On Deadly Ground is a 1994 environmental action-adventure film, co-produced, directed by and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, and Billy Bob Thornton. Despite holding #1 position at the box office, it was a commercial and critical failure.
Steven Seagal plays Forrest Taft, a specialist in dealing with oil drilling-related fires. At a site of an oil-well fire, Taft is told by his fri...
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On Deadly Ground is a 1994 environmental action-adventure film, co-produced, directed by and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, and Billy Bob Thornton. Despite holding #1 position at the box office, it was a commercial and critical failure.
Steven Seagal plays Forrest Taft, a specialist in dealing with oil drilling-related fires. At a site of an oil-well fire, Taft is told by his friend and rig-foreman Hugh Palmer (Richard Hamilton) that Aegis Oil, his employer, is deliberately using faulty preventers on a new refinery in Alaska and is covering up the fact. Forrest refuses to believe it at first but while fighting the fire, discovers that the preventer is in fact faulty. He tells Michael Jennings (Michael Caine), the CEO of Aegis, but is instantly rebuffed and told that the fire was caused by Hugh's carelessness and nothing else.
Later that evening, at a bar, Taft runs into Hugh, who tells him to go to Aegis 1, the new...
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