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Actors: Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Erika Eleniak
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Under Siege |
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On a Navy ship a group of terrorists take over the ship and kill nearly everyone on board. However, there is one person that is still on board. He is a cook, but an ex-navy seal. Now he must use all of his resources to defeat the terrorists and stop the terrorists from sending off nukes.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Ex Navy SEAL Casey Ryback is working as cook on a warship taken over by terrorists, led by an insane ex military guy and the ships corrupt Lieutenant. Casey meets "Miss July" Jordan Tate, and they gradually fall in love as they fight to take back the ship before its deadly nuclear cargo can be transported onto the terrorists submarine.
--Rachel Patterson, Resident Scholar
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The USS Missori is under siege and only one man can save the day, unforgently for the terrorists his name is Casey Rybeck and is an ex-everything in the book. Can Casey Rybeck save the day? Or do the Terrorists win?
--Knut Ragnar H. Bakke, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Under Siege |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 56.7%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Navy
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- nukes
The terrorist enemy is...
- terrorist group
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- cook
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Water?
Yes
Water:
- warship
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 (some)
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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