Attack Force (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Keusch |
| Produced by | Joe Halpin Vlad Paunescu Steven Seagal Pierre Spengler |
| Written by | Joe Halpin Steven Seagal |
| Starring | Steven Seagal Lisa Lovbrand David Kennedy |
| Music by | Barry Taylor |
| Cinematography | Sonja Rom |
| Edited by | Jonathan Brayley |
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Clubdeal
Steamroller Productions |
| Distributed by | Steamroller, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States Romania United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
Attack Force is a 2006 American action film directed by Michael Keusch, and also written and produced by Steven Seagal, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Lisa Lovbrand and David Kennedy. The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on December 5, 2006.
Marshall Lawson (Steven Seagal) is the commander of an elite U.S. military unit. During an overseas assignment in Paris, Lawson loses all three of his men in a seemingly random attack on their hotel room. He takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia (Lisa Lovbrand) and his friend Dwayne (David Kennedy). Marshall uncovers CTX, a covert military drug so secret that an arm of the military headed by a man named Werner (Danny Webb) wants Marshall eliminated. Tia turns out to be one of the two military scientists who developed CTX.
Reina (Evelyne Armela O'Bami), the hooker who slaughtered Marshall's team, was under the influence of CTX. The drug gives its users superhuman strength and agility, but also irrevocably drives them to violence. The other co-inventor of CTX is Aroon (Adam Croasdell), now a Paris night club owner. Aroon has plans to release the CTX into the Paris' water supply, which would turn the city's residents into deranged killers. Marshall, Tia, and Dwayne must stop Aroon and Werner before that happens.
Filming took place at Castel Film Studios in Bucharest, Romania from January 7 to March 8, 2006.
When the film was first announced under the name Harvester, the plot description described a significantly different scenario than the one in the finished film; the villains were described as aliens with actress Ileana Lazariuc listed as "alien queen." In an email exchange between Seagalogy author Vern and co-writer Joe Halpin prior to the release of Attack Force, Halpin confirmed that although the movie had been written with a sci-fi element, it had been shot in two ways: one explained the villain's actions as the work of European mobsters, and the other explained them as the work of aliens. Asked if the alien plot elements would be present in the final cut, Halpin answered "Who knows," explaining that the producers and Seagal would come to an agreement in post-production. In the finished film, the villains are explained to be gangsters, and no reference is made to any extraterrestrial origin.
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