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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory movie poster
Directed by	Geoff Murphy
Produced by	Arnon Milchan, Steve Perry, Steven Seagal
Written by	J.F. Lawton (characters), Roger Hatem, Matt Reeves
Starring	Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Katherine Heigl, Morris Chestnut, Everett McGill
Music by	Basil Poledouris
Cinematography	Robbie Greenberg
Editing by	Michael Tronick
Distributed by	Warner Brothers Pictures
Release date(s)	July 14, 1995
Running time	99 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$60,000,000 (estimated)
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory is a 1995 action film, and is the sequel to Under Siege.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Critical & box office reception 3 Trivia 4 External links

As in the film that preceded it, Steven Seagal plays Casey Ryback, an ex-Navy SEAL.

Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) has now retired from the Navy, and is now a chef at the Mile High Cafe in Denver, Colorado.

Casey is taking his niece Sarah Ryback (Katherine Heigl) on a trip to Los Angeles to visit the grave of Casey's brother, who was Sarah's father. They board a train traveling through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to Los Angeles.

Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian) takes the train hostage, and starts using the train as a control center in his efforts to take control of Grazer One, a top-secret government super-weapon satellite. Dane built Grazer One, but he was fired by the government before Grazer One was deployed.

Dane has since hooked up with Middle Eastern terrorists who have offered him one billion dollars to use the satellite to blow up the Eastern seaboard by targeting a nuclear reactor that is under the Pentagon.

Dane uses Grazer One to blow up a Chinese chemical plant in order to demonstrate Grazer One's capabilities to his investors and at the request of one investor, Dane blows up an airliner carrying the investor's ex-wife.

A big problem is that officials can't stop Dane because they can't locate his headquarters. As long as the train keeps moving, his location can't be fixed.

Casey enlists a porter named Bobby Zachs (Morris Chestnut) to help him go after Dane. After Casey kills Dane's henchmen, and as the train crashes into a freight train loaded with gasoline, Casey and Dane get in a fight on a helicopter above the train. As Dane is hanging from the helicopter, Casey severs Dane's fingers causing him to fall to his death.

Under Siege 2 opened to mostly good reviews from Critics like Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun times gave the film 3 stars while Peter Rainer of the LA times said "the action upstaged the actors.".Most critics and fans alike were disappointed in the films choice of villains in comparison to the first movie.

At the box office Under Siege 2 opened in 2,150 theaters and made $12,624,402 with a hefty $5,871 average for the weekend.At the end of its domestic run it totaled a $50,024,083 in receipts and $104,324,083 worldwide.In comparison to the first Under siege and with its 65 million budget it was seen as a minor disappointment.

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• Roger Hatem and Matt Reeves adapted their script Dark Territory, which they had sold to Richard Donner's company for $1 million, into a sequel to Under Siege.

• At the time of the film's release, Steven Seagal told Jay Leno on The Tonight Show that producers had originally hired Gary Busey as the villain. When Seagal told them that Busey's character had died in the first film, producers replaced the character, but still had to pay Busey because he had signed a pay-or-play contract.

• Jon Peters left from being a producer after learning that Gary Busey's character was killed off in the first film.

• The UK version of the film, although rated 18, was cut for violence by 2 minutes.

• In the scene where Bobby Dachs (the porter) attempts to restrain Sarah (outside the broom closet), Sarah uses a version of the Aikido technique Nikkyo

• Steven Seagal's character, Casey Ryback, uses an Apple Newton MessagePad prominently in key scenes during the movie, especially its ability to fax documents.

• The railroad passenger cars were built especially for the movie by Colorado Railcar Company and are still in existence today.

• The scene of the destroyed industrial facility in China uses unused footage from On Deadly Ground (1994) (also a Seagal Movie). In "On Deadly Ground" it's the burning Aegis Oil facility.

• Julian Sands and Jeff Goldblum were among those who refused the role of Travis Dane.

• Travis Dane's signature line, "Chance favors the prepared mind," is a phrase originally said by Louis Pasteur.

• The countdown timer blip sound effect on the computer used by Eric Bogosian (Travis Dane) is a blip sound from a Motorola-brand pager.

• Travis Dane's notebook computer was a Toshiba T4600C which featured a 33MHz 486 Processor, 4MB of RAM, and a VGA display.

• Filmmakers pioneered a new technique that enabled them to film all the interior train scenes (practically all the film) in the studio. Tennis balls glued on the studio walls were used as reference points to allow computers to insert footage of Colorado scenery, even when the camera moved around.

• During initial test runs for filming of the external scenes, sparks from the locomotives caused flash fires along the railroad. The locomotives had to be fitted with spark arresters before filming could begin.

• In the final scene at the cemetery, we see Seagal's character is now a full lieutenant instead of a chief petty officer.

• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory at the Internet Movie Database

• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory at Rotten Tomatoes

• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory trailer

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Major films	Above the Law (1988) • Hard to Kill (1990) • Marked for Death (1990) • Out for Justice (1991) • Under Siege (1992) • On Deadly Ground (1994) • The Glimmer Man (1996) • Fire Down Below (1997) • Exit Wounds (2001)
Albums	Songs from the Crystal Cave (2005) • Mojo Priest (2006)
See also	Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt • Steven Seagal Enterprises