With Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill, Katherine Heigl. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite. When I saw this the first time I liked it but didn't like it as much as the original. Review of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory 6 / 10. But the bad guys overlook one man - the cook - who turns into a one-man army and fights back. It’s struggling to stay above a 5/10 on the IMDb and 30% on Rotten Tomatoes. genre: die hard clone, action, thriller. A fairly disappointing follow-up, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory follows Steven Seagal’s Casey Ryback as he’s forced to once again spring into action after armed terrorists commandeer a passenger train. On vacation with his niece on a train from Denver to L.A., he unwittingly gets drawn into another battle with terrorists intent on blowing up Washington. In "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" Steven Seagal is back as Casey Ryback, ex-Navy SEAL and current cook, and he's as snidely catatonic as ever. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory Pic once again adopts the "wrong guy at the right time" premise. It seems sometimes that to get a good review on this site, you keep having to go back a decade or two. The crew is caught off guard and neutralized. Review Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995): Die Hard on a train! When I saw the coming attractions trailer for "Under Siege," I had the feeling I'd already seen the movie: Terrorists land on the USS Missouri and occupy the great battleship. The success of "Die Hard on a ship" led to an inevitable sequel - Under Siege 2: Dark Territory or "Die Hard on a train". Introduction Under Siege surprised many people who expected total and utter drivel but got an entertaining action movie. Under Siege 2 is an unfairly underrated movie. Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Detail is pretty good, but not wholly stable, occasionally allowing both grain and softness to invade the picture. / Believe it or not one of Seagal's best. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is a 1995 American action thriller film directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Steven Seagal as the ex-Navy SEAL, Casey Ryback.Set on board a train traveling through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Los Angeles, it is the sequel to the 1992 film Under Siege also starring Seagal. The formula is obvious: "Die Hard Goes to Sea." It's about as far-fetched as the first film was, but… Under Siege 2-Dark Territory sees Ryback in the same scenario as detective John McClane, wrong place, wrong time. However upon each viewing I actually am enjoying it a whole lot better. Directed by Geoff Murphy. Under Siege 2 gets its Blu-ray debut complete with a 1080p High Definition video rendition in the movie's original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 widescreen. 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