Format:VHS
Studio:Warner Brothers
Date:1992
Catch Phrase:"Die Hard on a battleship."


What the box says: It's not a job. It's an adventure! Steven Segal comes aboard and comes on strong, combining humor and heroics in a fireball of a movie. The excitement starts when the USS Missouri welcomes aboard the musicians and caterers set to provide entertainment during the famed battleship's last voyage. The visitors throw a party, all right. A war party. Led by a rogue CIA operative (JFK's Tommy Lee Jones) and a turncoat officer (Lethal Weapon's Gary Busey), they're really killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew. Except for one man. "I'm just a cook," that man says. But he's a cook with a recipe for action. He's ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative Casey Ryback (Seagal). Relying on his slambang martial-arts skills and equipped with enough hardware to single handedly wage World War III, Ryback turns the Missouri's deck and below-deck areas into guerrilla combat zones. All hands ready, action fans!


What I say about the box: It says pretty much everything necessary.


My review:This is probably one of Segal's best movies. It is suspenseful and has a MacGyver improvisation feel to it. Sure it is a lot more violent than a MacGyver episode, but it has Segal being creative in dealing with his situation, which is fun to watch. Segal has a really amusing personality in this movie. He has a trouble maker attitude, loves to cook, and has a southern accent. On the other hand, he is really proficient at "self defense" and that is what we see him do for most of the movie. Overall the story is pretty strong and the "bad guy" has reasons for what he does in the movie. It doesn't justify the takeover of a ship, so Segal does what he does best to retake it.

In Summary, good action movie with a creative aspect. Athough, it does have some unnecessary scenes in the movie and can be graphic at times.