Black Water
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
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- Cast:
- Jean-Claude Van Damme , Dolph Lundgren , Patrick Kilpatrick , Al Sapienza , Jasmine Waltz , Kris Van Damme , Courtney Blythe Turk
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Dolph Lundgren & a very old version of Van Damme, what did you expect. A "B" movie with a bunch of guys who thought they always made A- movies in their youth. The plot is predictable, Van Damme puts them down, but he has to hit them hard and twice to get it done this time, it's not like in his youth, when people fell down before he hit them. The actor who plays the FBI agent, plays it very well, like a professional, but he dies early in the movie. Al Spinoza, plays good (I saw him in Ascension) as always, in the bad guy role and that pretty sum all of it. I gave it a 4 , for encouragement.
Worst and confusing story plot. Decent acting. Not even worth of watching one time.
'Black Water' really surprised me. It's easily one of the best entries in the filmography of its two stars in this decade. Comparisons to the old days are quite useless, because I wouldn' expect someone who is almost 60 to put his foot in other people's faces a lot - apparently some fans do, and that's the bunch with the low ratings. The movie does not feature any kicks, look elsewhere for that. Instead, 'Black Water' is an intense thriller with psychological tension (okay, and a lot of ammo used as well). Agents from different sides are locked in a submarine with their enemies, some may be double agents, most of them don't tell the truth, so the captain and many others have a hard time guessing who is on who's side - and then, in the extremely narrow space, chases and deadly shoot-outs take place. Jean-Claude Van Damme as Wheeler is the hero here, while Dolph Lundgren as Marco is a prisoner whom Wheeler releases although he doesn't know anything about him, believing "my enemies' enemy is my friend - probably" which is a good example of how the movie never lets his characters walk on safe ground. Small grudges like the embarassing love scene aside, a good movie that did not need a big budget due to its confined location (almost completely taking place inside the submarine) and a clever script.
An unsuccessful attempt to create something like "Escape Plan". The twists were so predictable, was excepting a better story that makes more sense.