"On Deadly Ground 2" sees Seagal reprise his role as mystical martial artist/environmental agent Forrest Gump...er Taft. After kicking (and punching) the EVIL Oil Company (Every-Villaine Industries & Lubricants) off the lands of the Alaskan natives in the first movie, Taft thinks his work is done. That is until one night, while meditating in his sweat lodge, he receives a vision of a mysterious little man in a green suit who shows him that the EVIL Oil Company is once again up to its old tricks and is threatening the sacred lands of another native people.

So begins a spiritual journey that will lead Taft to the West of Ireland, where he is hampered by a pro-corporate police force, weather that would make the Red Spot of Jupiter seem like a dogfart and a post-Celtic tiger public transport system. His only allies, the local natives, become paralysed by superstitious fears about mysterious odours coming from the direction of an offshore island, compounded by reports on the sighting by local fishermen of a ship named "The Elisabeth Viking", a ship which had disappeared at sea under mysterious circumstances nearly 200 years ago.

Ultimately Taft realises that he must stand alone against forces of darkness, red tape and corruption like none he has ever before encountered.

Directed by John Carpenter and co-starring Maggie Grace, this is one that everyone should have on their Christmas shopping list this year.

The prequel.

A remarkably similar story.