Good topic Sascha.
Here's my choices.
* The Specialist (1994)
Truly awful big budget thriller with Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone possesing about 0% chemistry between them, and an action film with very little decent action. A real bomb of a movie and quite ironic really considering the plot is largely about bombs, being planted by James Woods.
* Maximum Risk (1996)
Van Damme plays twins again in this surprisingly dull action thriller directed by Ringo Lam. It requires too much of Van Damme as an actor and also takes itself too seriously. Worse than that again, with the exception of a good car chase and elevator fight, the action is pretty poor and contains one of the most low key demises I've ever seen of a villain in a film of this type.
* End Of Days (1999)
Billed as Arnold Schwarzenegger's big comeback this was thoroughly dissapointing and certainly could not live up to its own hype. Playing a burned out, widowed cop he must protect a girl in New York city from the return of Satan (Gabriel Byrne). As with the above film, it requires Arnie to act too much (which I thought he did pretty badly) and Gabriel Bryne just acts him off the screen. The action is well handled but the ending is one of the worst I've seen, especially for a big budget movie and again it also takes itself too seriously.
* Avalanche Express (1978)
With a cast that had the likes of Lee Marvin (one of my favourites), Robert Shaw, Linda Evans and Horst Bucholtz, you would be forgiven for thinking that this espionage thriller would be half way decent. Well you would be wrong as it plays out like a muddled, badly scripted mess of a movie with poor, unmemorable action sequences. Largely set unboard a train, "Under Siege 2" this ain't! The fact that both Robert Shaw and director Mark Robson died during production, probably did'nt help much either.
* Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Got to agree with Glimmerman, this is one of the worst sequels ever produced to a mainstream hit. It completly ignores the physics and rules regarding the Unisols from the first film and basically has Van Damme as human as can be, cracking jokes, acting like a family man et al... It forgets that he was a cold blooded, viscous, emotionless killer in the first installment. You know your films in trouble when the cast of the film is made up largely of wrestlers. Hell, even the hospital staff in the film are body builders for f*cks sake!
Thats all for now. More later.
Peace.
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