Writers Randy Walker, Michael Albanese and Ed Arneson are all retired Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officers.
Robert Patrick and Kristanna Loken both played evil terminators in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) (respectively).
The training areas shown in the film all depict the logo of the Beretta firearms company. However, no Beretta firearms are used in the movie.
Cutler's long arm of choice is a Bushmaster Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR). This was the rifle's first appearance in film.
The real LAPD SWAT officers, who created the original story for this project in the early 90s, were not involved in pre-production, principal photography or post production of this film.