America’s favorite bone-breaking, neck-snapping chef is off the boat, on vacation and taking his maladjusted teen niece (Katherine Heigl… what?) cross country by rail. The film’s powerfully concise explanation: “would you fly if your parents just died in a plane crash?” The secret sleeper in the pantheon of Seagal classics, Under Siege 2 proves the action superstar is only as good as the villains he’s up against. And our ponytailed hero isn’t just up against your average group of computer hacking hijackers; Seagal goes fist to fist with a wild assortment of seemingly disparate character actors: monologuist Eric Bogosian, Twin Peak’s Everett McGill, Pulp Fiction’s Peter Greene, Breaking Bad’s Jonathan Banks and a host of disposable mercenaries and buff badasses. Yep, the explosive Casey Ryback saga charges ahead like an unstoppable, action-packed locomotive of non-stop entertainment!
