Cast
- Steven Seagal as Forrest Taft, a specialist who puts out oil fires who ran an afoul with Ageis Oil
- Michael Caine as Michael Jennings, a corrupt, ruthless CEO of Aegis Oil and the film's main antagonist
- Joan Chen as Masu, the daughter of Eskimo tribe chief Silook
- John C. McGinley as MacGruder, chief of security of Aegis Oil and Jennings' main henchmen
- R. Lee Ermey as Stone, the leader of the mercenary group based in New Orleans
- Shari Shattuck as Liles, Jennings' threacherous secretary
- Billy Bob Thornton as Homer Carlton, one of Stone's men
- Richard Hamilton as Hugh Palmer, rig foreman of Aegis Oil
- Chief Irvin Brink as Silook, chief of the Alaskan Eskimo tride
- Apanguluk Charlie Kairaiuak as Tunrak
- Elsie Pistolhead as Takanapsaluk
- John Trudell as Johnny Redfeather
- Mike Starr as Big Mike
- Sven-Ole Thorsen as Otto (as Swen-Ole Thorsen), Jennings' henchman
- Jules Desjarlais as Drunken Eskimo
- Irvin Kershner as Walters, the director of the Aegis Oil commercial
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