Submerged

Sorry, I am cheating because I didn't see it, but being an Uruguayan, having read the plot, and having watched some other awful Seagal's movies is enough for me. In fact, I became aware of this movie as it appeared today in Urugay's newspapers as an hilarious article. As another uruguayan said, this film is a celebration of ignorance! We don't have goats, we don't have any Mayan ruins, we have a (truly) democratic government with 80% of acceptance among the population, we have no terrorists at all (and we don't like them either) and no major incident has happened here since the late 70's. Also, we are a *sub*-tropical country with no bananas at all, having a nice 0 to 10 Celsius degree winter right now. It is all so ridiculous that the film is truly becoming a cult movie down here! Everyone wants to watch it (including me). After all, there are not many good funny films around lately...

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Submerged

Really a case for taking the movie out of the market! The use of Uruguay name and flag without having done a proper background research on the country should be punished. Uruguay is a beautiful country and is far away from what is pictured in the movie. The good thing is that Uruguayans are very proud of their country (as every one should be) and they will make their voice strong on this topic. Anyaway a good one will be that Uruguay invites the Director of the movie and maybe Seagal too, to a visit to the country so they can see how far away from the reality they are. Apart from this, for all the ones that think that this type of wrong impression given in movies does not harm , they are very wrong. Most of the people nowadays get to know about different countries and cultures via movies. Uruguay is a very touristic place and this bad image can cost them a lot, but on the other hand the type of tourism that goes to Uruguay won't be even close to a movie like this Cheers

Maybe this film is slightly better than "The Ticker", the worst Segal movie I have watched so far. The guy from Uruguay is right. I have never been there, but as a Brazilian, I know that the place doesn't look like Uruguay at all. The film is very confusing, that sort of movie style that mixes the past, present and future and you get lost on the plot. Segal just showed his Aikido techniques for 30 seconds or so..this is why I rent these movies and I was disappointed. Another strange thing. The movie is called "Submerged". I was expecting that the film was totally IN a submarine...actually it's not. The guys just spend less than 15 minutes in the sub before it is sank. The movie headline says "terrorists in a nuclear submarine".....well...the guy who are in the sub are not terrorists nor the sub is nuclear. One of Segal's crew says the sub is an old piece of junk.

Unfortunately, this total stinker of a movie repeats all the previous mistakes from Steven Seagal's recent films. I'll mention a couple of them -Almost no fighting. The action scenes mainly consist of really boring gunfights, and they are performed rather badly. I guess Seagal just got to lazy to try something more physical. Shame on you, man. -Very stupid story. It was rather hard to follow, and had so many twists and turns that the movie instead seemed like a mess of a mix of random events. It's just so clear that Seagal doesn't care about his movies anymore, since everyone can see that he makes no effort at all here. Also, it was very sad seeing Gary Daniels sinking into the gutter together with Seagal here. A great martial artist like him, and he only had one very bad fight who involved no fighting techniques at all. A total waste, people. Do your hear me? A TOTAL WASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please quit the business, Steven.

I really had my hopes up for this one. After reading the original description of the film describing biological cargo...submarine...terrorists I thought we had the makings of an unrelated "Under Siege" sequel and since "Under Siege 2" was better than "Under Siege 1" and with the recent likable Seagal film "Into the Sun", I figured let me give it a look. And it wasn't even worth my viewing it for the full 90+ minutes. The storyline was way off the original description and it seems that we are now watching a poor man's "The Dirty Dozen". Though I rented this movie because I am a Seagal fan, I found that Vinnie Jones played a pretty good role and B+ movie action lead Gary Daniels is totally under-utilized. And the direction style used by Anthony Hickox does not lend itself to the movie in any way. It's a shame that this is what Seagal has come to with the movies he makes. Perhaps he should take a step back and look at "Into the Sun" which brought him back to his original form.

This picture is based in a country with bananas, terrorists, tyrant government, Heidi's girls raising goats...COME ON!!! URUGUAY IS IN SOUTH America, and we raise COWS no goats!!! This is one of the most peaceful countries in America, that's one of the most particular characteristics of our country. We have nothing in common with BULGARY (where it was filmed), we don't have Maya's ruins (that is in north and central America, please!!!), and we can't hide a submarine!! If you want to create a new country, be my guest! But you are showing this movie all over the world with bad concepts and a very poor history. Please...search a little more before you film a movie!!!

We are usually Steve Seagal fans but as time goes by, we find the plots get murkier and murkier and harder to follow. The director was over-enamored with jerky forwards; this device can be used to effect but not if done too often. Most disturbing, however, was that early on I could no longer suspend my disbelief when the action takes place in Uruguay and they showed Mayan ruins (the Mayans lived in Central America and Uruguay is northeast of Argentina). Shortly thereafter one of Seagal's crew sits down to drive a submarine and notes in dismay that the instructions are in Spanish. Hello? The instructions are in Italian. Also, even though most of the inter-acting protagonists were Americans, Spanish is the language spoken in Uruguay. I think I detected about two words in Spanish; it did not lend to the over-all authenticity.

Seagal's workload was huge in 2005. He had four releases: "Into The Sun", "Submerged", "Today You Die", and "Black Dawn" . As long as the paychecks keep coming, he churns them out like there's no tomorrow. This time around, Seagal plays "Chris Cody" who is released from prison to go on one last assignment: To infiltrate some double agents or something. It's very confusing. You also can't see what's going on most of the time because to hide Seagal's nonstop weight gain, he is shrouded in black (note all his black clothing). All you see is Seagal's fat head. He also doesn't do his own ADR work. He once again uses a voice double that sounds NOTHING like him. But this time he was trying to be clever and put on an "Cajun accent" to fool people. The saving graces are the performances by those wacky Brits Vinnie Jones and Gary Daniels. Here's an idea: Vinnie Jones Vs. Gary Daniels in a duel to the death! Now there's an action movie! For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com