Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below (1997)

  • 11% of critics liked it
    (27 reviews)

  • 47% of users liked it
    (29,776 ratings)

Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief agency… More

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R, 1 hr. 43 min.
Directed By
Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Harry Dean Stanton
Written By
Jeb Stuart, Philip Morton
Genres
Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Sep 5, 1997 Wide
On DVD
Sep 4, 2001
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

    As a movie, it's a piece of drivel.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    By-the-book stuff, but that's what's expected whenever the name 'Steven Seagal' tops the marquee.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    There are movies that you know can't be any good, so they'd better be great. Fire Down Below ... achieves that grand level of absurdity.

  • Sean Means, Film.com

    Seagal barely works up a sweat... He certainly doesn't work up any drama.

  • Tom Keogh, Film.com

    One big self-distraction and nothing that vaguely resembles a real film.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Arash X


    Is there a single worthwhile Seagal movie out there?

  • Derek D


    If you can't stand country music like me, then you'll enjoy watching Seagal total wannabe fighters like Mark Collie. Unfortunately, Seagal tries to blend music and action and neither one works, much like the rest of this movie, despite it's above-average cast. I liked… More

  • Dean M


    Steven Seagal goes after some nasty corporate types who are covertly dumping toxic waste in Kentucky's Appalachian hills while the locals suffer at their hands. It's the old save-the-ranch cowboy B-movie for mula with extra kicks.

  • danny d


    i love this movie. this is one of my guilty pleasures. seagal movies arent "good", but they are at the same time good. this is one of his best.

  • Khris N


    An eco-thriller for Segal Fans. Alright stuff.... the rattlesnake scenes were good - but the action is what counts.

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