All indoor prison scenes were shot in an old STASI prison in Berlin/Germany.
The script to this film was written ten years prior to filming as "The Rock" but there was another script with the same title that was filmed so this one had to wait ten years later to be done
Some aerial shots was taken from Michael Bay's film The Rock (1996) that got cut from that film.
The shot of the skydivers jumping out of the airplane is footage from Navy Seals (1990).
Nia Peeples performed all of her own stunts for the martial arts sequences
As of 2009, this is the only Steven Seagal film that is rated PG-13.
This was Steven Seagal's last film to be given a theatrical release until the upcoming Machete (2010). All of his other films in between were released directly to video.