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Fire Down Below (1997)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:3
Rotten:22
Average Rating:3.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Action guru Seagal goes rustic as a hard-line EPA agent who brings his own brand of environmental justice to bear upon waste-dumping corporate baddies in a run-down Kentucky mining town. When not... Action guru Seagal goes rustic as a hard-line EPA agent who brings his own brand of environmental justice to bear upon waste-dumping corporate baddies in a run-down Kentucky mining town. When not bringing villains to their knees, he befriends a band of locals and empowers them to stand up for their rights. Features bits from country music luminaries Levon Helm, Randy Travis, and Travis Tritt. [More]
Starring: Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton
Starring: Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Kris Kristofferson, Harry Dean Stanton, Stephen Lang, Levon Helm, Ed Bruce, Mark Collie, Brad Hunt, Alex Harvey, James Mathers, Richard Masur, Randy Travis, David Brisbin, Travis Tritt
Director: Felix Enriquez Alcala
Director: Felix Enriquez Alcala
Screenwriter: Jeb Stuart
Story: Jeb Stuart
Screenwriter: Philip Morton
Composer: Nick Glennie-Smith
Producer: William S. Gilmore, Julius R. Nasso, Steven Seagal, Ronald G. Smith, Jeb Stuart
Reviews for Fire Down Below
The eco-hero who strikes fear in the heart of every polluting industrialist and sighs of pity in the heart of every fashion designer, Steven Seagal, takes his act to the backwoods of Kentucky
A real pleasant surprise with a less brash, more likable Seagal. Manages to show a genuine affection for the kind of rural folks elitist Hollywood usually ridicules.
Fire Down Below is an action film that's deadly slow and stupid -- like most of the mountain people portrayed in the film.
Marg Helgenberger plays Jack's love interest, the kind of tormented backwoodsy recluse Helen Reddy used to sing songs about. The stultifying aw-shucks courtship between the two is like a nightmarish version of 'The Bridges of Madison County'...
This is sub-par Seagal, which puts it down below just about everything else.
The acting is wooden (Seagal gets more zombie-like with each film), the writing is ridiculous and the fight scenes are redundant.
By-the-book stuff, but that's what's expected whenever the name 'Steven Seagal' tops the marquee.
Never really generates much heat but instead delivers recycled lukewarm thrills.
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