This is a Chinese-American production directed by Scott Waugh, winner of the "10 Directors to Watch" award at the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival and also for the films Need for Speed and the latest in The Expendables saga to be released in September.
The screenplay was written by Arash Amel, known for being the director and screenwriter of the film Grace of Monaco and more recently for the screenplay of the film based on the life of Nigerian basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo, whose title was Rise.
Framed in the genre of action with some suspense, the plot takes place in Iraq, where the war veteran Dragon Luo must save the staff of a refinery threatened by mercenaries, for that he has a group of special operations soldiers.
This must cross the so-called Highway of Death to reach the Green Zone, the security site of the area, safe and sound, but not everything goes as it should be and some passengers, including Professor Cheng who has the codes to activate the refinery is kidnapped and Dragon is responsible for rescuing her.
In this task he meets Chris, another war veteran who, due to plot twists, goes from being an enemy to a partner in the imposed task and between the two of them they face the mercenaries in an unequal fight.
Jackie Chan, known for roles of this type and John Cena, former WWF wrestler and with an extensive film career in films also of this type, winner in 2017 of the Cinemacon Award as Action Star of the Year, embody the main characters, accompanied by Pilou Asbaek, Amadeus Serafini, Rachael Holoway and Tim Man among others.
It was budgeted at $80 million and was released in early July 2023 on the Netflix platform, however this was a movie grenaded in 2018 and boxed in for a variety of reasons.
For those who like this type of genre will get a good dose of fights, chases and shootouts.