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Fire Down Below

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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

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[Seagal's] action scenes are so one-sided that nobody in the film ever lays a finger on him. It gets boring.

Full Review Source: Cinematter | comment Comment
01/01/00
Madeleine Williams
Madeleine Williams
Cinematter

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.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
01/01/00
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
Film Journal International

Not a very good film, but it does offer a few pleasant surprises, and I was not expecting that from a Steven Seagal flick.

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01/01/00
Matt Easterbrook
Matt Easterbrook
Matt's Movie Reviews

A by-the-numbers actioner that hits most of its marks.

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01/01/00
Melissa Morrison
Melissa Morrison
Boxoffice Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
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Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle

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Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Seagal barely works up a sweat... He certainly doesn't work up any drama.

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Sean Means
Sean Means
Film.com

One big self-distraction and nothing that vaguely resembles a real film.

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Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh
Film.com
 
 
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