Product Description

Steven Seagal (Belly of the Beast, Out for a Kill), the free world's most "independent" anti-terrorist agent, is going down under - not to foreign ports but submerged, under the sea, where waves of deceit are set to torpedo his command permanently. Chris Cody (Seagal) is summoned from his military prison cell and promised a presidential pardon - with a hitch. An American Ambassador has been assassinated - by the U.S. Secret Service. Now the C.I.A. wants Cody to uncover and terminate this deadly operation, but they don't tell him the truth. Cody ends up overpowered and trapped beneath the waves but hardly out of his depth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39785 in DVD
• Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
• Released on: 2005-05-31
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Chinese, English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

Very very bad
I won't go into a summary of the plot. I admit I rented this without even reading what it was about, just because it was a Seagal movie.

I didn't have high expectations. Even so...

After about 30 minutes I gave up.

First off, for those of you who actually watch it, what's up with the super-dooper fakey spy plane in the beginning? The planes in "Team America" looked more realistic than this garbage.

Also, they can afford to have a helicopter to shoot scenes in, but the background is so obviously computer generated? What a joke.

And once again I wondered what the heck was going on when every scene that required a voice over dub by seagal was done by somebody who sounded NOTHING like seagal.

Fighting? Not in this movie. Lots and lots of shooting though. For so called best-of-the-best professional soldiers, they couldn't hit the walls of a barn if they were standing inside the barn. There's one scene in which 200+ of the baddies with automatic weapons and a TANK are being held off by like 4 or 5 goodies with automatic machine-pistols. They're in a tunnel, like 100 feet from each other, firing hundreds if not thousands of rounds and like nobody gets hit? What a joke. One of the boring-ist scenes I've ever had to sit through. That's about when I called it quits.

This movie is garbage. It's pure poop. It's too bad also, because even though everything since "Exit Wounds" in my opinion was poop, "Into The Sun" I thought was actually pretty good.

I'll keep renting his movies just in the hopes that someday I'll actually enjoy one of his movies once again. So I suppose they'll keep churning out this poop because people like me will keep renting them. I'd imagine that they'll rent good, but I can't imagine any of his newer movies are being actually purchased. I guess his career is over, and I should get over it. But I'll keep up hope for now that someday, somebody will actually put this over-the-hill out-of-shape former-bad-a** into a decent movie.

Until then, we'll always have "out for justice" :) Anybody here seen richie?

Total Excrement!
As a Seagal fan I have to say that this direct-to-toilet DVD ranks high on my all-time worst film list. Seagal started getting pretty bad when he released The Patriot. Between that horrible film and Submerged Seagal has released a few decent direct-to-video films. Submerged is not one of them. The sound quality on Submerged was awful. It's bad enough trying to understand what Seagal says with his mumbling (or the dubbing), but my wife and I found ourselves turning the volume up and down depending on the scene. While you don't really buy these films for the plot, you expect at least a minimal storyline...not with Submerged! We gave up on Submerged less than 15 minutes into the film. Unless your a Seagal fan and feel the overwhelming compulsion to add to your collection, do not buy this DVD!!! If you're not a fan, don't even bother renting (or borrowing from a friend)!

A Sad Experience
It would be easy enough to say that this film is pathetic, and leave it that, but it is more complicated than that. I was very dissappointed with this film for several reason; Seagal's DTV films have been of increasingly poor quality over the last several years, and then much to many people's pleasant surprise, out came "Into the Sun." By many people's estimation, this film actually provided some hope for people who had really wanted to keep supporting Seagal. He seemed to be reclaiming himself, and I had hoped that "Submerged" would be another step in this direction. Instead, this is without a doubt the worst film that Seagal has been associated with. I can only explain it's quality as being akin to an adult film, with only dialouge, and artless violence. It is as though Seagal has completely given up on caring about the quality of his films to the point that he even allows his voice to be overdubbed throughout, and puts his career in the hands of directors that have no talent or integrity. Thus, Submerged is a cinematic travesty. My hope is that, while he still can, Seagal comes to his senses, and pairs with a decent director who respect's the man's potential. I believe that Seagal still has it in him to reclaim something of what he once was and tranlate it into film. If "Submerged" is any indication, a once bright star is fading slowly and not going out in a blaze of glory as it should. Yes, I will continue to watch this star, and will cheer if he finds it again, or just shake my head if he continues to falter. "Submerged" is for lack of better word, a sad affair.