[3] Mike McBride and Roy Brown, two former Navy SEALs, and their associate Hunter Whiley, a former DEA agent, have renounced their careers as public servants to become private contractors, nicknamed the "Shadow Warriors".

Whiley and Brown decide to consult with their longtime friend Andy Powers, who has remained a government employee but joins them anyway, motivated by what he expects to be a hefty reward should Sarkisian be alive.

Blinded by vengeance, McBride launches a lone wolf assault on a Middle Eastern camp controlled by fledgling terrorist Hameed Jamal, identified by the FBI as an associate of Reynolds/Sarkisian.

Following the commercial success of Assault on Devil's Island, a regular series was considered but financial details could not be hashed out and TNT decided to proceed with a standalone, feature-length sequel.

[4] While the first movie was filmed close to Hogan's Tampa Bay home like many of his works, this one was shot in British Columbia, much to the star's displeasure.

[5] The film had the working title of Shadow Warriors II: Hunt for the Death Merchant,[6] which it kept for early Canadian television showings on Superchannel.

[5] Death Mountain was one of three shows to benefit from an experimental agreement between the BC film industry's main trade unions, enabling projects with less than CDN$4 million in salary expenses to hire at reduced rates.

[8] However, Hogan complained that a sudden rush to the Greater Vancouver area had caused those rates to soar exponentially during pre-production, leaving him unconvinced that similar results could not have been achieved at home.

[5] The supporting cast was not as deep as in the original, and mostly consisted of local actors to satisfy Canadian content requirements,[5] although it did feature Emmanuelle Vaugier in an early bit part.

[9] Montreal-based Alliance Communications returned to helm the sequel, and added Crescent Entertainment of North Vancouver to oversee local production.

[6] The Middle Eastern terrorist camp was recreated among sand piles on the east side of Richmond, and the climactic battle against Sarkisian was staged in Britannia Beach.

Producer Doug Schwartz and co-stars Carl Weathers, Shannon Tweed and Martin Kove all professed to be impressed by Steiner's star potential.

[20] Mike Duffy of the Detroit Free Press was not as indulgent, and dismissed the film as "another [of Hulk Hogan's] rock 'em sock 'em eye candy garbage dump of silly action-adventure clichés.

"[22] According to a 2019 publication, due to its potentially stereotypical depiction of Middle Eastern terrorists, the film was among a number of programs to be withdrawn from TNT's catalogue following an awareness campaign on the subject by minority groups.