Until Death
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mark Dymond, Selina Giles, Stephen Lord (II), William Ash Brand: VAN DAMME,JEAN-CLAU DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1 Running Time: 101 minutes DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Until Death
Movie Review: a ragged and weary Van Damme . . .
Summary: 3 Stars
Until Death (2007) is a gritty crime drama set in New Orleans, featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Anthony Stowe, a burnt out, drug abusing cop, trying to track down his ex-partner Gabriel Callaghan (Stephen Rea) who has turned from cop to drug dealer. Whether reality, or due to the character, Van Damme looks quite wasted and frayed most of the time. The film features an abundance of gunplay (one genius even shoots his own hand off), and a steady stream of fatalities, with Jean-Claude engaged in minimal hand to hand fighting. The off-beat plot gives him an opportunity to do some real acting, and his performance is quite good.
Things hit the fan hard, when undercover cops are killed in a botched operation to trap Callaghan. Matters get worse after Stowe rats out a fellow officer, and then breaks up with his pregnant wife Valerie (Selina Giles). Capping off the downward slide, after being ambushed in a vicious firefight in a restaurant, Stowe takes a bullet to the head, which puts him into a coma for the next seven months.
A bullet lodged in this skull, Stowe returns home to recuperate. With physical and mental disabilities, Stowe is not the man he once was, but he needs to recover fast, because Callahan has been on a killing spree, and still wants him dead. Strangely, the pretentious Callaghan, has a romantic fixation on Valerie, which leads to a final confrontation in a gloomy warehouse. The shootout is pretty well executed, although quite nonsensical.
While the story doesn't hold together that well, the hard edge, brutality, and gritty atmosphere, is a change from lightweight efforts like The Hard Corps (2006). If you prefer a Van Damme without many laughs, or goofy one-liners, you might want to check this out. The widescreen presentation has no extra features.