Rewatchables Reference

• The opening kitchen scene – Seagal cooking, Busey spits in the bouillabaisse, Seagal punches Busey.
• Tommy Lee's 'Welcome to the Revolution' speech – in leather jacket, bandana, and sunglasses.
• The big reveal that Ryback is actually a decorated Navy SEAL.
• The Tommy Lee Jones vs Seagal knife fight – finger through the eye, then puts him in the microwave.
• The forced kiss at the end – 'Here's one move.'

• Really good character entrances – Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Erika Eleniak.
• Seagal's non-funny jokes – unintentionally hilarious.
• Gary Busey still in drag: 'Do I look like I need a psychological evaluation?'
• The terrorists having fun – cracking champagne, playing rock and roll.
• Jimi Hendrix 'Voodoo Child' needle drop during the revolution scene.

Jimi Hendrix 'Voodoo Child' – plays when Tommy Lee's crew blows up the first jet, pops champagne, 'Welcome to the revolution.' Absolutely iconic use.

• Erika Eleniak's character – jumps out of a cake and within 30 minutes is part of a counter military coup.
• Seagal benched for too long – hurts the movie compared to Harrison Ford staying active in Air Force One.

• All the Seagal stuff – his reputation and behavior.
• The era of gratuitous action movie nudity.
• Captain Adams – worst dead guy acting ever, can see him breathe and blink.
• The obvious Tommy Lee Jones body double in the final fight.
• 'Here's one move' – the forced kiss at the end.

• Kyle: 'The Fugitive' would have been a better movie if Steven Seagal played Dr. Richard Kimball.
• Bill: Tommy Lee Jones plays the exact same character in 'Under Siege' and 'The Fugitive' – same performance, just one has good intentions and the other bad. He wins the Oscar for essentially the same role.

• Harrison Ford agreed to do 'The Fugitive' after seeing a rough cut of 'Under Siege'.
• James Woods was supposed to play the Tommy Lee Jones villain role.

Gary Busey – 'The hardest we've had in a while.'

• Dwayne Davis – 'Alvin Mack' from 'The Program', also in Necessary Roughness and Beetlejuice.
• Glenn Morshower – the red-headed guy from 24.
• Colm Meaney – starts with an American accent and gives up, 'he's Irish for his last 5 scenes.'

The unnamed war room soldier who delivers: 'Approximately 1 million people will reach 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit in less than a second.' Won on the strength of that one line.

• Joe Pantoliano in the Colm Meaney role.
• Samuel L. Jackson in the Gary Busey role – 'He's just a cook, motherfucker.'
• Philip Baker Hall as the captain.

• Budget $35 million, grossed $156.6 million. 2 Oscar nominations for sound.
• Original spec script called 'Dreadnought' by J.F. Lawton, sold for $1 million.
• Erika Eleniak's first feature film role at age 12 was the girl Elliot kissed in E.T.
• Shot on the USS Alabama in Mobile, AL (not the real USS Missouri).
• Harrison Ford signed on for 'The Fugitive' after seeing a rough cut of this film.
• Most successful film at the time not screened for critics prior to release.

• Steven Seagal – yes. 'Under Siege is the one.' Then went downhill with On Deadly Ground.
• Erika Eleniak – yes.
• Tommy Lee Jones – not quite yet, 'The Fugitive'/No Country are bigger.
• Gary Busey – debatable between Buddy Holly Story, 'Point Break', and this.

• How did 20+ armed terrorists just get onto a nuclear battleship?
• A 'surprise party' as the cover story for a nuclear battleship hijacking.
• Only one girl for the party? 'How about 6 girls?'
• Colm Meaney starts American and gives up – Irish for his last 5 scenes.
• He tells someone to take his pies out of the oven, but the US Navy only uses electric ovens.
• The terrible final line: 'Keep the faith, Stranix.'

• Can Casey Ryback actually cook? We never actually see him cooking.
• Did Seagal need the ponytail? (This is the only movie without it.)
• Worst body of any action hero ever?

• The 'Under Siege' menu – Pasta Rybecchio, Casey's Kimchi – framed on a wall.
• Tommy Lee Jones's aviator sunglasses and leather jacket.

Don't underestimate the cook.

'The Fugitive' – 'this is how 'The Fugitive' came to be.'

Tommy Lee Jones – got his role in 'The Fugitive' from this, won the Oscar, still doing insurance commercials for $2 million an hour.