It’s fairly embarrassing to the once-mighty profile of Seagal that Nia Peeples, playing Donny’s lethal right-hand gal, completely upstages him in their various fight scenes, and it’s her death more than Donny’s that sends the message that the baddies won’t win this time. What Donny doesn’t know is that Sascha is lurking about, gathering up all available inmates as allies for an assault, including Nick and the enormous Little Joe (Michael “Bear” Taliferro). Donny, tired of a government worker’s salary, just wants Lester to tell him where he stashed $200 million in gold before his arrest. Sascha, originally inside Alcatraz to gather intelligence on mobsters, just wants to free the hostages. Yet, underneath all the screenwriting shenanigans, it seems Sascha and Donny are really simple guys. Supreme Court Justice Jane McPherson (Linda Thorson) is among those here to see Lester’s last minutes, and her imprisonment is just one of several plot moves that triggers unintentional comedy. For reasons known to nobody in particular, U.S. Cannell, who could have provided a needed rewrite) has things under control for a planned execution of gold thief/murderer Lester (Bruce Weitz), his assistant Donny (Morris Chestnut) has some surprises in store.įaster than you can say “impregnable,” a skydiving gang dressed in their best version of “Matrix” black descends at night on the island and all too easily takes over the prison and several hostages, including those in the sleek ultramod death chamber, which looks more like a place for executive boardroom confabs than executions. Though it appears that prison bureau chief Hubbard (TV producer/novelist Steven J. But in order to maintain his cover, Sascha takes several bullets fired by FBI troops during a raid on Nick’s back-alley headquarters, and just barely comes back from the dead.Įight months later, Sascha has recovered and keeps his cover by joining Nick, now behind bars at Alcatraz, reopened and buffed into a new high-tech profile under the ultramacho direction of El Fuego (Tony Plana, having a trashy good time). Tyro director Don Michael Paul’s messy script has a habit of fudging things whenever it wants to, so it turns out Sascha really is a Russian who happens to talk just like Steven Seagal, and he really does work for the FBI. In a 15-minute prologue, Seagal manages - without the slightest effort at an accent - to convince a mobster and an associate, Nick (Ja Rule), that he’s a Russian named Sascha Petrosevitch who doesn’t work for the FBI.
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