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| Directed by | Anthony Hickox |
| Produced by | Avi Lerner George Furla |
| Written by | Anthony Hickox Paul de Souza |
| Starring | Steven Seagal Christine Adams William Hope Vinnie Jones Gary Daniels |
| Music by | Guy Farley |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Millennium Films |
| Release date(s) | May 2005 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10,000,000 USD (estimated) |
Submerged is an action film, released in 2005. The film stars Steven Seagal, Christine Adams, William Hope, Gary Daniels, Alison King and Vinnie Jones. The film was directed by British director Anthony Hickox.
[edit] Plot
Chris Cody (Steven Seagal) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to stop a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil—a strike that the UN refused to believe was about to happen. However, Cody had to break a number of laws in order to do the job, and he's in a military prison.
A recurring subplot involves an ancient alien race that comes from the skies in huge aircraft and maintain a trading business with the miserable peasants at an Uruguayan village.
At the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, Secret Service agents are briefing the ambassador on a terrorist base when they suddenly go haywire and kill her, and then themselves. Later, in Washington DC, intelligence analyst Dr. Chappell (Christine Adams) concludes that some sort of mind control device must have been used. A Delta Force commando team is sent to Uruguay to investigate, but they are quickly ambushed and captured. Taken to the terrorist base, they are brainwashed by Dr. Adrian Lehder (Nick Brimble), a scientist who heads a secret CIA experiment in mind control, programming soldiers to become virtually unstoppable killing machines when they're given the right commands.
The Navy recruits Cody and his talented crew to take Chappell and special agent Fletcher (William Hope) with them in an effort to destroy the facility and take down Lehder. Cody is promised that in exchange, he and his crew will be freed and cleared of the alleged misconduct that they were accused of and receive 100,000 dollars each. Suspicious, Cody quickly jettisons Fletcher, who turns out to be in league with Lehder. Fletcher tips off Lehder, and they quickly abandon Lehder's facility, leaving behind a few American prisoners as Trojan horses.
One team of Cody’s men commandeers a submarine, while the others secure the base and rescue the prisoners. The team fights its way past a tank, destroys the base, and escapes on the sub. But they end up stuck on the sub with some of the mind-controlled soldiers. After fighting off the soldiers and escaping from the sub, Cody and his crew realize that they must race to bring down Lehder before the rest of his soldiers claim them all.
[edit] Cast
- Steven Seagal as Chris Cody
- William Hope as Agent Fletcher
- Christine Adams as Dr. Susan Chappell
- Vinnie Jones as Henry
- Nick Brimble as Dr. Arian Lehder
- Alison King as Damita
- P. H. Moriarty as Chef
- Gary Daniels as Col. Sharpe
- Ross McCall as Plowden
[edit] External links
- Submerged at the Internet Movie Database
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