Katherine Heigl Movie:

		List Price: $28.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 5137 Released: September 2, 2008
		Our Price: $8.00
		Used Price: $7.44
		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Bluray Disc

Description of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory [Blu-ray]:
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 computerized 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

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory [Blu-ray] Reviews:
chance favors the prepared mind . . . the further adventures of Casey Ryback
2009-12-08 - Reprising his role as ex-navy SEAL Casey Ryback, Steven Seagal stars in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). While the original Under Siege took place on the battleship USS Missouri, the setting this time is on a train, the Grand Continental, where Ryback is travelling with his niece Sarah (Katherine Heigl), from Denver to Los Angeles. Winding through the Colorado mountains, terrorists take over the train, led by Travis Drane (Eric Bogosian) a computer whiz, with a superiority complex, mixed with a streak of drama queen, who developed a top secret satellite weapon called Grazer One, for the US government. After securing some passwords from a pair of officers aboard the train, Drane takes control of the satellite, and offers its destructive services for sale to the highest bidder, while planning the destruction of the Pentagon.

Ruthless Marcus Penn (Everett McGill) commands the mercenaries, who's numbers start to diminish as an undiscovered Ryback begins to strike. When eventually discovered, Ryback winds up clinging to the side of a cliff. It takes some daring moves, but the resourceful Ryback is soon back aboard the train. In general, the stunts and action sequences are executed pretty well, though realism and logic are not critical factors. A shootout in a passenger car instigated by Ryback, is pure madness. A significant effort was put into special effects. Although some of the effects are dated, most hold up pretty well, including the finale, a head on collision between two trains on a bridge.

Morris Chestnut plays a porter pressed into doing more than just handling luggage. Chestnut and Seagal, would later team up in Half Past Dead (2002). Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy) does pretty well, in an early film appearance. Eric Bogosian (Law and Order: Criminal Intent), does a serviceable job, as your typical irritating, egomaniacal villain. More a convenience then a necessity, Nick Mancuso as Tom Breaker, and Andy Romano as Admiral Bates, reprise their roles from Under Siege.

While lacking the tension and 'realism' of the original, Under Siege 2 is still a very passable action adventure. The cast is not as strong, and the story not as solid, but Casey Ryback is a fairly likeable character, that only occasionally comes across as a jerk. Seagal displays the kind of physical prowess, largely absent from his more recent efforts. It is somewhat surprising that he has not yet resurrected the character for another sequel, but who knows the future may bring.

Almost . . .
2009-11-12 - This is one of those "in the mood" flics. You just have to be in the mood for a "no-brainer". The action is typical Segal, and the premise stretches things, many times more than a bit. There are several excellent scenery shots which almost make the Blu-ray format worth it. Other than the satellite gimmick, one can almost believe the rest of the plot. The cast, for the most part, turn in a professional job. Seagal almost smiles enough that you can be almost sure they don't have a mannequin doing the role. Not a bad piece of mental candy, if the price is right.

"Nobody Beats Me In The Kitchen." Hell Of A High-Speed Thriller From Start To Finish. Katherine Heigl Is HOT, HOT, HOT.
2009-07-12 - Steven Seagal plays Casey F---ing Ryback once again in this (literally) explosive and high-octane, high-speed thriller loaded with jaw-dropping action sequences and very cool eye candy (I'm talkin' girls now). Katherine Hiegl is drop-dead gorgeous. Pity she didn't get naked. The sex scene should have been longer. Anyway, Eric Bogosian (yea, that creepy dude who's now on "Law Ander Order: Criminal Intent") is the villain in this sequel. Hell, I would have preferred someone like Denzel Washington or an A-list actor as the baddie. But that probably would have upstaged Seagal, who's the focus of the movie. I give this sequel five stars because of Ms. Hiegl, the rest of the eye candy and the action sequences. This movie had something the first movie (which I didn't much care for) should have had: comic relief. The movie should have been rated PG-13 for some violence and mild language. "Nobody Beats Me In The Kitchen." All Aboard.

ships and trains with a particle beam in orbit
2009-06-17 - For the first time the black porter calls Aikido jujitsu in this movie.
As these martial arts super hero movies go this one is pretty good, but the moving around outside of these streamlined aluminum cars by Seagal isn't very believable for me.
For me, Seagal seems to embody the bully in martial arts:
the kind that the Karate Kid is supposed to be not like.
You don't find him fighting a real karate or kung fu type
as far as I remember in any of his films.
That actually might be interesting if staged right.
Just another hero saves world film...
I liked the first one better.

Average fare
2009-04-10 - This is an entertaining sequel to Under Seige, which is a non-stop action thrill ride. Seagal is still in good shape, unlike in his recent films, and still looks the part as the ex-Navy seal who is accidently on a train that terrorists take over. So all good so far, but thats about it...

Where the movie falls down compared to the first film is the lack of a stand-out actor. Tommy Lee-Jones and Gary Busey may not be A list stars like Matt Damon and Tom Cruise but you can bank on them to deliver fine performances, which they did in the first film. This film doesn't have an equivalent.

I'm happy to accept this as a piece of comic strip fluff, but I do have a problem with films where believeability is stretched beyond the limit. Occassionally the film had some lighter moments, but I never got the impression that this film took itself anything other than entirely seriously.

Still I didn't switch it off, and its always worth watching Seagal do his martial arts stuff. Full credit there, that he IS very good at. Buy if cheap.