Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
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... View MoreIt's one of the most original films you'll likely see all year, which, depending on your threshold for certifiably crazy storylines, could be a rewarding experience or one that frustrates you.
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... View More'KILL 'EM ALL': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)The new action flick starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. In this film he plays a mysterious wounded man that enters a hospital looking for help, who's then pursued by an international gang trying to kill him. The movie also costars Autumn Reeser, Maria Conchita Alonso, Peter Stormare, Daniel Bernhardt, Paul Sampson, Mila Kaladjurdjevic and Kris Van Damme. It was directed by veteran stuntman, and actor, turned first time director Peter Malota. It was scripted by Craig Stewart, Brian Smolensky and Jesse Cilio. The film, like most recent Van Damme movies, was released directly to video and VOD (in America). I found it to be pretty routine, cheesy and forgettable, but still mildly entertaining.An unidentified man, named Philip (Van Damme), arrives at a hospital severely wounded and disoriented. A nurse, named Suzanne (Reeser), assists him. Then a ruthless international gang invades the hospital looking for the man. The hospital turns into a bloody war zone as Philip and Suzanne try to survive the violent gang attack together.The film is very reminiscent of a lot of other direct-to-video Van Damme movies. There's definitely nothing original or unique to the film at all. If you like Van Damme though, and you just want to watch him do his thing, then the movie could be fun for you. I found it to be slightly amusing, but I was hoping for at least just a little bit more from it.Watch an episode of our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://youtu.be/KR0HDeT91m0
... View MoreThe film is a flashback from the memory of Suzanne (Autumn Reeser) an LA hospital nurse (filmed in Biloxi). She tells a story about how Philip (Jean-Claude Van Damme) saved her life and killed a bunch of people. We later discover he was after the Serbian Minister, a war criminal. The film includes his son Kris Van Damme as a bad guy Dusan who can kick his foot above his head as can bad girl Almira (bikini model Mila Kaladjurdjevic). The film is fairly straight forward until the last ten minutes where we get the twist which made the film worth a view for JCVD fans.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
... View MoreSome films have always attempted to rewrite history. This one belongs to those that take it a step further and attempt to rewrite recent events. The result is in this case very anti-Serbian and anti-Slavic. Frankly, I found the film culturally insensitive and offensive (even though I'm not Serbian myself).However, let's look at the craftsmanship quality of the film first. To put it simply, it's a (weak) Die Hard in a hospital with a double Keyser Söze at the end. Nothing new is added to these simple constructs and ironically, I think that's a good thing (a film isn't perfect when you can't add anything to it, but when you can't remove anything). The plot is confusing and chaotic. It doesn't clear up until shortly before the first Keyser Söze twist and when the twist happens, we find out that most of it were lies anyway. Yes, that's exactly the effect the filmmakers were aiming for, but it leaves an impression that they don't know what are they doing. JCVD performed as expected and Autumn Reeser wasn't bad either.Alas, this film isn't just about neutral entertainment. For no reason whatsoever, they decided to make it an "exploitation" film. Phillip's (a typical Albanian name indeed) father could have been an FBI agent murdered by a drug lord. No, they decided to make it political so he was an Albanian separatist killed by Black Hand (yes, the group which "started the Great War" and which actually no longer exists). It's quite clear on whose side the filmmakers are just from a special usage of whitewashing. Albanians are cast by blond and/or blue-eyed Caucasians (preferably Anglo-Saxons, but Spanish and others are OK too) while Slavs are made to look as Siberian/Asian as possible. WOW. Whitewashing was always considered bad, but when you actually manage to offend even white people themselves, you know that you've reached a new level. Misrepresentation of Albanians doesn't stop at appearance. They are characterized as some kind of noble samurai who resort to violence only when their peaceful ways fail. ROFL.By the way, Kingdom of Yugoslavia wasn't created by Soviet Union. It was a result of Paris accords after WWI.
... View MoreUnfortunately, this has got to be one of Van Dammes worst films. It looks like after all those years of hard partying sure has caught up to him in 2017 as he looked pretty miserable in this. This makes Universal Soldier II look golden. The trailer looked like it would of been a cheesy, so bad it's good 90's throwback action film, but it was just plain bad. It did have a decent supporting cast and a couple of OK action scenes and it was a bit better than say Steven Seagal's stuff, but that isn't saying much. Overall, it's a shame this couldn't have been at least half decent considering Van Damme as of late seemed to have been doing better projects like his show - "Jean Claude Van Johnson". But with a movie like "Kill Em All" his action career doing movies like he used to are long and gone.3/10
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