A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.
- Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations
Sven-Ole Thorsen
- Otto
- (as Swen-Ole Thorsen)
- Director
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- TriviaProducer and director Steven Seagal filmed almost 40 minutes of footage for the environmental message at the end of this movie, and planned to use it all in the final cut. After pressure from Warner Brothers and a disastrous preview screening, where audience members booed, laughed, and made obscene gestures for the entire sequence, Seagal cut the final scene down to about seven minutes.
- GoofsAfter Taft runs MacGruder into the helicopter's tail rotor, Liles drives by and sees the body, which doesn't appear to have suffered a grave head injury. MacGruder is lying on his stomach with his hands over his head and no blood visible.
- Quotes
Michael Jennings: [seeing all his workers fleeing for their lives] You're a bunch of GUTLESS PRICKS! ALL OF YOU!
Michael Jennings: [seeing a worker close to him running away] You! Come help me!
Oil worker: FUCK YOU!
Michael Jennings: You yellow BASTARD!
- Crazy creditsThe first half of the end credits run over images of Alaska and its various wildlife, until we see Forrest Taft & Masu in a canoe, with Taft pointing out to Masu, a crow in front of them circling over the water (supposedly meant to be Silook in another form)
- Alternate versionsGerman TV and Retail-Video/DVD Versions are cut to reduce violence. The uncut Version is available on Rental-Video and DVD.
- ConnectionsEdited from Out for Justice (1991)
Featured review
Better than its critics suggest
Well, as the IMdB reviews show, not everyone is a fan of this film. It's true that the philosophising and Eskimo mystique in the mid-section of the film do slow it down. It is also true that the closing environmental speech may be a tad heavy-handed. Yet I find it refreshing to see a large-budget action movie that actually tries to be about something. To his credit, Seagal's films have generally struck an anti-Establishment tone, in contrast to the complacent Republicanism of Schwarzenegger. Of course, having said all this, the tactics of Seagal's hero Forrest Taft, in blowing up large quantities of Alaska, are not perhaps what Greenpeace would recommend! As to the qualities of the film, there are some strong, savage action scenes, a stylish if over-the-top villain in Michael Caine, and wonderful photography. After all those "Die Hard"/"Under Siege" efforts, with characters running around claustrophobic buildings in semi-darkness, the panoramic views of Alaska make a nice change. Another good score by Basil Poledouris.
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- Jan 30, 2000
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- Also known as
- Rainbow Warrior
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- Budget
- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $38,590,458
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,679,573
- Feb 21, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $38,590,458
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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