Fire Down Below

Name: Fire Down Below
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: September 5, 1997
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 40
Cast: Alex Harvey, Brad Hunt, Ed Bruce, Harry Dean Stanton, Kris Kristofferson

1997

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: September 5, 1997 | R

Starring: Alex Harvey, Brad Hunt, Ed Bruce, Harry Dean Stanton, Kris Kristofferson, Levon Helm, Marg Helgenberger, Mark Collie, Stephen Lang, Steven Seagal

Summary: Going undercover in rural Kentucky, an environmental agent (Steven Seagal) tries to prove the dumping of toxic waste in the local coal mines by ruthless industrialists.

Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 105 min

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Lawrence Van Gelder

A superior Seagal film, a smooth blend of action, character and noble environmental message. Credit is owed to the screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Philip Morton, which provides strong supporting roles; the photography, directed by Tom Houghton, which brings out the beauty of the landscape violated by the villains, and the lively country music, which is attributed to Nick Glennie-Smith. [6 Sept 1997, p.18]

Owen Gleiberman

The star hasn’t lost his gift for making sadism seem impish. After a while, however, you may notice that the film’s mayhem is accomplished almost entirely through editing. Read full review

Leonard Klady

Typical action fare for martial arts star Steven Seagal and, in his limited oeuvre, one of the more entertaining efforts. But the genre is pedestrian, and Seagal makes no new moves here in terms of screen personality or acting skill. What fun there is lies in the villains, some nifty stunts and a bouncy musical score rife with regional sounds. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

It's precisely Seagal's incongruity that has made him a great absurdist hero -- and that makes Fire Down Below a kick. Read full review

John Krewson

Like most Seagal movies, the violence is poorly choreographed, the clothes are bad, and you weren't going to see it anyway, were you? Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The supporting cast is stocked with far better actors than Seagal -- Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton and Stephen Lang among them -- and country music personalities ranging from Mark Collie, Levon Helm, Randy Travis and Travis Tritt to Loretta Lynn's twin daughters Patsy and Peggy, to whom Seagal's character makes some vaguely suggestive remarks. Read full review

Stephen Hunter

As an example of smash-mouth environmentalism, you'd be hard-pressed to surpass Fire Down Below. As an example of right-thinking American compassion and concern for our precious natural heritage and all the fuzzy fauna and fernyflora of the great outdoors, it's extremely forthright. And as a movie, it's a piece of drivel...Ugh! What a distasteful, silly, egomaniacal movie. [6 Sept 1997, p.D03]

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evokings

Jan 29, 2020

This movie is one of Stevens less loved works, the problem with the movie is it feels vary generic and unmotivated the antagonist is just terrible, we would like to see a better match that is more even to Steven, I know the movie is old and there is no fixing it now, but that is just one ofThis movie is one of Stevens less loved works, the problem with the movie is it feels vary generic and unmotivated the antagonist is just terrible, we would like to see a better match that is more even to Steven, I know the movie is old and there is no fixing it now, but that is just one of the issues in the movie and many of his films, you never feel like Steven is human or capable of dying, that's one of the things he needs to work on in his current movies as well, viewers like to identify with characters that are relate-able and sometimes a movie is only as good as it's antagonist and in the case of fire down below I never felt like I was on the edge of my seat.… Expand

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Steven1981

Mar 22, 2020

FIRE DOWN BELOW made in 1997 stars Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Harry Dean Stanton and Kris Kristofferson... It's an action thriller full of violence and Steven Seagal's impressive martial arts and second rate, cheap acting skills.. The story isn't that great and some of the scenes areFIRE DOWN BELOW made in 1997 stars Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Harry Dean Stanton and Kris Kristofferson... It's an action thriller full of violence and Steven Seagal's impressive martial arts and second rate, cheap acting skills.. The story isn't that great and some of the scenes are laughably stupid and hilariously bad especially the fight scenes and acting. The characters and villains are horrible and laughable and it's not overall that exciting however fairly entertaining. Some of the acting is also fairly overacted with hilarious and stupid characters and Seagal being the "I'm the good guy, baddest dude on the planet" type character which at times is laughable. More of Seagal's awful acting and he even won a razzie award for worst actor making this movie which says it all and he got a stinker award. Fire Down Below is one of the stupidest, bad acted, camp and downright absolute crappest movies of all time and certainly one of Steven Seagal's worst but I'd say 99% of his films are rubbish to be honest. Terrible film with no redeeming features or likeable characters except Marg Helgenberger.… Expand

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