Rent Under Siege (1992)
3.3 of 5 from 130 ratings
1h 38min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- When the USS Missouri welcomes aboard entertainers for the battleship's last voyage, the visitors throw a party. A war party. Led by a rogue CIA operative (Tommy Lee Jones) and a turncoat officer (Gary Busey), they're killer-elite commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew, except 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 decorated combat operative Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal). All hands on deck, action fans!
- Actors:
- Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones, Damian Chapa, Troy Evans, David McKnight, Lee Hinton, Patrick O'Neal, Glenn Morshower, Leo Alexander, John Rottger, Brad Rea, Michael Welden, Bernie Casey, Rickey Pierre, Raymond Cruz, Duane Davis, Erika Eleniak, Colm Meaney, Eddie Bo Smith Jr.
- Directors:
- Andrew Davis
- Producers:
- Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther, Steven Seagal, Joel Chernoff
- Writers:
- JF Lawton
- Others:
- John Leveque, Bruce Stambler, Under Siege
- Aka:
- Dreadnought / Last to Surrender
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Ships in Film: From Sailing to , A Brief History of Screen Cuisine, All the Twos: 1972-2012, Top 10 Films About Trains: Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 11/09/2017
- Run Time:
- 102 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, English, French
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Theatrical Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 05/01/2026
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Atmos, English Stereo
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary with director Andrew Davis and writer J.F. Lawton
- I'm on a Boat (With a Bomb), a newly filmed interview with director Andrew Davis
- One of the Guys, a newly filmed interview with actor Erika Eleniak
- A Tight Ship, a newly filmed interview with actor Damian Chapa
- The Introvision Files, a newly filmed interview with visual effects supervisor William Mesa
- Trailer
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Reviews (2) of Under Siege
A very, very silly story - but quite enjoyable of its kind - Under Siege review by RP
It's a Steven Seagal film, so you know what to expect - ponytail, general mayhem, martial arts, silly plot, weak script, straight to DVD. But no, while this is no Oscar winner, it is a cut above the rest - and he hasn't got a ponytail.
It is of course a very, very silly story: baddies disguised as a rock band and led by an over-the-top Tommy Lee Jones take over a battleship and steal its cruise missiles to sell to the highest bidder. Unfortunately for them, the cook turns out to be Steven Seagal, a Navy SEAL serving out his time in a lowly job after striking an officer. He then retakes the ship single handedly (well, with some minor help from a Playboy Playmate, who also gets to show a bit of bare chest), fires the main 16" naval guns, sinks a North Korean submarine and defeats all baddies. I told you it was silly :)
Ignore the general silliness and it's quite enjoyable of its kind, so I'll give it 3/5 stars.
[Aside: the battleship is named as the USS Missouri, the last US battleship built. The surrender of Japan in World War II was signed on board and it was used for bombardment in the first Gulf War in 1991. It was finally decommissioned in 1992 and 'Under Siege' is supposedly set on its final voyage home. In fact, most of the battleship scenes were filmed on the USS Alabama which is a museum ship moored off the city of Mobile, AL]
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Routine Action Film - Good Fun - Under Siege review by GI
Basically Die hard on a ship with Steven Seagal in arguably his best film. The film benefits from solid direction and two charismatic villains played by Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey. It is however a routine action film with the usual gutsy fight scenes and hampered by the wooden Seagal and the decision to have a love interest thrown into the mix. The story is simple really. A US Navy ship is taken over by a group of ex-militarty mercenaries led by a disaffected CIA agent. They plan to steal the missiles and sell them to the highest bidder. They didn't bank on the ship's cook being a highly trained Navy Seal. So in short this is another of those films where a humble man has a special set of skills and has to use them again to save the day. Entertaining but very clichéd when watched today. Fun though if you've never seen it.
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