The movie was filmed in nine weeks, between April 20 and June 18, 1992, but it wasn't released until February 4, 1994, more than a year and a half after it was finished. Besides releasing all of the later DVD versions of the movie in cropped 1.33:1 pan and scan format, instead of 2.35:1 widescreen, in which the movie was originally filmed, Miramax and Dimension Films also went and cut it down by five minutes before it was released theatrically on only eight hundred screens. This movie was originally much harder, and featured greater violence and language, and most of the cuts were made in those scenes, because studios wanted to make it safer and more appealing to the general moviegoing audience. The uncut version of the movie was never released.
The first of three movies released in 1994 to feature Sir Patrick Stewart. The others being The Pagemaster (1994) and Star Trek: Generations (1994).
This is the second movie which features Doctor Dré, Ed Lover and Denis Leary. The first being Who's the Man? (1993).
As Armor is kicking Cole on the ground, he says he feels like the Los Angeles Police Department. This alludes to the 1991 incident where, during a traffic stop, Rodney King was brutally assaulted by L.A. officers Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Rolando Solano.