When the US President's daughter is kidnapped by a central Asian warlord, the CIA assembles a team of four female convicts to get her back, promising the quartet their freedom if they succeed. The justification for using such an unorthodox approach is somewhat improbable and definitely badly acted, and in truth comes down to "we can't knock-off The Expendables if the team isn't expendable".
In any case, after being stiltedly issued their instructions by Cynthia Rothrock (who is no better an actor now than she was in her 80s heyday), the team - a special forces veteran, a sniper, a demolitions expert and a former CIA operative turned assassin - head off engage in unconvincingly staged and badly acted action hi-jinks. More or less what you'd expect from an Asylum production, which this is. Overall, it's actually one of the better offerings from the home of low effort, but that's a very low bar to clear and should in no way be taken as meaning that it is actually good. It's not: the acting is frequently wooden, the plot is nonsense, and the action sequences mainly consist of people firing at other people who are off screen (though at least, unlike some Asylum films, the budget did actually stretch to showing the people who are getting shot at).
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