Fire Down Below . Tucson Weekly . 09-22-97

Fire Down Below

DIRECTED BY: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

REVIEWED: 09-22-97

Perhaps the best feature of this film is that they can use the same title for the inevitable pornographic parody. Steven Seagal, dressed in some of the most appalling leather outfits since Pamela Anderson's few clothed scenes in Barb Wire, stars as a bizarrely violent E.P.A. agent on the trail of evil polluter Chris Christofferson. Posing as a missionary carpenter (you figure out the symbolism), he goes to a small Appalachian community and starts repairing porches in the hopes that someone will be grateful enough to turn state's evidence. When this bone-headed plan doesn't work, he just blows his cover and starts hurting people until the pollution stops. Then he hurts more people because he thinks the judicial system wasn't tough enough on the polluters. Then he marries the woman whom the community has ostracized because they think she murdered her father when really her brother, who had been molesting her, murdered their father and got her to take the rap before joining the evil polluters and getting caught in a cave-in within the toxic-waste-filled coal mine after a shoot-out with Steven Seagal, who escapes so he can marry the aforementioned ostracized woman. Then the movie is over and nobody else gets their ass kicked while the credits roll.

--DiGiovanna

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