One hundred hit men are locked in a prison with a thousand guns and the last three left alive gets ten million dollars. Sounds a bit to me like a recipe for disaster. Sounds also like a pathetic excuse for some pointless violence. The violence on one hand may seem pointless, but I feel that there is a lot more to this movie than simple pointless movie, and those who simply argue about the shamelessness of the violence in this movie will have missed the point.My friend compared it to the Italian movies where in the end everybody is dead. We must remember that everybody (except for two people) who are in this prison are all there for one reason, and that is because they upset the syndicate. Instead of just killing them, they told them that they must earn their freedom, but none can. Even Moon (Ice T), the syndicate boss who organised this little event, does not escape. The only people who escape are a little girl and an accountant that was dragged in there because she took too many photos.My friends commented that the dialogue in this movie was quite bad, but I feel that some of the dialogue extracts the theme to the movie. At the beginning, some of the hit men are sitting in a Cadalac and are swearing, and another does not appreciate this. The comment that comes out is the more that something is said, the less meaning that it has. This is the theme of the movie: the more you do something the less meaning that this deed has. These people are all killers, and as they have killed so much, the act of killing has simply lost all meaning. Moon says that the money is there because there is nothing else to entice them to do anything, but the mere existence of the money is not going to stop them from killing each other, it just encourages it. The whole idea of only having three people left is also very interesting, as it comes out as to who these three people are and they consider whether those that they are associating with are the three, or if Moon must be one of the three as well.The violence in this movie is not explicit, rather there is simply a lot of killing, and this emphasises the attitudes of these characters: they will kill another human without another thought. As such, none of them can be redeemable. It is interesting to notice that the accountant is the only one to survive (excluding the little girl who spent most of the movie in the car) and she was the only one who was not a killer, nor did she have any connection with the syndicate. The only reason that she was here was because she had evidence to convict the syndicate of many crimes, yet she escaped. Evil is so ingrained in society, that a few pictures could simply tear it apart. This prison, the symbol of justice in society, was built and is controlled by the syndicate, the symbol of crime in society. This paradox is the paradox of society - is there such as thing as an incorruptible judge? This movie is not a movie about pointless violence, but rather about the darkness of the human soul, corruption in society and they way that we become desensitised to the wrongs that we do. It is actually quite a good movie, and Moon is the type of character that Ice-T plays very well.

The real reason to see this film is the stunningly stone-cold performance by Michael Halsey as a gunman who has finally had enough of the dark side of life, but who needs to ply that close to the chest in order to survive an impossible situation.The situation is actually rather allegorical, a fact driven home by the absurdist intervention of a seven year old girl who plays a pivotal role at the end. This allegorical touch actually lifts the film from being just another Albert Pyun bloodbath and yet somehow avoids becoming just another Albert Pyun urban fantasy. The camera work and editing is also superior to what we've come to expect from Pyun.But it is Michael Halsey's show, really, and needs to be watched as that, as a tour de force from a largely unnoted actor of considerable talent.

Just one quick correction - the other comment says that Ice-T plays Marcus, that's not the case. He plays the ring leader in this movie the role of Vincent Moon.This movie seems to be made from one of those ideas that a bunch of drunken friends all put together late one night at the bar. The premise sounds like fun, which is why I took a chance on it through my digital video on demand, and it is. Vincent - Ice-T - is one of 100 shady characters working for a group he calls "the syndicate." (How original right?) The syndicate has a grudge against all of them and so has given Vincent the go ahead on his plan to work it out.At the very beginning of the movie we learn about Moon's prison - apparently he backed it financially or something and he has the commissioner in his office in the prison. He kills him (not a spoiler since it happens in the first five minutes) and then basically has the prison to himself the day before it opens for inmates.The general plot is that 100 enter and only the strongest survive. They are all given weapons (guns, shotguns, baseball bats and anything else they can find to use in the finished and almost active prison) and they run around for 6 hours until only 3 are left. Those three win a prize and get to go free - those are the rules Ice-T (Moon) gives at the beginning.But the plot doesn't really matter. It's just an excuse for Ice-T to play a bad ass - and to watch people beat and blow each other away for two hours. They do try to mix in some interesting personal notes of the people that have betrayed the syndicate which does keep it interesting. Overall the movie's not one I'd watch with my wife, but if you're sitting around with a bunch of guys, or have a need to feel the testosterone pumping check it out and give it a whirl.

Yeah this movie is funny and Ice-T was a big gun in this movie. good end.Ice-T's rap skills are very good.he is not good actor,but not bad too.average.this movie is strange.i have seen Johnny Mnemonic where Ice-T played J-Bone.it's was Keanu Reeves Movie.Keanu Is Good Actor.Mean Guns is different than all other movies i ever seen. Ice-T is my idol from music.i love his album original gangster and his song Cop Killer.he is the best rapper ever.i have heard that Ice-T wrote a book and it's called the ice opinion.all that makes is pure gold actually,but movies sometimes bad i don't mean 'Mean Guns' i mean 'New Jack City'.Ice-T's only real rival in rap is Krs One.