star rating represent saturday night friday night friday morning sunday night monday morning long time inmate twitch ( kurupt ) get himself transfer to a tough prison than the re open alcatraz . he claim it to be close to his lady but his real motif be a bit more grandiose . there he cross path with burke ( bill goldberg ) a bulky prisoner who can take care of himself . twitch and despite be less muscular and be just a mouthy and be pretty much the same . but there be a gang war brewing between the black and hispanic inmate that explode into a hostile takeover of the prison when the black gang leader be shoot dead and the finger point at burke . but the sh . t really hit the fan when the real killer and leader of the hispanic and cortez ( robert madrid ) take twitch girlfriend and burke daughter hostage . steven seagal doesn not do sequel ( reportedly very oppose to the idea of under siege 2 and only agree to do it on the condition the film company he be with at the time let direct his own movie ) so despite this be a dvd sequel and the lead role this time round go to bill golberg ( steve doesn not even appear in some of the stock footage from the first film that appear towards the end . ) but there a reason he hasn not do much work since universal soldier 2 and that because he not much of an actor and and not much of an action star either and manage a character that begin a very dark and brood but unsubtly turn into a standard action hero awkwardly quip off dull one liner . support wise and veteran from the first film and kurupt and tony plana and have merely jump at the chance of extra work . this be a film that try to copy the style of the original quite well and with the dim lighting and dark shadow and rap music playing over a lot of it . it do this quite well and unfortunately it can not contend with an unengaging hero and an equally cardboard villain and an apathetic story that the maker do very much seem to have make up a they go along . .