Review of Maximum Conviction (2012) by Leon B — 06 Apr 2015

My second Steven Seagal film, and I feel like this is what I can expect with any more of his movies. Low budget, dumb, action flick. The story is boring, and adding in some really useless back story didn't help at all.

They use the same prison as seen in Force of Execution starring Seagal again, which is a simple confined set for a simple action movie. There's the guards, and there's the intruding CIA that are there to kill a certain female prisoner.

The pace is ok, the acting and script are horrible, and the overall look and feel is cheap. The action is crap, CGI muzzle flashes, terrible sound effects for the guns and bullet impacts, and usually resorts to hand to hand combat.

Even when the soldier is wearing a combat vest with magazines clearly all over it, they throw done true weapon after they finish a mag or two. Then the fist fighting is a mess of confusion where the good guy simply destroys the other guy, except for the terrible idea of having the CIA girl beat the crap out of the one soldier and the other big prisoner.

She was a very unlikable character, with some sort of super power that let's her beat up the best special op men there is. It's a chase around a prison, it's boring even with the lame action, and I spend a good chunk of watching laughing at how stupid it was.

Many little things made me laugh that I will not mention, it was just overall poorly done and predictable. Low budget is not and excuse.