Plot: Hercule Poirot hijacks an airplane full of toxic gas, and threatens to explode it in the USA, killing many.  Steven Seagal and Kurt Russel investigate.

This is a rather tame terrorist movie.  Sure, it's got a higher bodycount than most Steven Seagal-films... but then again, it's not a Steven Seagal film - even if it is on the Steven Seagal collection.  But I've seen better.  This one did look better now than it did when I first saw it, eons ago.  Lower expectations.  And I was drunk.

We get to see a Steven Seagal cliche:

Steven Seagal whispers all his lines.

The good:

Hercule Poirot is in it.

Seagal doesn't get to be sociopathic in this one, making him a sort of likeable character.  He even has his heroic moment. 

The landing scene is fun.

The bad:

The movie drags a bit.  At over 2 hours, it is the longest movie in the collection, and the one with least Seagal action.

The unbelieavable plot shines through due to aforemetioned slow pacing.

Final thoughts:

This isn't actually an action film.  This is a disaster movie.  Sort of.  The quality is that of a direct to video movie, even high for that, and there are fun bits strewn about.  Steven Seagal haters get to see Seagal fall out of an airplane.  Seven Seagal fans like to imagine Seagal having the attributes of a flying squirrel...

For fans of old style disaster movies in the vein of "Airport," who want to try something with more explosions.

Rating this as a Seagal flick: average.

Rating this as an action flick: below average.

Rating this as "Film": All right.

Things to consider: can Seagals fly?