Sudden Death

Van Damme running around a hockey arena trying to diffuse some bombs and outwit Powers Booth, before he kills the Vice President and blows up the entire arena. I know the story sounds a little like Die Hard 2, but instead of an airport it takes place in a hockey rink, but it still works. Van Damme actually manages to bounce back a little after that disgrace of a movie called Street Fighter.

Sudden Death features a variety of different action sequences and fight scenes, including a fight in kitchen between Van Damme and an almost seven foot tall woman in the Pittsburg Penguin mascot suit, a gun fight between two guys in the equipment room and a couple action sequences featuring some home made arson weapons Van Damme cooked up, good times.

Because of the nature of the character in this movie, he does not have a special forces background or anything like that, Van Damme uses a lot of weapons and grappling, he does not make uses of use famous jump kicks and that sort of thing, the fights are gruesome and punishing. These kinds of movies are a testament to Mr. Van Damme’s versatility, because they work just as well as some of his more typical fancy jumping spinning martial arts movies.