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Probably the worst movie I've seen this year. Only thing worse than the acting was the dialogue and the 2-note soundtrack. (Hmm I wonder why it is necessary to have 5 lines minimum here. This movie was not worth wasting any more than 2 lines on! I prefer to be recommending films but when I can't, I just don't want to be really derogatory.)

Wow such a horrible movie!!!! I watch because I like Dolph Lundgren but I decided to sign up an account on IMDb just to warn people not to watch this movie. I failure to understand how this movie was made as i saw from review for 6 million dollars. I don't believe. The action scenes felt so cheap and the acting horrible. The story was all over the place and was not interesting. Music felt like fake orchestra. This should also be example to why sound is important for movies. The sound fx, very low fi and old sounding. The sound mix was so bad in places that I could not understand words, especially outside scenes. please don't waste time on this movie, I have no idea why it was made.

I like Dolph Lundgren & Low-budget Action B-movies but this one was ridiculously cheap, like filmed on a camcorder cheap & everywhere moves at such a slow lifeless pace that it felt like a dream lol.

Dolph lundgren looked in pain, probably due to a bad back, so he's stiff & wooden so the fights are slow moving & completely lifeless with no urgency at all.

For an action film it's dead, nothing is threatening & nothing is fast 'N' furious because everyone moves at a snail's pace.

Did not expect much in the first place before watching 'Maximum Security'. As said with a few films reviewed recently, it sounded interesting, but it did look like a not very well made, ridiculous and by the numbers film with not particularly good actors, although Dolph Lundgren is watchable in other things.

Saw 'Maximum Security' anyway out of curiosity, being intrigued by the idea and having been a lot of low-budget films recently (most not very good to put it lightly). Seeing it, 'Maximum Security' turned out to be more or less, make that exactly even, what was expected. Except worse. It doesn't even start off well, not much grabs the attention. The film got even worse very quickly and never recovered or improved. Actually got pretty much worse as it progressed.

On a visual level, 'Maximum Security' looked shoddy. Drab and simplistic, with haphazard editing, far from slick photography and very artificial-looking effects

The sound is very poorly recorded (one doesn't expect a film from 2017 to sound like something from 50 years or so before), the music is one-note and repetitive and the direction has no sense of atmosphere or pacing, nothing to be thrilled by and nothing much engaging.

'Maximum Security's' script is awkward-sounding and ponderous, with lines that do make one cringe. A lot of it is gibberish and juvenile, with a stilted improvisatory feel that shouldn't have made it past draft stages.

On top of that, the story goes through the motions with no tension, suspense or thrills, a lot of intelligence-insulting ridiculousness, implausibility and pacing so dull that it makes a reasonably short length much longer. The action sequences are more preposterous and by the numbers than they are thrilling or fun, that is when they are used, for such a title, idea and cover 'Maximum Security' is very short on the quantity of the action. The terrible way they look also hinder them. A few of the stunts are okay but nothing more than that.

Characters are basically every stereotype in the book it seems and are one-dimensional caricatures with no likeability or development and with the inability to behave logically. The acting is very poor, with Dolph Lundgren (who can be watchable) looking uncomfortable, even then he is the least bad actor here. Even Corbin Bernson is not good. The ending makes no sense and the climactic moments are rushed, anti-climactic and things feel poorly tied up, with too much happening stupidly and too easily.

Overall, a mess. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Did the Waynes brothers have something to do with this? Great parody if that's what it was meant to be. Get stoned then watch this. Honestly... 1. Two gas tanks of sleeping gas to put all guards in the prison to sleep. 2. Fight scenes are as the actors were wasted drunk. 3. Guy uses a heating torch to cut through a vault door. Then he switched to a grinder, thought he was gonna pull nail file next. 4. In a Mexican prison they leave armed inmates with 5 mil and walk out with 15. 5. They waltzed in to the prison as 2 electricians and a nurse.

Seriously, light a big fatty and laugh your ass off at the stupidest writing I have ever seen.

Come on Dolph I know these are newbie amateur morons but your fans deserve better. Next time walk away dude, no shame in that.

A friend of mine told me, after I watched the movie, that production broke down, because of money issues. He thought the movie would never get finished when he read that. So you can say in a way, good for them they found a way to finish it, but you can also say, a shame it got made under this circumstances at all. And even Dolph can't save it.

Not to mention an ending, that only makes sense if you know the production issues. Also an anti-climactic scene with the villain, that makes him look like a boy scout. But again, everything making sense when you think about the money issues. Then again, does that play a role in your "enjoyment" of the movie? At least there are some nice action scenes/stunts ...

The film is entertaining, but not exceptional in any particular ways.

The film is well acted, and it's shame it is sold as a big action set piece for Lundgren. It is more of suspense thriller. Lundgren play a reckless robber and does a good job. However the fight scene I found to be quite average, I have seen Lundgren do much better in recent years. There was something off and I can't quite put my finger on it. I have seen the director direct action and he is good and Lundgren is a seasoned vet. So I can't understand what happened.

The movie does have a solid script, the cast are uniformly good, well edited, lit, the sets are goods, and it moves.

For a Lundgren film, it is much superior compared to many of recent Lundgren outputs a lot less good compared to his recent gems.

No spoilers. Watching the movie itself would be a spoiler. I genuinely could not believe how bad it was. Acting was worse than porn. One liners must have been prepared by teenagers. Plot line was ... wait, what plot line?! Cannot believe Dolph Lundgren agreed to do this movie.

Yes People Yes we all know it's a B-Class movies most of them are good most of them are bad but this movie is alright unless i like it better then Last Dolph Lundgren movie he did as cameo is Altitude and Kindergarten Cop 2 this movie is a lot of thriller less action but their Is Action In Movie Less Fights Less Shooting. This Movie Isn't Bad Movie Like What You Think Of Rating Because 3.7 Rating believe me it's not that really really really bad film. I Thought Dolph Lundgren Role is good i liked his role his doing good in movie but not best movie or very underrated movie. it's just good for Dolph Lundgren and movie is thriller it's thrilling another characters are good his team. it's not a very slow movie it does little bit of talking but doesn't make movie BORING. it will get to thrilling point and action scenes. story of film is just simple it's not very long movie only goes for 1h 27min. Story Follows Team Went to Mexico The CIA enlists a professional thief's Jack (Dolph Lundgren) Ramon (Eddie J Fernandez)and Norma (Jocelyn Osorio) made a plan to Jack get him in prison the safe at Mexico's top secret Guantanamo Bay-style prison facility and retrieve sensitive information being stored there. safe has a lot money in it from Cartel Boss and another person is in team who was a Navy Seals Tank (Isaac C. Singleton Jr.) who is acting like quiet person is part of team after when all hell breaks lose cartel boss is after Team who is stealing his money their is action like Dolph Lundgren fight scenes their is not all of it their is shooting little explosions in movie

i thought Characters did good job Norma i thought she was a tough woman in movie. i rest noting to say as much. it's more of thriller then action but i would say it's good to see Dolph Lundgren in movie because he is in the all movie for good if he is not in all movie then the movie would suck it would be noting special. i thought this should have more action more of fight scenes more of that but their is fight scenes now i understand this has bad rating all that but hey give movie a watch it's not that bad it's not long long long movie you will ever see like it's 2 hour 15 minute long movie it's 1h 27 it's OK to see if your Dolph Lundgren fan and yes it's Unrealistic movie all movies do that. if lead hero dies in movies it would suck bad yeah ?? so their is a lot Unreal staff in movie not stupid or see any CGI in movie. believe me if your fan of Lundgren this movie is not much of action more of thriller but if your their to see lundgren because he is in all movie not like 5 minutes he is in all movie for good just go and see it i saw it for free on Netflix go and see it it's worth it for Dolph Lundgren only the movie is good but not's full of action their is action but not much of it but believe you won't get Disappointed at all because it's unreal or didn't had much in it please give it look if your Lundgren fan that's it

Lundgren can not act as in Rocky 4, because at that time the context of the film called for a character without emotion and with the least of speeches. In that film, he acted horribly, with no emotion in the scenes. Is it if he liked this job? As for the film, the story unfolds with facts without ties. Realize that it has never been easier to enter a penitentiary. Wow, how pathetic. I do not recommend!

a very thinly veiled attempt to insult our president and conservative Republicans it was a bad Idea a Bad movie a very hard to believe plot and even harder to believe those were real actors a total waste of time. it never works out well when you interject your politics into a move We watch movies for an escape from politics and all the other crap going on in the world not to have your views shoved on us.

I'm not a fan of Dolph Lundgren, but i watched this film 'Maximum Security' and thought that it was just O.K because t should have been a lot better. The film wasn't tense enough and it just was in my opinion a not really good film. Dolph only did a few films that were good but all his other ones are useless.

Waist of time. Elementary plot. No fantasy, no talent. Should I write more?

I have seen short films, which were shot with no budget have better story, acting and set decoration. From the very get go set designs were terrible, only to be surpassed by how terrible most actors were. They used a hall probably from a school as the cafeteria for a prison (Seriously??) The acting was so cringe worthy it all. That I had to give up 32 minutes through the film. And not to even mention that whole use of colour editing to make the film look more specific. This film fails to be a major movie on every level. It is sub par indie feature films and even some short films. Do your self a favor and save 30 minutes of your life and skip this.

Classic waste-timer action(??) movie, of US against mexican druglords.... If you cannot sleep, then give it a go....You would have probably forgotten it by the time you wake up!

Dolph Lundgren and his team of experts enters a prison to steal money from a drug dealer who then sends mercenaries to take them out. This film is typical Lundgren action film but there is more comedy to be had. This is an uneven film (as Lundgren tries to play down his talents for his character). This film is easily forgettable but there are some moments when it entertains especially in the last act. It would have been interesting to see Lundgren and his team in another film despite the ludicrous premise of this film. This may be a film for the true Lundgren fans so be forewarned. Larceny id too generic of a title for this film.

I hope the 18 producers got some money back for their investment ... They were more than HALF the total cast (28) which could be a record !

ThE "action" if you can call it that, was abysmal and the actors moved around some old warehouse like they were robots, and even the dialogue was incomprehensible.

A waste of time ...

I think 3.5/10 is more accurate but if I finish any of these below 4/10 movies on IMDB I round up

Personally, most things rated 3/10 or lower on IMDb I have probably turned off after 30 mins as they're unwatchable.

This film was not unwatchable, close but not. Sadly it's boring and very, very forgettable. I honestly can't remember how it started...

All of the actors looked bored here and it's a shame as its shot pretty well and a movie set in a prison should throw up some tension but it's all flat with bored performances

Even Dolph looks like he's bored here!

Shame as the ending could have been fun with a bit more of a build up.

I would not recommend this movie. Even Dolph fans should skip.

"Larceny" is what it is. It's a low budget Dolph Lundgren action movie. Nothing more. It looks nice and moves fast. It might overstay it's welcome a little bit but not by much. Dolph is pretty consistent in the kind performances he delivers. "Larceny" is no different. Most of the rest of the cast does its job pretty well. The stand out is the very dreamy Jocelyn Osorio. She makes this movie rather watchable.