Academy Award winner Michael Caine delivered a humorous slight in the direction of Steven Seagal after seeing 1994’s On Lethal Floor.
After a string of “Steven Seagal is…” motion pictures — Above the Regulation, Marked for Loss of life, and so on. — it was time for him to direct his first: 1994’s On Lethal Floor. It, expectedly, was an absolute dud, one thing that co-star Michael Caine knew and acknowledged on the premiere.
In one of many many unbelievable tales from Nick de Semylen’s ebook “Final Motion Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage” – which chronicles the perfect and worst motion flicks of the ‘80s and ‘90s – it’s revealed that Michael Caine had a quite coy means of expressing his views on On Lethal Floor to Steven Seagal, who he was seated subsequent to. As soon as the lights got here up, Caine delivered his verdict to his co-star/director: “I actually didn’t suppose it could be wherever close to this good.”
Seagal, for his half, held no grudge towards Michael Caine for his slight towards On Lethal Floor and was nonetheless happy with the film. “I had lots of the biggest administrators on earth come to my premiere…And I wasn’t actually too nervous about it, what they’d give it some thought, as a result of I used to be happy with my work.”
To make issues even worse for Caine, the Oscar winner couldn’t even get pleasure from himself when filming On Lethal Floor because of the locales. “I had damaged one of many cardinal guidelines of dangerous motion pictures…For those who’re going to do a foul film, no less than do it in a fantastic location.”On Lethal Floor filmed in Alaska, Wyoming, Washington, and extra. Caine has spoken sick of the motion flick earlier than, saying, “I obtained determined to the purpose that I accepted an image in Alaska with Steven Seagal, the martial arts skilled. The film was referred to as On Lethal Floor and the title was to show apt.”Marvel what Brian Cox considered Michael Caine’s efficiency…
Luckily, Michael Caine prevented garnering one of many film’s six Razzie nominations, whereas Seagal would “win” Worst Director and be nominated for Worst Actor and Worst Image (as producer). For what it’s price, Seagal solely has another Razzie nod for performing than Caine.
The place do you set On Lethal Floor within the checklist of greatest/worst Steven Seagal motion pictures?