SUDDEN DEATH has Jean Claude Van Damme playing Firefighter Darren Mccord, who after a personal crisis during a Fire in which he was unable to save a young girl is removed from active duty, he now works as a Fire Safety Officer and takes his kids to a Ice Hockey Game where he is working. The same night The V.P. of the USA also happens to be in attendance - but on that very night and at that very stadium a bunch of baddies led by a menacing Powers Boothe take the V.P. and his entourage hostage and it's up to Van Damme to save the day as usual.
SUDDEN DEATH is ludicrous and clichéd (it's an obvious Die Hard Rip off) but it's enormously entertaining although it was a flop on it's original release - It opened to just $4.8M during Christmas 1995 and ended up with only just over $20M in the U.S, but it did do somewhat better internationally, taking $64M by the end of its Worldwide release and it also did relatively well on home Video.
Directed and Photographed by Peter Hyams who also Directed Van Damme's 1994 Hit 'TIMECOP' and Produced by (at the time) the Owner of the Pittsburgh Penquin Hockey team.
It's all nonsense of course, but SUDDEN DEATH is one of Van Damme's best flicks!
Released by UNIVERSAL PICTURES.
**** out of *****
SUDDEN DEATH is ludicrous and clichéd (it's an obvious Die Hard Rip off) but it's enormously entertaining although it was a flop on it's original release - It opened to just $4.8M during Christmas 1995 and ended up with only just over $20M in the U.S, but it did do somewhat better internationally, taking $64M by the end of its Worldwide release and it also did relatively well on home Video.
Directed and Photographed by Peter Hyams who also Directed Van Damme's 1994 Hit 'TIMECOP' and Produced by (at the time) the Owner of the Pittsburgh Penquin Hockey team.
It's all nonsense of course, but SUDDEN DEATH is one of Van Damme's best flicks!
Released by UNIVERSAL PICTURES.
**** out of *****