A hardbodied actioner for the softheaded, MAXIMUM SECURITY relocates the overused DIE HARD formula plot to a prison.
Shortly after he boards his waiting jet in Los Angeles, an Arab prince (Vanick Moradian) is taken hostage by terrorists led by the superciliously sinister Murdock (John Lazar). Muscular LAPD cop Mason Richter (Paul Michael Robinson) talks his way aboard and decimates the gunmen singlehandedly.
Then he's forced to shoot the enraged prince, who had staged the whole thing to extort money from his family. Because the State Department values relations with the Sultanate, Richter is railroaded for the killing and sentenced to the new maximum-security In...
Released:
1996
Rated:
R
Length:
80 mins