- Complete Monster: Warden Willard Hobbes is the operator of "The Tomb", an illegal, privately-run prison he boasts to be inescapable. Although his contracts require that prisoners be kept alive, Hobbes tortures inmates to near-death, locking the disobedient ones in a room with a powerful halogen light to painfully dehydrate their bodies. Unrelentingly cruel, when one inmate insults Hobbes he shoves a hose into the prisoner's mouth, stopping the water only just before he drowns, and lets his sadistic Dragon torture Ray Breslin around the clock. When the inmates begin to riot and Ray and his allies try to escape, Hobbes has his men use live ammunition on both the rioters and escapees.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The film made four times as much money internationally than it did in the United States, with the bulk of it coming from China. This is why its belated sequels, which went Direct-to-DVD in the US, saw theatrical screenings elsewhere and was made with the Chinese audience in mind.
- Ham and Cheese: Jim Caviezel clearly graduated from the Eric Roberts School of Slimy Villain Acting for his role.
- Moral Event Horizon: If Hobbes didn't cross it in his sadistic attempts to break Breslin, then his personal execution of Javed without batting an eye does.
- Narm: The Bowdlerised TV edit of the riot scene completely mutes out Javed and an inmate cussing each other out, making it appear as though they're so pissed off at each other that they resort to miming threats.
- Questionable Casting: 50 Cent as The Smart Guy.
- Special Effect Failure: Hobbes' getting blown up doesn't look too convincing.
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