As a fan of Seagal's earllier films (Nico, Hard to Kill, Marked for Death and Out for Justice) I was looking forward to see how his first real big budget movie (Under Siege had a budget of $35Million, compared to the $10-$14Million that his earlier films had) was going to be and I wasn't disappointed, I had never heard of the director Andrew Davis, but just one year later (1993) he would give us 'The Fugitive' with Harrison Ford and again Tommy Lee Jones. Yes it's a sort of Die Hard clone, but then what movie where one man takes on an entire army / terrorist cell, isn't these day, but the action is well directed, compared to Seagal's later movies (On Deadly Ground being one) where the hand to hand has been speeded up, this is pure Seagal. We have, a what seemed to be at the time a puzzling casting choice with Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey playing the villians, but was actually a stroke of genius by then casting director Pamela Basker, who was also Casting Director on Marked for Death, Out for Justice and later On Deadly Ground. Jones and Busey are for me the highlights of the movie, Tommy Lee on fine Character acting form as the ex-CIA operative with a history with Seagal's Ryback character, great stunts, great action, the only downside was in truth Erika Eleniak who in my opinion didn't bring anything to the movie apart from the now infamous cake scene. Enjoyable and fun actioner that hits all the right spots.