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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

A former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals. Sudden Death is another classic and well made 90's Jean Claude Van Damme film that not only it benefits from his charisma but also from the late Powers Boothe as the main villain who is kinda the Die Hard type of villain and pretty good to be perfectly honest. The action hits the roof and the movie definitely keeps you entertained and at the edge of your seat and in the end? It's a big blast.. (10/10)

Former fireman Darren McCord (Jean Claude Van Damme) must try to save the Vice President and a group of hostages from a bunch of terrorists led by Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe). A bad situation becomes worse for McCord when the terrorists capture McCord's daughter and hold her hostage as well and McCord finds himself in a race against time to stop the terrorists from carrying out their atrocities before the Ice Hockey game finishes...From an early stage it becomes clear that Sudden Death is another variant of Die Hard, but to its credit Sudden Death still manages to be fairly entertaining for the most part. Director Peter Hyams plays very safe with the material and basically sticks to the tried and tested formula that Die Hard brought to us 7 years earlier. This isn't intended as a criticism and as the saying goes 'If it ain't broke don't fix it' so I can't blame Hyams for playing things safe.The downside in playing things safe is that this film is naturally going to suffer by comparison; the film lacks the tight and claustrophobic direction that McTiernan brought to Die Hard and it lacks some of the dry humour that we saw in Die Hard. Van Damme is no Bruce Willis and despite this being one of his better acting performances (he shows slightly more range than in many of his other films) he is still a bit wooden. Boothe is much better and his sociopathic portrayal here is quite menacing at time, but he's too similar to Rickman's character in Die Hard and it's hard not to see Boothe here and feel as though you're watching a slightly weaker re-working of Hans Gruber. There's no point in really mentioning the supporting cast as they are merely window-dressing and people who show their faces and spout a few lines of dialogue, but no-one else is really developed enough for me to be able to form a meaningful critique. The kids in this film are OK aside from one scene where they seemed to argue for ages which got on my wick a bit. Sudden Death is slightly less action packed than many of Van Damme's other films which may upset some of Van Damme's fans, but that didn't really bother me as I still found the film to be fairly enjoyable overall; yes I knew what it was doing and where it was going, but taking it for what it is; a disposable piece of mindless entertainment then I can safely say that I wasn't disappointed by the time the credits started rolling...

What could have been another routine DIE HARD rip-off, along the lines of the similar but atrocious thriller BLAST, turns out to be a supremely entertaining slice of action, delivered with just the right pace by experienced director Peter Hyams. In fact this is one of the better Van Damme films I've seen so far, with excellent fight scenes and an involving, if clichéd, plot. The story is nothing new, it's basically just DIE HARD relocated to a hockey match. Much like UNDER SIEGE was DIE HARD relocated on a boat, and CON AIR was DIE HARD relocated on a plane. But as the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and the formula works. It works very well in fact, which is why these sort of films are my favourite actioners. Van Damme runs around corridors, doing heroic things like defusing bombs, while the baddies shoot people. That's the main thrust of the story anyway, little aided by stupid dialogue and clichéd locations and fight scenes. However, it is perhaps the fight and chase scenes which make this film so engaging.Firstly, the fights are all bordering on the absurd, with Van Damme taking on a person in a penguin suit at the beginning. Virtually all of the bad guys in this film die bizarre deaths, one guy has a chicken bone shoved through his neck, another guy is ignited with lighter fluid from a water pistol, yet another guy has his hand drilled and some other unfortunate soul is processed through a bottle filling machine. These are the kind of death scenes I love in action films, where the villain dies in a horrible way, and there is no cutting away from the moment either. This film revels in the violence. The acting is all on the sub standard side, as to be expected, but to be fair, the cast all perform adequately. The kids aren't too annoying, and Powers Boothe is a smooth if unrealistic villain, whose motivations aren't really thought out or explained in the film. He does a great Alan Rickman impression though.Van Damme is his typical single-expressioned self, but that persona is fine for this role, and he performs brilliantly in the fight scenes as usual. His makeup is good, too. The baddies are all typical heavy types, like we've seen in these films billions of times before. There must be a special acting school for 'generic stock villains' somewhere in America. The shootouts and explosions are all handled well, and the special effects technicians deserve credit, apart from some shoddy digital effects which prove to be highly unrealistic. The editing is spot on, too, the viewer always knows what's happening and when, but the scenes are all served up in an interesting way. Basically this film is for fans of the genre, who know what they're going to get. You just need to sit back, switch off your brain to ignore the many plot discrepancies, and enjoy the increasingly contrived situations that Van Damme is in (he even gets to play hockey at one point!). I love it.

Sudden Death (1995): Dir: Peter Hyams / Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Booth, Raymond J. Barry, Ross Malinger, Whittni Wright: Title describes its box office results. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a firefighter who quit his job but unfortunately not the film industry. He emerges as a security guard at a stadium and takes his two children to a hockey game attended by the President but Powers Booth holds the V.I.P. group hostage and demands money or bombs will go off at the end of the game. Perhaps he should have demanded a higher salary for allowing himself to be part of this crap fest. Before long Van Damme's daughter ends up in the isolation booth and many bone breaking battles follow. Production succeeds where story fails. Director Peter Hyams previously made Time Cop with Van Damme and together they prove that two heads are not necessarily better than one. Booth is laughable as this villain whose ass will get kicked. It is just that so many others are ahead of him in the wait line. Raymond J. Barry is wasted as the President. Ross Malinger plays Van Damme's son who stays put when told. Perhaps had he left then he would have avoided any further involvement in one of the year's worst films. Whittni Wright plays Van Damme's daughter who laughably yet tearfully informs Booth that her dad will hand his ass to him. Pointless wretch that should be met with sudden death. Score: 1 / 10