Tommy Lee Jones had a peculiar status late in his career: he starred in several action blockbusters, without getting to do anything action star-like in them. When you think of Jones in action movies, you remember how he commands a scene, rather than any physical dominance. In Under Siege, the climactic knife fight isn't what makes him memorable; it's moments like the conversation directly beforehand, where you can practically see the footprints on the ground due to him acting circles around Steven Seagal, with banger lines like, "I got tired of coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other f**king people." Jones was frequently action-adjacent throughout the '90s, until he made the bold career step of playing a professional going after a wanted fugitive — and actually getting in some action star moments — in 2003's The Hunted.
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