Totally rips-off Red Scorpion

I don't know if any of you have seen Red Scorpion starring Dolph Lundgren and released way back in 1988 but On Deadly Ground actually uses the same premise only switching to a different location.

Here an excerpt from my review:

The story has been a great influence on the story of Steven Seagal’s eco-action movie “On Deadly Ground”. For those of you that don’t know here’s a quick recap of On Deadly Ground: Seagal works for an oil-company and finds out they’re the bad guys. They try to kill him, but fail after which he finds refuge at a local Inuit tribe. Here he comes in contact with their spiritual ways and gets an animal symbol; a bear. He then leaves the tribe to take the oil company down.

So here’s the synopsis of Red Scorpion: Lundgren is a highly trained Russian special forces soldier but fails on a mission. The army tries to kill him, but fails after which he finds out the criminal acts by the Russian army and finds refuge at a local Bushmen tribe. Here he comes in contact with their spiritual ways and gets an animal symbol; a scorpion. He then leaves the tribe to take the Russian army down.

So as a Seagal Movie purist it’s pretty funny watching movie released 6 years earlier and seeing all these “coincidences”. The only thing missing from Red Scorpion is a 5-minute speech at the end of the movie about how the Cold War is bad. But then again, Rocky IV already had that speech.