That was an excellent one.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Expected more

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

You Can Count on a Peter Hyams Movie to Look Sharp with a Sort of Dazzle and Style Expected from a Director of Photography Turned Director. You Can Count on a Van Damme Movie to be, Well, a Van Damme Movie.So No One Seeing this Should be Surprised at what They Get. A Good Looking No Brainy Actiony Thingy. This One was Made Back when This Type was Rated R, Mostly for Violence, and there were No Qualms about Putting Children in Direct Danger and Kicking and Shooting Some Serious Butt. But at the Time there were a Lot of Formulaic Films, and that's OK Because if it Works it Works, and this was Part of a Group of Die-Hard Followups that by this Time were Starting to Wear Out Their Welcome. It Flopped Domestically.But the Movie is Big Budget Fun and if You Like JCVD or Hockey or Both this Ones for You. For Action Fans it has that R Rated Edge and Never Stops being Entertaining. Not a Lot of Logic but Loads of Laughs and Some Very Cold Villains.

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.

Right from the beginning I could see that this movie was going to be a Die Hard clone, which is not surprising because Die Hard was a very successful movie and created a trend that followed on behind it. The action in the movie was good but the plot seriously sucked. Basically there were so many holes in the plot that it created a movie that you only go and see for Van Damme, and I don't think that he is that great anyway. If you are wanting to see Van Damme's moves, then this is not the movie to see them in. In fact, if you simply want to see good fighting, hire out a Hong Kong video - there generally tends to be much better moves in them.The vice president is going to the Ice Hockey finals and some guy, the movie really never actually explains who he is, only that he knows the government security operations very well, holds him hostage so that he can force the president to remove money from frozen bank accounts. The problem is that they grab a nosey little girl who turns out to be Van Damme's daughter, and that brings him into it.Van Damme's character is a fireman who quit after a girl died in his arms. Now, the thing that annoyed me is that they showed this part, and it really had nothing to do with the movie. It could have just as easily been explained afterwards than to show it. I think that it would have been much better for the plot line if they spent some time describing who Foss, the antagonist, was. They dropped hints but they never actually went as far as outlining everything. Some might say that it is not important because this is an action movie, but I think it is. It makes for a very poor movie to simply disregard plot for action.Sudden Death is a better Van Damme movie and I enjoyed it. All but this stupid sporting commentator in the booth, but then this is what you expect from commentators. I generally do not watch sports because first I find them boring, but mostly because the commentators are prone to say the stupidest things. These guys tried to make themselves look tough, when they really just didn't think about what they were saying. Actually, it was even worse because it was scripted.I liked it, and I am sure Van Damme fanatics would love it. Personally I would rather go back to the original Die Hard. That is a finely crafted movie.

Fans attending the NHL Stanley Cup 7th game between Chicago and Pittsburgh certainly get more than they could ever anticipate at any game. They even have our hero Jean C. Van Damme in the game thwarting goals by the opposing team.The violence abounds here with just about everyone either dodging or taking bullets. Powers Boothe shines as the man hell-bent on having funds transferred to various banks under the threat of blowing the stadium apart. He holds the Vice President and others as hostages and shows how ruthless he can really become. Hostages are shot including the mayor's hysterical sobbing wife.Van Damme takes on the Rambo like character with a charismatic force. Naturally, his children are on the scene and he has something to prove as two years before, he was unable to rescue a child in a fire.