One of numerous action movies starring Steven Seagal that have been released direct-to-DVD after Half Past Dead bombed.
Seagal plays Marshall Lawson, the leader of some elite paramilitary force. After an opening with the credits superimposed over some blurred footage of what appear to be strippers dancing, we cut to him and his team blowing up and shooting some bad guys whose identity is never explained at what appears to be an abandoned warehouse. Next thing, they're in Gay Paree, and two men from the team get massacred in their hotel room by a hooker they pick up in a strip club. Marshall, investigating the deaths, gets tangled up in some impenetrable plot involving a bad guy dumping a drug called CTX into the city's water supply to turn the inhabitants into savage killers. Or something.
Was originally going to be about aliens. To accomplish the change, they redubbed a few of Seagal's lines. It's noticable.
Do not confuse this with the 1982 Australian movie, Attack Force Z.
This film provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Marshall's girlfriend Tia, and a handful of other women show themselves to be capable fighters.
- Ambidextrous Sprite: Thanks to poor editing, various noticeable flipped shots of characters appear through the final fight scene.
- Artistic License – Geography: Aroon's base is apparently located in Bastia, a small village near Bordeaux. In reality, Bastia is nowhere near Bordeaux, being located on the island of Corsica and can hardly be described as a small village, seeing that it is the second largest town of the island.
- Anyone Can Die: By the end of the movie, all of Marshall's allies are dead, except for a Red Shirt, oddly enough.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Marshall in the final battle wields one of these, attached to his wrist, which he used to kill the main villain by stabbing him in the scalp.
- Covers Always Lie: Seagal's leather jacket he wears in the above DVD cover? Not in the movie. Although it's clearly because that's a body double from an unrelated film, with Seagal's head photoshopped on the neck.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Marshall kills Reina while she's wearing transparent lingerie, exposing her nipples from behind the parts of her shirt that are opaque. Her corpse is then prominently viewed in three different scenes.
- Elite Mooks: The villains are enhanced by some sort of Super Serum, making them extremely dangerous and puts up a brutal fight against Marshall and his team.
- Fight Unscene: Given the movie's budget and rushed schedule, most of the action set pieces ends up like this, being shot in darkness, with a lot of close-ups and choppy editing.
- Gay Paree: One of the key action setpieces of the film is set in one of these.
- Gorn: Loads and loads of it shows up in the fight scenes.
- Psycho Serum: The source of the main villains' powers, which makes them far more formidable enemies with quicker reflexes and agility.
- Punny Name: Marshall Lawson is a pun on "Martial Law''.
- Too Dumb to Live: Reina tries to break from her bonds and strangle Marshall while's she helpless and outnumbered during interrogation, and gets executed in cold blood for it.
- Would Hit a Girl: Marshall effectively only fights and kills women throughout the film.
