In Hell

In Hell
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Directed by	Ringo Lam
Produced by	Danny Lerner John Thompson David Varod
Written by	Eric James Virgets Jorge Alvarez Steve Latshaw Les Weldon
Starring	Jean-Claude Van Damme Lawrence Taylor Marnie Alton Malakai Davidson Billy Rieck
Music by	Alexander Bubenheim
Cinematography	John B. Aronson
Editing by	David M. Richardson
Distributed by	Millennium Films
Release date(s)	June 14, 2003
Running time	96 mins
Country	USA
Language	English

In Hell is a 2003 American action film directed by Ringo Lam, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lawrence Taylor. It is the third collaboration between Van Damme and Hong Kong filmmaker Ringo Lam.

Plot

Kyle LeBlanc (Van Damme) is an American working overseas in Russia. When he hears his wife being attacked over the phone, Kyle rushes home to find that he's too late. The man who killed his wife is found not guilty on lack of evidence. So Kyle takes the law into his own hands, and kills the man to avenge his wife's death. He is sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Russian prison he is sent to is tough, and the warden amuses himself by putting on fights where he fills his pockets with money by betting on the fights. Kyle begins to break and go crazy, so he is forced into these fights because the warden knows he is a sure thing. Kyle's new cellmate 451 (Lawrence Taylor) begins to make him think of what he is fighting for. With that, Kyle knows now he must fight another battle: the fight for inner peace. It is the only way he can become the man he once was. Eventually, a prison riot enables 451 to give Kyle the evidence of all the murders that have happened in this prison for the past 20 something years that he planned to expose to the US government. Even though the guards were able to get the prisoners under control, 451 shows Kyle a secret passage to the prison garage for their next move. When two guards take Kyle to that garage, 451 launched an attack and killed one of them while Kyle holds the other at gunpoint and pinned him down to the ground using a vehicle and handcuffs after taking the key to free for him. He also takes one of their outfits for a disguise and drives off in one of their cars while 451 stays behind to assassinate the warden for his misdeeds. His fate is unknown, but Kyle was managed to return to the US and expose the prison's actions. Three months later, the prison was closed down.

Cast

• Jean-Claude Van Damme – Kyle LeBlanc
• Lawrence Taylor – 451
• Marnie Alton – Grey LeBlanc
• Malakai Davidson - Malakai
• Billy Rieck – Coolhand
• Jorge Luis Abreu – Boltun
• Lloyd Battista – General Hruschov
• Michael Bailey Smith – Valya
• Robert LaSardo –Usup
• Carlos Gómez – Tolik
• Chris Moir – Billy Cooper
• Paulo Tocha – Victor

Inaccuracies

• In the Russian legislation there is no such term as "life in prison without parole". Each life convict has a right for parole after serving a 25 years term.
• The life sentence was made without referring to the Russian Court of Cassation.
• In Russia convicts sentenced to Life are kept separate from other inmates. The same applies to any foreign convicts.

Locations

It was made on location in Bulgaria.

Home video releases

On October 20, 2003, DVD was released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment at the UK in Region 2.

It was released on Blu-ray for the first time in Norway in the year 2010.

External links

• In Hell at the Internet Movie Database
• In Hell at AllRovi