In Hell (2003)
Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up with Hong Kong director Ringo Lam for a third and final time in this brutal prison based action movie.
Van-Damme plays an ordinary guy incarcerated in a scary Russian prison run by a corrupt general after taking revenge on the man that murdered his wife. Once in prison Van Damme is beaten and battered by pretty much everyone until he agrees to take part in the General's death matches.
Imagine Steve McQueen thrown in the cooler in The Great Escape and that's what repeatedly happens to Van Damme. Luckily he can bulk up and get fighting fit (literally) without anyone beating the crap out of him. Using the time to delve into the darkness of his inner self and then teaming up with his new cell mate, the formidable prisoner 451 (Lawrence Taylor) he beats the corrupt system.
Nothing you won't have seen before. As far as prison movies go this is no Escape from Alcatraz or The Shawshank Redemption, but then you wouldn't expect or want it to be. In Hell is pacy, snarlingly violent thrills and although shit might not blow up it definitely get's kicked out of folk.
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