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Plot summary
Detective Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme) confronts a maniac called the Sandman (Patrick Kilpatrick) in an abandoned house. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, the partner of a cop that the Sandman killed, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet. Van Damme redirects here. ...
Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison State Prison in California.
While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett (Cynthia Gibb) acts the role of his wife. Burke and Beckett don't care for each other much in the beginning. Cynthia Gibb (born December 14, 1963 in Bennington, Vermont, USA) is an American actress and former model who has starred in film and on television. ...
In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in an environment so dismal and filthy that it makes a public restroom in a New York City subway look like the Hilton.
But though he is surrounded by hostility and suspicion, Burke succeeds in befriending a few of the inmates, including Hawkins (Robert Guillaume) and Priest (Abdul Salaam El Razzac), who help him with the investigation. Robert Guillaume in 1980. ...
Meanwhile, more inmates are mysteriously murdered. Burke's cellmate is killed, and stone-faced prison guard DeGraff (Art LeFleur) puts Burke in solitary confinement, where he's interrogated and beaten.
As if the insult and injury that Burke endures were not enough, the Sandman ends up at Harrison. And it's later revealed that the prisoners are being murdered for their body organs. Back on the outside, Beckett attends a party given by Vogler (George Dickerson), the state's attorney general. George Dickerson (born 1933) is an American actor and poet. ...
Just as she's preparing to tell him about the slayings at the prison, Beckett receives a call from her computer whiz kid assistant, who identifies Vogler's henchman Keane (Jack Bannon) as the man behind the murders, which also involve Dr. Gottesman (Armin Shimerman), the surgeon who harvests the organs to be sold to people who are in desperate need of them. Jack Bannon is an actor from Los Angeles, California. ...
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The assistant's suspicions are confirmed when Vogler tries to kill Beckett. Burke begins an escape from the penitentiary, pursued by the Sandman and hundreds of angry inmates who have been set free and armed with the knowledge that Burke is a cop.
Burke and the Sandman have a final, brutal showdown in which Burke kicks the Sandman, head first, onto a spike, then breaks his jaw and kills him. And then Burke goes after Vogler, Keane, and Gottesma.
Critical & box office reception Death Warrant opened on September 14th, 1990 where most critics panned it immediately dismissing it as just another dumb action movie set in a prison.It hit #3 on the top ten box office chart with $5,019,902 from 1,089 theaters, and a $4,609 average.It went on to make $16,853,487 in total on a reported 5 million budget.Overseas it was even more popular grossing well over 35 million.Most fans consider Death Warrant one of Van Damme's better,earlier movies.
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