I can’t remember if Seagal said he was going to “reach out and touch someone” (i.e. blow them up) here, but it seems like something he would say.
As we discussed in our birthday tribute to Seagal, before “One Deadly Ground” the star was riding high after the success of “Under Siege” and could have coasted on his A-list status with a succession of easy and high-grossing “Die Hard” rip-offs. Instead he used all his accumulated clout with Warner Brothers to get funding for his passion project/directorial debut, where he plays Forrest Taft, a contractor who discovers that his employer Aegis Oil is intentionally cutting corners in order to get a new Alaskan oil refinery online before the land rights revert back to an Eskimo tribe.