Belly of the Beast
Belly of the Beast is a 2003 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director Ching Siu-tung in his American directorial debut, and starring Steven Seagal, who also produced. The film co-stars Byron Mann, Monica Lo and Tom Wu. Seagal plays Jake Hopper, a former CIA agent on a quest to find his kidnapped daughter. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on December 30, 2003; the film recouped its budget from the US home video market alone.[2]
For other uses, see Belly of the Beast (disambiguation).Belly of the Beast
Thomas Fenton (uncredited)
James Townsend
Steven Seagal (uncredited)
Jamie Brown
Randall Emmett
George Furla
Gary Howsam
Steven Seagal
Charles Wang
- Steven Seagal
- Byron Mann
- Monica Lo
- Tom Wu
Danny Nowak
David Richardson
Mark Sayer-Wade
- December 30, 2003
91 minutes
United States
English
Thai
$14.3 million[1]
Production[edit]
Belly of the Beast is set and was filmed in Bangkok, Thailand, and was filmed over 42 days from February 3 to March 17, 2003.
The film ends with words saying "In Loving Memory of our friend Trevor Murray," who was the film's production designer. Murray died from natural causes in Bangkok during the last few days of filming.
Reception[edit]
Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com gives the film 1.5/5 and is highly critical of Seagal: "It's not just that Seagal makes awful movies; it's that he makes the exact same awful movies over and over."[3] Empire gave the film 1/5, saying that even compared to other Seagal films "this one is especially woeful".[4]
Home media[edit]
The film was released in Region 1 DVD in the United States on December 30, 2003, and Region 2 in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2004 by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment.