When former black ops operative Cross (Seagal) and his partner Manning (Austin) are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners....
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Steven Seagal | ... | Cross | |
| Steve Austin | ... | Manning | |
| Michael Paré | ... | Chris Blake (as Michael Pare) | |
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Ian Robison | ... | Warden Samuels |
| Aliyah O'Brien | ... | Charlotte | |
| Steph Song | ... | Samantha | |
| Michael Adamthwaite | ... | Collins | |
| Bren Foster | ... | Bradley | |
| Toby Levins | ... | Davies | |
| Dean Redman | ... | Jones | |
| Richard Stroh | ... | Terrence | |
| Teach Grant | ... | Max | |
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Cindy Maines | ... | Esmerelda |
| Zak Santiago | ... | MP Fields | |
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Richard Jollymore | ... | Kaidonov |
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When former black ops operative Cross (Seagal) and his partner Manning (Austin) are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Cross realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined. Written by voltage
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12 January 2013 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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Part of the movie was filmed in a youth facility in Vancouver, British Columbia but production was kicked out as Man of Steel (2013) had come in to shoot there. They moved production to a shut down asylum. See more »Goofs
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Several years ago I essentially stopped watching Steven Seagal's new movies, because they had become unbelievably bad. However, this new film of his intrigued me because he was being paired up with Steve Austin, so I decided to give it a look. After watching it, I swear once again I will not rent any future Steven Seagal movies. Austin is not a great actor, but he does seem to be trying - certainly a lot better than Seagal, who is awful. Seagal has gained so much weight that he waddles instead of walks, and his martial art sequences are so rapidly edited that it's clear he can't pull off multiple moves like he did with his earlier films. Though plenty of blame has to fall on the shoulders of director Keoni Waxman, who films the action sequences (both martial art and gun battles) in the dullest way possible, and lenses everything in unattractive and murky colors. By the way, though the DVD box seems to suggest that Seagal and Austin fight side by side, in actual fact their characters have almost no time together.