn use before they fight.
*We also don't get the sound effect of Penn having his neck broken.
*The reason Dane falls from the helicopter is that Ryback closes the door, severing all of Dane's fingers. This is completely missing in the UK print of the movie.
***End Of Spoilers***
All in all, a total of 2 mins is missing from this DVD. It is available uncut on region 1, so do yourself a favour and get a multi-region player. A Multi-region is a worthwhile investment if you're an action movie fan since nearly all action films in this country are cut at the behest of the BBFC (True Lies, Eraser, Commando, Cliffhanger, Tango & Cash, Under Siege, Marked For Death, On Deadly Ground, Nico, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 4, Die Hard with A Vengeance....all cut in the UK, and the list goes on.)
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