I checked out this film because I had read a lot of good things about it. I admit that I have never really been that big of a Van Damme fan but I have seen Bloodsport, In Hell, Universal Soldier, Street Fighter,The Quest, and Hard Target. Bloodsport was cool and Hard Target was pretty good. In Hell was good for a direct to DVD film but it wasn't much of an action movie. The other films were terrible though. I like Steven Seagal direct to DVD films because they are stupid fun. Wake of Death is really good for a direct to DVD movie. It's gory, cars explode for no reason, and a lot of people die, and these are all good things. I would say that the director uses slow motion way too much and there was a good 15 minutes of useless staring, or going over plot points we already knew about. They should have either used those 15 minutes to better explain the relationship between Van Damme and his friends/family, I'm still not quite sure who they were, or use it so that we could watch Van Damme kill more people. Either way I recommend this flick to Van Damme fans and anyone that wants to watch a good dumb action flick.
Review of Wake of Death
