DAC Episode 327 - The Random Canon #54 - Under Siege (1992)

something about live dogs and dead lions here. i don’t know.

Before we recorded this podcast, Adam promised to lead with a question that he promised would ruin my enjoyment of the movie. Little did he know that his question would actually UNCOVER THE KEY TO THIS MOVIE’S GREATNESS.

What is it that makes 1992’s Under Siege great? Is it the dolphin in that one shot from the opening sequence? Gary Busey in drag? The movie’s acknowledgment that the ideological void left by the end of the Cold War would be replaced not by a coherent vision of the global order but by hucksters willing to use the language of utopian ideals to cover up their crimes? Is it the idea that Steven Seagal is as good at making bouillabaisse as he is at driving knives through the lymph nodes of mercenaries? Listen below, or find us on your podcatcher of choice, to find out!