“Corrective Measures” (*1/2 out of four) was a paint-by-numbers action thriller set in the world’s most dangerous maximum-security prison in which escalating tension between the sadistic warden (Michael Rooker at his hammy worst) and some of the various criminals (Bruce Willis, Daniel Cudmore, and others) and the prison guards (Kat Ruston, Matthew Kevin Anderson, and others) threatens to boil over. Virtually nothing you haven’t seen in 1,000 other (and better) prison movies but ridiculous special-effects showdown at the end seems to come out of left field and seems like it was borrowed from an “X-Men” movie! An adaptation of Grant Chastain’s graphic novel but this should have undergone its own “corrective measures” before the cameras started rolling.

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