Movie Reviews

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

Director:

Geoff Murphy

Starring:

Steven Seagal

Eric Bogosian

Everett McGill

Katherine Heigl

Plot:

Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite.

Review:

This movie too starts out with boobs. Pixilated boobs, but boobs none the less. It’s actually kind of disgusting how it’s done. Apparently a dancer jumping out of a cake topless is fine to me, but when they use a satellite to peep on a sun bather I take offense. Several men are weak pigs in this movie.

Anyway, the bad guy, Eric Bogosian, plays a great crazy bad guy.

Someone should not have told Seagal he could act because he can’t and anytime he tries it’s bad.

Graphics are bad, which is understandable considering the year the movie was made, but there are so many of them it’s ridiculous.

Competent bad guys are great, especially when the good guys are as well.

My husband freakin loved this movie, I did not.

2/5

Arq (2016)

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Arq (2016)

Director:

Tony Elliot

Starring:

Robbie Amell

Rachael Taylor

Shaun Benson

Plot:

Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.

Review:

You’re pretty much thrown into the middle of a world you know nothing about following people you know nothing about. If you eventually learned more than these people are supposedly bad and these guys maybe not, the movie might have been more compelling. Instead I didn’t really care about anything or anyone.

I love repeat episodes and movies, but this was lacking and not something I would recommend.

2/5

Under Siege (1992)


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Under Siege (1992)

Director:

Andrew Davis

Starring:

Steven Seagal

Tommy Lee Jones

Gary Busey

Plot:

A former S.E.A.L., now cook, is the only person who can stop a gang of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. Navy battleship.

Review:

I am not a Steven Seagal fan, but my husband likes some of his movies, so I end up watching them as well.

 As far as action movies go this one wasn’t bad. I thought the knife fight looked like a slap fight, but I’ve been informed that’s how it’s supposed to look. Also, I’m very grateful that when Seagal was doing his “kung fu” the camera was focused so close you didn’t see much.

Tommy Lee Jones was fun to see as such a crazy bad guy.

Bouillabaisse.

I feel incredibly sorry for Erika Eleniak and I hope that she got a better boob job later in life. Seriously, it was like looking at a plastic Barbie doll. It was sad. Plus her whole character was just a trophy for Seagal to kiss at the end.

The movie was Die Hard on a boat, only not really. Seagal was a SEAL that got demoted for punching some dude. The big guys sending help weren’t idiots and were actually competent, except the CIA. The bad guys were after money though.

This movie did not really paint the Navy in a good light since just a handful of terrorists took down an entire battleship. Overall, though, the movie was alright.

3/5

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

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Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Director:

Marc Lawrence

Starring:

Sandra Bullock

Hugh Grant

Alicia Witt

Plot:

A lawyer decides that she’s used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.

Review:

Sometimes you just feel like watching a romantic comedy and this certainly fits the bill. I love Sandra Bullock. Hugh Grant isn’t so bad himself. This movie ticks all the boxes. Bullock’s character is smart and funny and just the right amount of vulnerable. Grant is an amusing man child that knows when to be an adult.

There’s nothing ground breaking here, but it’s comforting and I like it.

4/5

Sabrina (1995)

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Sabrina (1995)

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Starring:

Harrison Ford

Julia Ormond

Greg Kinnear

Plot:

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.

Review:

Harrison Ford plays Humphrey Bogarts character perfectly. Neither man is any good at romance and it’s actually kind of funny to watch them try.

I like this version more, I think, than the original. Mainly because she doesn’t try and kill herself over a boy. She does mope and generally act like a love sick cow, but she matures and seems to recognize that she’s being ridiculous.

I do not agree with the plot synopsis that she was an ugly duckling, cause she wasn’t. It was the 90s, that’s how teenagers dressed.

Good movie, I like the story, and I like that the side characters have a little bit more going on in this one.

4/5