YMMV / Death Warrant

• Complete Monster:
  • Christian Naylor, aka "The Sandman", is a psychopathic Serial Killer who murdered the partner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Detective Louis Burke. Burke tracks the Sandman down to his new lair in Los Angeles to avenge him, where he finds at least one other female victim's remains. The Sandman is later sent to the prison where Burke went undercover and agrees with its corrupt officials to kill his nemesis. He takes the opportunity to release all the prisoners and starts a Prison Riot, which results in several deaths. The Sandman murders Burke's ally Priest with an axe before having a duel to the death with Burke.
  • Sergeant DeGraf is the sadistic, racist leader of the prison guards who loves to abuse his power. DeGraf agrees with corrupt state authorities to regularly kill prisoners to harvest their organs and sell them on the Black Market. DeGraf arranges with the prisoners Romaker and Keel to be the hitmen and has Dr. Gottesman perform the operations. When Burke uncovers their plan, DeGraf insists on being the one to kill Burke and later hunts down Burke and his two allies.
  • Dr. Gottesman is a failed medical practitioner using his job as a prison doctor to harvest organs. Ecstatic at the prospect of profit, Gottesman works with DeGraf to murder a huge number of inmates, the two using their underlings to silence any who catch wind of their plot.
  • Romaker and Keel are a pair of convicts who act as hitmen for Sergeant DeGraf in the organ harvesting scheme. They kill various snitches who revealed their plan to Burke, burning one alive in his cell. Romaker and Keel also carve up a transgender inmate who warned Burke that he was next to be killed for his organs.
• Magnificent Bastard: Hawkins and Priest are two senior prisoners known for their connections. Becoming allies to undercover officer Louis Burke after his arrival, the two arrange for him to sneak into the crooked prison guards' file room to uncover the truth behind the recent string of deaths. In the climax of the film, the two also use their knowledge of the jail's layout to lead Burke to safety, even at the cost of Priest's life.
• Narm Charm: If you're into Jean-Claude Van Damme or eighties-nineties action movies, it's delightful cheesy fun as it plays everything straight while not realizing how hackneyed most of its tropes are.

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