Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995) Run time: 100 min Rating: 5.2 Genres: Action | Thriller Director: Geoff Murphy Writers: Richard Hatem, Matt Reeves Stars: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Everett McGill Trivia: Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite. | |
Storyline Seal Team Commander Casey Ryback has retired from the Navy since the conclusion of the events in the first movie, and is now a chef at the Mile High Cafe in Denver, Colorado. Ryback is taking his niece Sarah Ryback on vacation, to reconnect and commiserate with her after the death of her parents. They board a train traveling westbound through the Rocky Mountains from Denver to LA. With the help of gun-for-hire Marcus Penn a couple dozen of his mercenaries, ex-CIA brain (and mentally unstable) Travis Dane commandeers the train, takes the passengers and crew hostage, and sets up a mobile control center. He hacks into the CIA database and gains control of a Top-Secret defence satellite he designed during his Agency days that has just been deployed. Funded by various foreign interests, he stands to make 1 billion dollars for using the space weapon to blow up the Eastern seaboard by targeting a nuclear reactor housed beneath the Pentagon. Dane taunts the Joint Chiefs in the Pentagon ... Written by Angus Brewer | |
Plot Keywords: train, terrorist, satellite, niece, colorado | |
Details: Country: USA Release Date: 14 July 1995 (USA) | |
Box Office Budget: $60,000,000 (estimated) Gross: £1,658,234 (UK) (17 November 1995) | |