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Under Siege is a 1992 action film in the Die Hard
mould.

Plot

A band of terrorists, aided by a former CIA agent, board a nuclear-weapon armed American battleship (the USS Missouri), in the guise of a group of musicians hired for a surprise party, and seize control of the ship. They plan to remove the weapons and sell them on the black market. They kill several of the officers, including the Captain, and imprison the whole ship's company below decks. The Executive Officer, secretly in league with them, assumes command.

But the only thing in their way is a ship's cook Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal), who in fact just happens to really be a Chief Petty Officer and former Navy SEAL with special-weapons, aikido and hand-to-hand combat training.

Although under arrest for insubordination, Ryback contrives to escape, and with the assistance of a young dancer (who came aboard with the terrorists but fell asleep), he assembles a special SEAL magnophone and contacts Naval Headquarters in Washington. He releases some of the imprisoned sailors and proceeds to take back control of the ship, killing most of the terrorists in the process.

Production and distribution

Based on an original screenplay by J. F. Lawton, Under Siege was rated 'R' ('Restricted') by the U.S. MPAA. It stars Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Andy Romano, Dale Dye, Patrick O'Neal and Erika Eleniak and was directed by Andrew Davis. It was followed by a sequel, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
.

Trivia

Based on the million-dollar spec script Dreadnaught by J.F. Lawton
, screenwriter of Pretty Woman
.
Though it was set aboard USS Missouri, none of the film was actually filmed there. Instead it was mostly filmed aboard USS Alabama, at the time already a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama.
The film makes extensive use of the IntroVision process, a variation of front projection that allows realistic three-dimensional interaction of foreground characters with projected backgrounds without the heavy cost of traditional bluescreen effects. The technique was also used in the films Outland, Megaforce
, Army of Darkness
and Andrew Davis' The Fugitive.
The UK release was edited for violence to get a more commercial 15 certificate. Thirty seconds were removed from the film, chiefly from the workshop fight and a shot of Seagal ripping out a man's throat.

Goofs

Though Seagal plays a Navy chief petty officer, he is wearing the uniform of a flag officer in the movie's poster. (The gold shoulder boards are barely visible.) Curiously, in a scene at the end of the movie he is wearing the correct uniform for his character: an identical tunic with CPO insignia pinned onto the choker collar instead of the shoulder boards.

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