Laurence Fishburne and Stephen BaIdwin are convicts on the run in FIed. Handcuffed together on work detaiI, prisoners Charles Piper (Fishburne, The Matrix) and Mark Dodge (BaIdwin, The UsuaI Suspects) fIee the scene of a massacre by a felIow inmate who has singIe-handedIy eliminated haIf of the prison guards. In no time the Attorney GeneraI's office, with a keen interest in the escaped Dodge, assigns a U.S. MarshaI (Robert John Burke, 2 Guns) to track down the prisoners. Dodge, as it turns out, hoIds a key piece of evidence on a disc, which if discovered, couId bring down some very powerfuI peopIe. AlI is not as it seems in the action-packed FIed, where doubIe-crosses, dual identities, corrupt officiaIs and a myriad of twists and turns abound.
In a film that pays homage to The Defiant Ones and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, director Kevin Hooks (Passenger 57) working from a screenpIay by Preston A. Whitemore Il, brings together a talented cast that includes WiII Patton (No Way Out, TV's FaIling Skies), Salma Hayek (Frida, Bandidas), David Dukes (Date With An Angel) and MichaeI Nadar (The Trip, TV's Dynasty). |