This shameless rip-off of DEADLOCK (1991), a fairly entertaining action picture starring Rutger Hauer and Mimi Rogers, is tiresome, repellent hogwash with the texture of a WWF cable special set in an extreme-fighting cage in outer space. In the year 2251, minor crook Riley (Arye Gross) finds himself incarcerated with bad company after prison pilot Teegs (Maryam D'Abo) mistakenly delivers him to a maximum security penitentiary called Alpha 4. Located in a freezing galaxy and built atop an atomic reactor, Alpha 4 outfits its residents with a neck implant that blows up if prisoners venture beyond the prison perimeter. Unfortunately for scaredy-cat Ryan, a group of new a...
Released:
1998
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins