On Deadly Ground
A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.
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"In this Alaskan film, Joan Chen plays what is quite probably the last word in Sino-Eskimo snow bunnies. Eskimo Joan represents the same sort of Hollywood confusion about racial boundary lines which saw Larry Fishburne play the Moor of Venice, and Jackie Chan cast to play the King of Pop in an upcoming TV movie. (I'm kidding about one of these.) Not to mention generations of Italian and Jewish Indians, and more white actors in blackface than there are seeds in a watermelon. Joan is teamed here with Steven Seagal, quite probably the last word in inarticulate and extremely violent tree-hug..."
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Producer and director Steven Seagal filmed almost 40 minutes of footage for the environmental message at the end of this movie, and planned to use it all in the final cut. After pressure from Warner Brothers and a disastrous preview screening, where audience members booed, laughed, and made obscene gestures for the entire sequence, Seagal cut the final scene down to about seven minutes.
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A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.