A strange movie. I mean really strange.
Die Hard was done in 1988. In 1992 Steven Seagal did Under Siege and to be frank it was an awesome film. In 1994 the venerable JCVD did what is possibly the best film of his own (post-Bloodsport) career, Timecop.
And then we have 1995. My best guess is that a producer figured the world could use one more Die Hard/Under Siege clone, and that JCVD should star in it.
The same genius figured it should be done on a shoestring budget, and set in a hockey arena where the editor could "fill space" by inter-cutting scenes from the game.
The main "character" is a fire Marshall who (best guess on this backstory) had a JCVD fetish and studied MMA between fire drills.
As a stand-alone film, it is pretty awful. The plot is dumb. The hockey is distracting. The fight scenes are wretched. JCVD looks mainly lost.
The good news is a classic "trope" where (not making this up) the hero, trying to avoid the assassins chasing him, decides the best strategy is to dress up as the goalie in a Stanley Cup game and wander out onto the ice. Where the coach puts him in the net! It is so outrageous it almost works! And Powers Boothe knows more about playing bad guys than even real bad guys.
Die Hard was done in 1988. In 1992 Steven Seagal did Under Siege and to be frank it was an awesome film. In 1994 the venerable JCVD did what is possibly the best film of his own (post-Bloodsport) career, Timecop.
And then we have 1995. My best guess is that a producer figured the world could use one more Die Hard/Under Siege clone, and that JCVD should star in it.
The same genius figured it should be done on a shoestring budget, and set in a hockey arena where the editor could "fill space" by inter-cutting scenes from the game.
The main "character" is a fire Marshall who (best guess on this backstory) had a JCVD fetish and studied MMA between fire drills.
As a stand-alone film, it is pretty awful. The plot is dumb. The hockey is distracting. The fight scenes are wretched. JCVD looks mainly lost.
The good news is a classic "trope" where (not making this up) the hero, trying to avoid the assassins chasing him, decides the best strategy is to dress up as the goalie in a Stanley Cup game and wander out onto the ice. Where the coach puts him in the net! It is so outrageous it almost works! And Powers Boothe knows more about playing bad guys than even real bad guys.