Did anyone else nearly die laughing when Van Damme fought the mascot in the kitchen? Other funny scenes include anything with the villians (from their arrival to the hostage-taking) and the line "I didn't move Dad".
shareAnd when VanDamme's introducing his kids to that old security guard at the rink, 'this is my son tyler and my daughter emily'. you can't get more wooden than that. VanDamme + Kids = a lethal combination that makes me laugh every time i see this film.
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Fighting the penguin in the kitchen, particularly near the end where he is holding it up and the head is starting to be cut away, was comic genius, I was laughing so much!
shareI was rather sad what he did to that girl. First put her hand in the deep fryer, then show tabasco sauce in her eyes, then kick her few times in her breasts ( I'm a male, but it must hurt like hell ), then throw her in the dish-washer, where she was strangled and boiled at a same time! I know she was a villainess, but c'mon! She was woman, for Pete's sake, and meet more horrible death than any other of the terrorists...
shareseriously though, that was the best kitchen fight in any movie ever. i don't see how you could use kitchen stuff in a more appropriate way than the fight choreographers did in this. and to top it all off, SHE WAS IN THE PENGUIN COSTUME THE WHOLE TIME!!!!
shareWell, c, she DID start it :>)
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How about his little thing to his son while the goalie.
I (pinky) love (hugs himself) you (points to his son)
That is F u C k I n G corney
Comedy is: the special effects at the climax--you know, the helicopter bit. Dang, that ladder must weigh eight tons to remain hanging like that... I can think of at least three different ways to film the scene so it wouldn't have been so utterly embarrassing. (And yet Peter Hyams is the one working in Hollywood.)
Comedy is: "I didn't move, Dad! Even when things blew up, I didn't move!!" Yes, kid, congratulations. You're a deer in the headlights. Your little sister has more guts than you do.
Comedy is: Powers Boothe opening fire on his own career with an AK-47.
Comedy is: Van Damme's rescue plan, which requires a jawdropping number of feats based on split-second timing and pure luck. Even Arnold Schwartzenegger ("Commando") wouldn't try to sell us this mess.
"Sudden Death" wasn't as fall-on-you-butt-laughing funny as Van Damme's toy-train-in-a-basement-diorama disaster "Derailed," but only because it had a bigger budget.
Comedy is also when Van Damme kills the guy with the "plastic explosive"
"Bye-bye"
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your enemy's lover closest
And 2 floydspinky, in 2013 Peter Hyams and Van Damme reunited to make a film called "ENEMIES CLOSER", indeed, your line here has predicted that movie unintentionally by about 8 years, haha.
share2 Squishy, the "lack or presence of budget" for the absolute most part is NOT an indication of ANY movie's overall quality, and there have been masterpiece films and very good ones made with three or four figure budgets out there, it is the TALENT overall that counts, not how much money was spent on production.
shareAlso, how did it make you feel that Jean Claude Van Damme's character here was not a cop, special forces operative etc but a fireman or rather ex-fireman battling terrorists and winning at the end, in and of itself?
And on the other hand, the fact that he was also, in addition to being good at martial arts and weaponry, good at finding and defusing bombs, climbing heights etc, making weapons from everyday objects etc?
And I also think many critics would agree, the main problems with "Derailed" (2002) and why it was overall such a bad movie was NOT due to its lack of budget or financial problems. It was just overall a poorly made, badly edited, with lame acting etc, Van Damme shallow and stupid action movie that in addition to it all, even for this brainless and far from original movie type of category, was also highly unoriginal and that it even on a premise level and in some direct scene stealing, was a rip off of "Under Siege 2" (1995), just saying.
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