Fire Down Below (1997) on Netflix

R19971h 45mAction Drama Thriller

EPA agent Jack Taggart goes undercover in Jackson, Kentucky, as a church carpenter after a fellow agent is found dead. He looks into pollution that is sickening the town's residents.

Netflix3.1/5
IMDb5.2/1020,449 votes
Rotten Tomatoes14%

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Plot summary

Frank Elkins, an EPA agent and the friend of fellow agent Jack Taggart, is found dead in Kentucky after his truck goes into a river; the state police call it an accident. An anonymous letter from Jackson, Kentucky, had reported pollution that kills fish and sickens people, and Frank's water and soil samples tested high for toxic substances. Jack is sent to Jackson, posing as a carpenter for a church run by Reverend Bob Goodall, and stays in its basement. He repairs the roof at the home of Henry Carr, whose son Walter is sick. He also meets Sarah Kellogg, a beekeeper the town treats as an outcast, and her brother Earl. Orin Hanner Jr. and Sheriff Lloyd keep watch on the church.

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Warner Bros. blamed insufficient snowfall in Alaska for delaying Rainbow Warrior, although the National Weather Service reported 47 inches of snow on the ground in Valdez; rumors followed that Seagal was annoyed enough to take Fire Down Below as tit for tat, which Warner Bros. denied.
The film drew Golden Raspberry nominations including Worst Actor for Steven Seagal, who lost to Kevin Costner for The Postman, and Worst Screen Couple for Seagal and his guitar, which lost to Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman for Double Team.
Jeb Stuart's script was acquired for $750,000, but when Frank Price joined Columbia in 1991 the script was briefly put into turnaround after Price said he did not like it.
This was the third time Kane Hodder worked with Steven Seagal as a stuntman, and it also turned out to be the last time the two worked together.