Paré stars as a former Navy SEAL trying to rescue his wife from a terrorist group who fled with her to North Africa after he attempted to thwart their attack on a Greek airport.

Due to the site's sensitive nature, the shotlist had to be modified to omit certain background locations, which could have revealed the position of military forces protecting it.

[5] To save on expenses, stock footage was used, most prominently during the car chase, which is in large part recycled from Killing Streets, an earlier Golan production where Paré and Israeli actor Gabi Amrani also appear.

[8] Billy Drago admitted to finding his character virtually indistinguishable from the ones he had previously portrayed in Delta Force 2 and Death Ring, adding that he played them as one and the same in his mind.

In Toronto and Ottawa, it was released in a double feature with another Damian Lee production, the erotic thriller A Woman Scorned starring Shannon Tweed.

During the film's Canadian run, media watchdog Mediafilm—historically close to the Catholic church—excoriated its "bellicist spirit" and director Golan's "brand of demagogy rooted in crude pro-Americanism.

"[17] Upon its arrival on U.S. home video, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram rated it one and a half star on a scale of one to five, commenting that "the leads are OK and the effects aren't bad, but the script is drivel.

[19] Robert Pardi of TV Guide wrote that the filmmakers "deserve applause for the dynamic action scenes seen here", but found fault with the picture's "irritating gung-ho patriotism and its lip-smacking preoccupation with Marcy's abduction into white slavery".

Writing for the Israeli cinema compendium Casting a Giant Shadow, Zachary Ingle criticized Golan for, as he had already done with The Delta Force, once again rehashing his early hit Operation Thunderbolt, with all three films even using the same Athens setting.