Taft non è un tipo imparziale, ed è consigliabile averlo come amico, è il più duro fra gli uomini dei pozzi petroliferi d'Alaska. È specializzato nel combattere incendi, ma dovrà gettarsi in... Leggi tuttoTaft non è un tipo imparziale, ed è consigliabile averlo come amico, è il più duro fra gli uomini dei pozzi petroliferi d'Alaska. È specializzato nel combattere incendi, ma dovrà gettarsi in uno scontro ancora più infuocato, contrastando il Presidente della Aegis.Taft non è un tipo imparziale, ed è consigliabile averlo come amico, è il più duro fra gli uomini dei pozzi petroliferi d'Alaska. È specializzato nel combattere incendi, ma dovrà gettarsi in uno scontro ancora più infuocato, contrastando il Presidente della Aegis.
- Premi
- 1 vittoria e 6 candidature
- Otto
- (as Swen-Ole Thorsen)
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- QuizSteven Seagal agreed to appear in Trappola sulle Montagne Rocciose (1995) if Warner Brothers allowed him to direct this movie.
- BlooperAfter Taft runs MacGruder into the helicopter's tail rotor, Liles drives by and sees the body, which doesn't appear to have suffered a grave head injury. MacGruder is lying on his stomach with his hands over his head and no blood visible.
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Michael Jennings: [seeing all his workers fleeing for their lives] You're a bunch of GUTLESS PRICKS! ALL OF YOU!
Michael Jennings: [seeing a worker close to him running away] You! Come help me!
Oil worker: FUCK YOU!
Michael Jennings: You yellow BASTARD!
- Curiosità sui creditiThe first half of the end credits run over images of Alaska and its various wildlife, until we see Forrest Taft & Masu in a canoe, with Taft pointing out to Masu, a crow in front of them circling over the water (supposedly meant to be Silook in another form)
- Versioni alternativeGerman TV and Retail-Video/DVD Versions are cut to reduce violence. The uncut Version is available on Rental-Video and DVD.
- ConnessioniEdited from Giustizia a tutti i costi (1991)
There is nothing significant or exceptional about Seagal's direction. Nor is the action very well done. It's cut too lazily and not shot for maximum viewing clarity. But what reeks about the story is that some big oil magnate called Michael Jennings (a completely hammy Michael Caine) wants to build a really shoddy oil rig in Alaska made out of dodgy parts because the rights to the land are about to revert back to the Eskimos after 30 years of non-use. So why wait 30 years to build the bloody thing?
Seagal plays Forrest Taft, an oil rig fireman who suddenly develops a conscience and is promptly eliminated from the payroll by way of being blown up. Only he is rescue by the Eskimos and, this is where the film just goes insane, goes on a spiritual journey in which he wrestles bears and turns into eagles and stuff. I mean, what the hell is all that about??? Don't even get me started on the scene where he makes a fully-grown hard-ass redneck cry in a bar full of similar stereotypes when the philosophy touches his soul. Then he gets his old self back together and sets about righting all the wrongs of Aegis Oil and saving the environment by littering it with dead bad guys.
Jennings hires a bunch of mercenaries (including R. Lee Ermey and Billy Bob Thornton) to take out Taft but of course they all prove to be useless since Taft is revealed to be an ex-CIA Agent (oh dear God..)Nothing much really happens apart from shooting and dying and Seagal beating up nameless extras. We've seen all of this before and it's no different this time round.
I do appreciate his environmentally friendly attitude but it could have made it a little less obvious and campy. Seagal's tacked on speech at the end originally ran for 30 minutes (Jeezuz sufferin') but Warner finally stepped in and said a big no-no.
We could have had an Oliver Stone or Insider amount of paranoia and conspiracy but this just ends up as the worst of Seagal's Hollywood movies.
- CuriosityKilledShawn
- 16 ott 2000
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- Budget
- 50.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 38.590.458 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 12.679.573 USD
- 21 feb 1994
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 38.590.458 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 41 minuti
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