First off, I'm a big Steven Seagal fan (yes they still exist in 2020j, i have a signed 8x10 hanging above my nightstand. Seagal's 1990s movies are mostly very good, aside from a few turkeys like the Glimmer Man and Marked for Death (the one where he takes out a gang of Jamaicans who are harassing a small town). Fire Down Below, along with Under Siege and Hard to Kill are my thee favorites.
Seagal's character, "Jack Taggert," is some sort of martial-arts, gun-toting EPA agent (I didn't know those existed) out to stop the nefarious actions or an industrial company than dumps toxic waste into mountainous mine shafts, which widespread death and illness in a small Kentucky town. No one is willing to speak out because this company provides kickbacks to the residents, and those that do speak out are subjected to violence, or worse. Enter Taggert who is investigating his missing EPA colleague who had been investigating the filthy water.
Taffert is obviously not welcomed to the rural community, aside from the local minister and a kindly female beekeeper and a love interest. He is offered money to go away, and when he refuses, he is subjected to am escalating series or attacks, only because he's Steven Seagal, he doesn't get even a scratch on him, even when he's blown out of a mine shift with TNT, or attacked by a half-dozen construction workers carrying two-by-fours and others. I don't want to give anything more up, but if you like Steven Seagal movies, but can't get through the post-2000 no-budget disasters featuring a rotund Seagal wearing giant Asian robes in order to hide his ever-increasing girth, Fire Down Below is well worth watching. Another underrated Seagal flic: The Patriot (not the Mel Gibson Revolutionary War film).
Seagal's character, "Jack Taggert," is some sort of martial-arts, gun-toting EPA agent (I didn't know those existed) out to stop the nefarious actions or an industrial company than dumps toxic waste into mountainous mine shafts, which widespread death and illness in a small Kentucky town. No one is willing to speak out because this company provides kickbacks to the residents, and those that do speak out are subjected to violence, or worse. Enter Taggert who is investigating his missing EPA colleague who had been investigating the filthy water.
Taffert is obviously not welcomed to the rural community, aside from the local minister and a kindly female beekeeper and a love interest. He is offered money to go away, and when he refuses, he is subjected to am escalating series or attacks, only because he's Steven Seagal, he doesn't get even a scratch on him, even when he's blown out of a mine shift with TNT, or attacked by a half-dozen construction workers carrying two-by-fours and others. I don't want to give anything more up, but if you like Steven Seagal movies, but can't get through the post-2000 no-budget disasters featuring a rotund Seagal wearing giant Asian robes in order to hide his ever-increasing girth, Fire Down Below is well worth watching. Another underrated Seagal flic: The Patriot (not the Mel Gibson Revolutionary War film).
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