GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Michael Ledo Cross (Steven Seagal) is an operational genius. His partner Manning (Steve Austin) is a weapons expert. They are ex-special forces who work as black ops contractors. Their current job is to decommission a black ops prison, one that doesn't officially exist and is located in Oregon (seriously?). For some reason our "operational genius" decides to shut down the prison while it still has prisoners in it.During this period there are men dressed as Federal Marshals attempting a "high risk extraction" of two female prisoners to prevent them from going to a civilian prison. The film consists of Seagal/Austin and crew fighting in a prison maze against the bad guys. Seagal doesn't know if the women are in league with the bad guys or if the bad guys want them dead. It isn't hard for us to figure it out from their faces which show expressions. (Take note Steven, it's called acting!)Early in the film Steven Seagal laughs, something I don't recall him doing in another movie. It made me laugh to watch it.The plot is simple as most Seagal productions. There is plenty of killing, fighting, and blood. The picture appears to have been written more with Seagal in mind than Austin. I had expected more. Austin has done better films, and with Seagal it is hard to tell. This could have been one of his better productions. They need to write a part for Danny Trejo and make him the perennial bad guy. I smell sequel.Parental Guide: F-bomb, no sex, no nudity.

Prismark10 Cross (Steven Seagal) and Manning (Steve Austin) are some kind of black ops personnel who have been sent to decommission an old prison. It is holding two mysterious women who some mercenaries led by Michael Pare have been sent in to extract.It is up to Cross and Manning and their small team to save the base and protect the women and find out what is so valuable about them.What we get is a dimly lit, poorly edited, turgid film where the only villain is Pare out acts both the main leads.Seagal is fat and out of shape. Austin fares better, he gets to crack a few jokes and strangely both stars only appear in a few scenes together. The action scenes are flat with no imagination or even decent fights.It looks like a quickly made and cheap action movie made for the direct to TV market.

Leofwine_draca MAXIMUM CONVICTION is a prison-assault thriller featuring everyone's favourite once-was-great, Steven Seagal, as a former special ops agent who must do battle with a gang of criminals in a disused prison. The film was directed by Keoni Waxman, who has previous when it comes to dodgy DTV movies, and for added value also features former wrestler turned action star Steve Austin as the second hero.And it's a good job Austin is around, because Seagal is barely in this one. He's doubled for much of the fighting, as usual, and he shows up to waddle around for a little while and beat up a bunch of bad guys like he always does. His role is really extraneous and Austin does much better as a star, injecting a little humour here and there.Unfortunately, while the film's plot is workable - criminals vs. good guys in a big prison, with hulking cons and gun battles to contend with - the execution is workmanlike and the fight scenes are invariably disappointing. The acting is pretty bad too, particularly from the female stars, although it was good to see the long forgotten Michael Pare putting in some good work as the nasty villain. Expect a little violence, lots of cheesy dialogue, and shadows. Lots of shadows.

joemon_2009 My type of movie. Was so like Die Hard with Michael Pare character and his men taking over the prison with innocent people killed and heroes like Seagal and Austin being the only ones to save the day. Austin's quote "No pain, no gain" was a repeat of catchphrases that heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger used upon defeating an opponent.Seagal just like in all his movies never takes a beating, but that's Steven Seagal for ya.This film is just what Die Hard influenced just like other films in 90s onwards like Under Siege, Sudden Death, Air Force One, Speed, Lockout etc. Especially with the limit of locations. It does show action films have become more brutal over the years especially with the Warden having his finger cut off by Blake.