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My wife insisted we see this because it is a movie in which her therapist played a featured part! So groaning I said, fine, whatever, and in all good faith we sat back to enjoy the marvelous countryside of Alaska and to drink in this story of a man, Forrest Taft, who at the beginning of the picture works on a huge oil rig for a wicked corporation, and who later changes his mind about how he's living his life. People say Steven Segall never changes, but here's a movie in which he undertakes the biggest journey of them all, cleansing his soul in the process. He's not good at acting, but that's neither here nor there. If you ask me, his direction of this movie was spot on and he should definitely have gotten more offers to direct. It's just a shame his leading actor was so wooden and chubby. <
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>Forrest Taft has one great friend aboard the oil rig, a crotchety old coot who's always berating Forrest for forgetting the little people and sucking up to the big boys. Blinded by greed, Forrest doesn't listen to the old man. Then one day, the old man threatens to blow whistles on Michael Caine and Caine has him horribly tortured and murdered by John C. McGinley. They break each of his fingers with an ivory tusk! Probably whalebone, eh? Then they castrated him with a plumbing tool! I can still hear the screams of the old guy--nobody deserves to die that way. <
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>All in search of a computer disk in which the old codger had named names and shown that the corporation, in a hurry to exercise mining rights granted them twenty years ago by unthinking tribal leaders, the corporation has used unsafe equipment that has caused the death of several innocent workers. <
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>When Forrest Taft learns of this death, he goes a little crazy and begins a vision quest in which he becomes a bear. Not the kind of bear we have here in San Francisco, but a spirit bear, and a Native wise man tells him, "You are a bear, you have a destiny to fulfill." Blown up by Caine's henchmen and left for dead, Taft is rescued by a pack of polar bear hunting Indians, who tie him to their dog sled and take him home to a beautiful native hut on multilevels, where toothless hags grin lopsidedly and Forrest really trips out when the chief plucks bullets out of his spine with eagle-like talons. <
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>It becomes a race between starting up the oil rig, and demolishing it in a sort of ecoterrorist act. Seagal the director makes sure our sympathies lie with the right cause. Joan Chen is on hand as the chief's daughter, she's great of course but why didn't they think of hiring a Native American actress, would that have been difficult, Warner Brothers? I don't know, it just rang false to me. Otherwise the movie showed a roughhouse world of hard drinking, hard working, hard loving factory workers all sweating blood and tears doing great work except in the service of evil, corrupt people determined to destroy our beautiful planet. <
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>The movie has Billy Bob Thornton prominently in the credits, but he gets to say about three things. The movie's credits say his character is called "Homer Carlton," but how do they know? <
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>Anyhow enough nitpicking, see it for yourself! Add a star if YOUR therapist is in the movie too.

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Pleased
I like most of Segal's works because they have a message that deals with issues that affect the environment.

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this had to done as a tax rightoff
not even michael caine could save this BLEEDING HEART(in more ways than one) about the raping of the alaskaen interior by an oil company is just so bad that you wonder how it ever got made. steven seagal walks through it in a half daze(he also directed)and kills more pepple than any accident by an oil company! the final "speach" is the only part of the movie that works(but only because it's so funny,not because it's good)! movies like this are what killed mr. seagals movie chances!! <
> REALLY,REALLY BAD!!!!!!!!!!