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.
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03/05/06
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... [More]
Reviews for Fire Down Below
A by-the-numbers actioner that hits most of its marks.
01/01/00
There are movies that you know can't be any good, so they'd better be great. Fire Down Below ... achieves that grand level of absurdity.
01/01/00
This is sub-par Seagal, which puts it down below just about everything else.
01/01/00
The acting is wooden (Seagal gets more zombie-like with each film), the writing is ridiculous and the fight scenes are redundant.
01/01/00
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03/11/04
By-the-book stuff, but that's what's expected whenever the name 'Steven Seagal' tops the marquee.
01/01/00
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02/27/01
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'...
06/23/02
Fire Down Below is an action film that's deadly slow and stupid -- like most of the mountain people portrayed in the film.
06/23/04
Unless you're in the market for boredom, skip this one.
02/06/02
Never really generates much heat but instead delivers recycled lukewarm thrills.
01/01/00
[Seagal's] action scenes are so one-sided that nobody in the film ever lays a finger on him. It gets boring.
01/01/00
You have to give Seagal points for having his heart in more or less the right place, but Fire Down Below is a hugely silly movie.
01/01/00
Not a very good film, but it does offer a few pleasant surprises, and I was not expecting that from a Steven Seagal flick.
01/01/00
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02/07/05
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