Capable action director John Lyde's Meth house mean, Teflon tough, nuts and bolts actioner is wound up tighter than most. And without shaming names, very few 80s action icons have maintained a convincing career as an authentic alpha butt-kicker into the noughties, and perhaps none, excluding JCVD remain quite as beloved as towering Thug-trashing titan Dolph Lundgren. Appropriating the hard-time tested trope of vengeful cop deliberately incarcerated to ice the skell that done him so fatally wrong, the formulaic 'Prison Riot' plays rather well in spite of its generic B-Movie premise, strongly bolstered by yet another strong performance by mountainous mancake Dolph Lundgren, with dynamic pretty boy Matthew Reese agilely executing the plentiful, close quarters fight scenes with remarkably explosive aplomb!
'Prison Riot' is an exceptionally boisterous Grindhouse blend of gritty prison flick and fleet-fisted 80s-era Kung Fu B-Movie beatdown that is given additional spice by including plentiful bodacious-looking catfights! The fully jacked, vengeance-seeking cop Jack Stone (Matthew Reese) makes for an energized protagonist, and many of the film's bruisingly efficient fight scenes enjoy a 'Raid'-like intensity, and the deadly delicious stud Dolph proves there's considerably more life in the ol' Lundgren yet! Famed MMA fighter Chuck Liddell makes for an okay-ish snarling B-nemesis, but Lyde's bone-bustingly bellicose actioner pretty much belongs to the charismatic Dolph, and excluding his 2005 epic 'The Mechanik', 'Prison Riot' is a terrifically teeth-rattlingly treat for Dolph fans old and new!
'Prison Riot' is an exceptionally boisterous Grindhouse blend of gritty prison flick and fleet-fisted 80s-era Kung Fu B-Movie beatdown that is given additional spice by including plentiful bodacious-looking catfights! The fully jacked, vengeance-seeking cop Jack Stone (Matthew Reese) makes for an energized protagonist, and many of the film's bruisingly efficient fight scenes enjoy a 'Raid'-like intensity, and the deadly delicious stud Dolph proves there's considerably more life in the ol' Lundgren yet! Famed MMA fighter Chuck Liddell makes for an okay-ish snarling B-nemesis, but Lyde's bone-bustingly bellicose actioner pretty much belongs to the charismatic Dolph, and excluding his 2005 epic 'The Mechanik', 'Prison Riot' is a terrifically teeth-rattlingly treat for Dolph fans old and new!