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Spirit Warrior: Regent of Darkness
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Us Manga Corps Video
Starring: Todd Beadle, Chief Irvin Brink, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, Jules Desjarlais
Directed By: Steven Seagal
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781586643256
Format: Animated
ISBN: 1586643258
Label: Us Manga Corps Video
Manufacturer: Us Manga Corps Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Us Manga Corps Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-12-02
Running Time: 48
Studio: Us Manga Corps Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1994-02-18
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Editorial Reviews:
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With Tomoko and the mystical Dragon Orb in his possession, Siegfried von Mittgard now has everything he needs to become the dreaded Regent of Darkness — or so he believes. As Siegfried prepares to use the Dragon Orb to unlock the darkness, Kujaku must come to terms with his unbelievable destiny and rescue Tomoko.
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Summary: What does it take?
Comment: "What does it take to change the essence of a man?"
"I need time."
Brilliant. See this movie to hear some more of Steven Seagal's pearls of wisdom.
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Summary: Steven Seagal Rules
Comment: I love watching all Steven Seagal movies as they make me laugh more than anything. The more bloated he gets, the funnier the movie. This is a good movie to watch anyway, so give it a try.
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Summary: Deadly For The Wrong Reasons
Comment: I don't like "On Deadly Ground" very much. I know I'm not the first person to have said so, but even as a fan of Steven Seagal, "Deadly Ground" really isn't a lot of fun. I don't know if it's because of the melodramatic story, the silly scenarios, or simply because I'm comparing the film with Seagal's previous venture - the $156 million action-powerhouse, "Under Siege" - but it just isn't as good as the stuff he did before in his early career.
The story is the first of several environmentalist-thrillers for Seagal, and goes like this:
Seagal is a specialist fireman employed by an Alaskan oil-drilling corporation run by a ruthless tycoon (Michael Caine), who openly demonstrates his disregard for the damage his work does to the land and the native inhabitants. After he expresses doubt in the company's integrity, Seagal is targeted for assassination but survives, and is nursed back to health by local Inuits, who guide him to a spiritual reawakening as a fighter for the good of the people and an enemy of "Big Oil".
While I don't mind a green message in an action film, it's hard to imagine the script being handled any more hamishly than by star/director Steven: the oil corporation is the most unabashed, politically-incorrect evildoers you'd ever want to see, with Caine freely throwing out phrases like "the godd*mn Eskimos" - Eskimos which, for the most part, seem unaware that they're living in the 20th century, and whose Seagal-awakening rituals look more Pagan than you'd expect (lots of breathless panting, and dancing, topless women).
Seeing that the issues within the film are relevant to the real world, it's disappointing that a legitimate environmentalist like Seagal would overdramatize and sensationalize them so he can appear a bigger hero.
You'd think that the movie would still be able to fall back on action to make up for the story, but "Deadly Ground" is a failure here, too: Seagal is at his blandest in knocking out bar patrons and shooting up a plantful of mercenaries, with no cool moves (besides using a soda bottle as a silencer) to highlight the step-by-step beat-`em-ups.
There's one scene in the film that really sums the whole thing up: after seeing a drunken native being abused by a white bar-goer, Seagal challenges the man to a game of hand-slap, after every try of which the man lets Seagal beat him to the ground, instead of taking flight or trying to fight back. This silly and forced-looking encounter is performed simply so Seagal can make ask a philosophical question, which really has no relevance to the rest of the movie.
Personally, I'm convinced that if Seagal had never done "Deadly Ground", he would've stayed in the big-budget market longer than he did...but those are just my thoughts.
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Summary: He can direct but can he act?
Comment: I used to have a real thing about watching Steven Seagal movies, but there's really nothing wrong with them. They're easy to watch, and I have actually enjoyed a couple. He's never going to be the best actor, as he plays the same character, with the same facial expression in every movie. But hey, he has the moves.
There's not much storyline considering. A severely black haired Michael Caine, playing Michael Jennings, (who does actually look like he covered his head with oil), is the bad guy of the movie, who wants to build an oil rig, complete with dodgy parts, in Alaska, before the ground reverts back to the Eskimos. Pretty blah. Forrest (Seagal) interferes, and promptly gets blown up. But the story isn't over. He gets rescued by the Eskimos, and goes on a one-man rampage against Jennings.
From here the film descends into spiritual and environmental nonsense - I'm all for attempting to save the planet, but this is nonsense. Most of the dialogue sounds hokey, and Billy Bob Thornton is nowhere to be seen in this movie. (Seriously, his name is in the credits, but I cannot see him!) There's a big bar brawl, where Forrest makes a big man cry (the bad guy from Beethoven 2), and an old guy features quite a bit, in a painful sequence. He's hiding a very important disc don't you know.
There's nothing we haven't seen in any other Seagal movie. Unfortunately, this also has Seagal's name as director, and that's a big mistake. Occasionally (notice I said occasionally) actors think they can direct. Sometimes they can. In Seagal's case, he has no idea how to link scenes together, and apparently, his god awful speech at the end was supposed to last forever. And then some! No thank you.
On Deadly Ground is a little bit too much on the environmental side, with not enough ideas gone into the script or the actors. Michael Caine? Well wrong in this role. So wrong. Steven Seagal? He's not bad as an actor, he's never going to be great, but his head exploded and he thought he could direct, and get the world to change what they started years before. Stick to the beating up. Do what you do best.
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Summary: Why are the Reviews for "Fire Down Below" listed here with "Spirit Warrior: Regent of Darkness," an Anime Cartoon?
Comment: That's pretty much my question. The product featured and described here is a dvd of a Japanese anime mini-feature called "Spirit Warrior: Regent of Darkness." It has nothing at all to do with the 1994 film by Steven Seagal.
Please, Amazon people--let's get this fixed (though it is kind of funny)
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