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Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

adonis98-743-186503 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)

ivo-cobra8 *SPOILERS* Sudden Death (1995) is a good 90's fun action film, that has flaws and many problems in it. Is the second Van Damme movie that was directed from Peter Hyams and a decent action Die Hard movie, definitely of one of my action fun favorite Van Damme movies and mostly because I love Die Hard movies and a Die Hard style flicks like Sudden Death. It is a really shame how underrated this action movie flick is. I never get tired of it or bored with it. This is the second time I actually recognize that Van Damme's character is a Canadian is this action Die Hard Flick. The first time his character was a Canadian was in Death Warrant when he played a Mounty cop. In here he plays a Canadian disgrace Fireman now turning a fire building inspector who takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostages including his daughter during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals. Still Van Damme's decent action movie in my opinion."Terror Goes Into Over-Time" Sudden Death is a 1995 American action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Darren McCord, a Pittsburgh firefighter who during a Stanley Cup finals game finds himself trying to save his daughter and the Vice-President, who have been taken hostage by a team of terrorists led by former government operative Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe). The film was directed by Peter Hyams from a story written by the wife of the then owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The majority of the film was shot during the 1994–95 NHL lockout in the Civic Arena, the actual arena of the Pittsburgh Penguins. That is the basic plot it is about a an ex fireman fighting terrorist in the hockey arena. I liked Whittni Wright and Ross Malinger who played Emily and Taylor, Darren's children, they were great.This movie how ever has a lot of mayor problems, problems that I do have with the film. Which is also one of the reasons it wasn't my favorite Van Damme movie as a child. I think this is the first time I do not see Van Damme's martial arts and his spine kicks. I hated the twist! Dorian Harewood should have played the good guy and not the bad guy at the end. The fight choreographer still has horribly done fight doubles/stand-ins during the fights, which are very noticeable and take away from the fight scenes. You can easily tell, that this is not Van Damme in so many of the fight scenes. The pacing is still not that good. Too many useless stuff like the cops outside who weren't interesting. The 'good luck' that the main character got throughout (the gun shooting but "Oh, it's Empty", the game going into Sudden Death at the last couple of seconds so this No Explosion) and etc. made me "Call Bullshit" quite a few times, making that kind of stuff not enjoyable, and this took me out of the flick quite a few times. A couple of nice explosions and a good role by Van Damme & Powers Boothe, doesn't make a great movie'.I like this movie but honestly I think Double Impact and even Kickboxer are better movie than this. I like the Hockey game and That Van Damme's character does everything in his power to safe the hostages including all people in the hockey arena. But personally to me this movie did not felt a real Die Hard movie. I think Die Hard is still better movie. A good ideas was also used in this movie including nice shootouts. The helicopter crashed in the hockey arena with Joshua Foss in it. Van Damme's character realized right away what happened and try to spoiled the terrorists plans. I like that he was looking for the bombs. I like that the movie was set in Pittsburgh and not New York or Washington D.C./: Those are one of the reasons why I like this movie and the rating, this movie get's by me is a 7, the ideas in this movie very terribly. As a Van Damme fan I like it.7/10 Grade: C- Studio: Universal Pictures, Shattered Productions Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, Whittni Wright, Ross Malinger, Dorian Harewood, Kate McNeil, Michael Gaston, Audra Lindley, Brian Delate, Faith Minton, Manny Perry, Brian Hutchison Director: Peter Hyams Producers: Howard Baldwin, Moshe Diamant Screenplay: Gene Quintano Story by Karen Elise Baldwin Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 50 Mins. Budget: $35.000.000 Box Office: $64,350,171

Maziun *SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS"Sudden death" is another one of those "Die hard" clones . Some of them were good ,some were bad. Unfortunately this one falls into the second category. I don't mind the lack of originality. However the plot is so ludicrous it was almost doomed to fail even as a brainless action movie. According to writer Randy Feldman, he wrote the first draft of the screenplay for the movie as a comedy / action movie parody. The movie was later rewritten as a serious action movie. That fact itself should be a warning for the viewer… The only scene that remained in the finished film was the scene with the penguin mascot (one of the most laughable scenes I have ever seen). A disgraced 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. The screenplay is so stupid that kills any possible tension. • Why the filmmakers decided to make the hostage the Vice President of USA ? Why not have the terrorist attack the President of USA ? • Why the terrorists would choose a Stanley Cup final to carry out their operation ? • Furthermore , If you were planning an elaborate almost military criminal operation, why choose a Game 7 ? Why not Game 5 or 6 ? • Vice President is in attendance and the security is tight. Yet JCVD seems to go where he wants with no visible ID. He even wanders around the arena defusing bombs, no-one stops him aside from the occasional bad guy who tries to kill him. • It also seems that the bad guys had no problems planting bombs all over the arena and nobody from the security noticed them. • Access to the elevator is controlled by the Head Chef... Furthermore the security guys are too dumb to check the newcomers for hidden guns or bombs. Secret service agents have rarely been so incompetent. • The story at the beginning with the little girl dying in JCVD arms had NOTHING to do with the rest of the movie. It would make sense if JCVD for example was afraid of fire or failure and had to fight his fear at some point of movie (think "Cliffhanger" and the opening scene). • I can somewhat buy the fact that an ex-fireman knows something about explosives , but it doesn't explain how does he knows martial arts so good. If he was a cop that would make sense , but an ex-fireman ? • Why the audience inside the hockey stadium is oblivious to the situation despite many explosions around them ? • Why the bad guy in mascot costume didn't simply kill JCVD daughter ? Why he brought it out to Foss ? He could kill her and hide the body somewhere , it's a big stadion overall. • The girls in women's bathroom didn't noticed the death body ? • Why despite many explosions outside the stadium there are NO journalists , media , TV reporters etc etc ? Nobody saw them or nobody thinks there interesting ? • Who exactly Foss is ? It's never really explained. • Why didn't the black FBI agent (the traitor) simply killed JCVD instead of playing games with him ? • The twist with Foss waiting for the end of extra time (Sudden death) to kill all the people in the stadium is just laughable. • I have never seen people move in such an orderly and polite fashion where they are allegedly in fear for their lives.Some unbelievable moments : Nobody in a hockey mascot costume can see too much or move too fast, so they definitely can't fight. The fact that JCVD almost loses the fight is pure comedy gold . Also, a helicopter's lift is always in a direction nearly parallel to the rotor axis, so it cannot come close to maintaining a position where its nose is straight up. In such a position it would move violently sideways (the rotor leading) and fall rapidly. Oh , JCVD ends up on the ice as the goalie at one point, making a key save !The little kids are terribly annoying. The acting is substandard . Powers Booth overacts his terribly underwritten role. The characters are poorly written and paper-thin.Nobody is really interesting or likable. The action isn't completely unimaginative , yet the stupidity of plot simply destroys any excitement. Not too much of karate here , some might find it disappointing. With stupid plot , lack of martial art sequences and interesting villains this movie doesn't have much to offer. I have to admit that "SD" has decent budget , special effects and is nicely directed. Some of the jokes and dialogues are actually very funny. It doesn't change the fact that I recommend it only to die-hard fans of JCVD and hockey. I give it 3/10.

Minahzur Rahman A true 90s action movie. If you're a Van Damme fan, then this film is really for you to see. It's one of his best movies out there. The story is that a bunch of baddies plan to take control of an Ice Hockey stadium, and hold the vice-president as hostage, so they can demand a large sum of ransom. But there is only one guy known as "Darren McCord" (Van Damme), a former firefighter, that stands in their way from achieving their goal, and little do they know that this guy "McCord" is no ordinary guy - he can fight! This movie is one of Van Damme's best. I liked everything about it from start to finish. I don't think anyone else could've played his role any better. The movie has plenty of action and fighting, and keeps the viewer interested throughout the entire movie. I recommend Sudden Death to anyone planning to watch an action movie. You won't feel disappointed. I feel it's a little underrated. It's one of my favourite action movies of the 90s. Maybe it's not as good as Die Hard, but still "Die Hard" nonetheless. Definitely, in my top ten action movies during the 90s. I really like the title, Sudden Death, of this movie.