An elite security team races against time to extract a colleague from a high-tech, inescapable prison.
Suspenseful and high-octane. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Starz and Plex (free).
What we could confirm fits an R: strong violence and some strong language.
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Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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