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It's so unbelievable (don't get me started), and it all looks so fake (every room in this Alcatraz looks like a movie set), that you don't believe it for a moment. You know none of the good guys are in jeopardy, since fairly constant machine gun fire fails to touch a single person. It just goes on and on, keeping things noisy and busy enough that we stay awake. The filmmaking isn't terrible, just inept and stupid. The acting, on the other hand, is terrible. There are a few decent performers (Weitz, Thorson and even Chestnut and Peeples to a degree), but the film is so over-done that even they come across as cardboard cutouts. The fact that Block of Wood continues to make movies is astonishing, although his fight scenes are the only ones that feel even remotely authentic. The others all look like movie ballet pieces--heavily choreographed dance numbers rather than actual battles. At least it has the requisite silly end-credit sequence (between Kurupt and Mo'Nique) to send us out with a smile on our face.