Albanian-born fight choreographer Peter Malota steps up to direct this dead-faced Van Damme vehicle based around the ethnic wars following the break-up of Yugoslavia. Following a botched attempt on the life of a Serbian minister, the dying dignitary and his gun-toting bodyguards haul-up in an Los Angeles hospital to kill the culprit: a defected assassin known as Philip (JCVD), who methodically fends off the remaining heavies alongside the nurse, Suzanne (Autumn Reeser), who is helpfully revealed to be a martial arts expert. One of the baddies is Van Damme’s contemporary, Daniel Bernhardt, who gets to go toe-to-toe with JCVD, and Van Damme’s own son, Kris, who is rather unceremoniously off’ed in a knife fight. The film mostly belongs to Autumn Reeser, who tells the whole story in flashback sequences during an exposition-heavy, good-cop-bad-cop routine back at FBI headquarters, peppered with screechingly clumsy dialogue. Inane, but it does have its moments.
- Country: United States
- Action Director: Peter Malota
- Directed by: Peter Malota
- Starring: Autumn Reeser, Daniel Bernhardt, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kris Van Damme, Maria Conchita Alonso, Peter Stormare
- Produced by: Rafael Primorac, Richard Salvatore
- Written by: Brian Smolensky, Craig Stewart, Jesse Cilio
- Studio: Arramis Films, Destination Films, ITN Films, Kill 'Em All Productions, March On Productions