Steven Seagal directs himself, Michael Caine and Joan Chen as a ponytailed uber-human who takes on a corrupt, polluting oil magnate while engaging with the Inuit community, both local and on the spirit plane, who sold off their drilling rights to the evil, bad badman. 

I went to the shithole two screen fleapit in West Ealing to watch this as a kid. It was shit then and it is shit now. “Shit!… Shit, you say Bobby… then why the fuck watch it again?” We had an utterly deserted pub and this was all that was on ITV4+1 between the dead period and last orders. The fights are perfunctory, the spiritual moments and Seagal’s ten minute speech about the environment at the end are laughably boring. He has just blown up an oil rig, a terrorist action, thus polluting the environment far more than any shonky commerce could… jog on, mate… you should be in fucking handcuffs. Even if the sentiment is in the right place the execution is meathead logic. Warner Bros greenlit this in a deal so he would star in Under Seige 2. I doubt it was worth the ultimate hassle. Seagal also seemingly was paid in jackets. Every scene he sports a new one… some excessively tasseled, some with ethnographic detailing… all made from the hide of a dead animal. Pretty impressive wardrobe changes for a guy on the run in the Alaskan wilderness. Michael Caine spits through his teeth in every scene. This was the grubbiest period of his long career. All the dirty, evil oil his megalomaniac has naughtily pumped up seems to have been used to make the slick black wig on his head. The only reason this doesn’t get a damning 1 score is this swathe of dialogue from R. Lee Emery; “He’s the kind of guy that would drink a gallon of gasoline so he could piss in your campfire! You could drop this guy off at the Arctic Circle wearing a pair of bikini underwear, without his toothbrush, and tomorrow afternoon he’s going to show up at your pool side with a million dollar smile and fist full of pesos. This guy’s a professional, you got me?” Amazing… and I’m gonna bet completely improvised by the former United States Marine Corps staff sergeant.

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