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Summary: Very good movie
Review: This movie is alot different than van damme's usual movies. This movie has a more serious plot. Him and his wife are living in russia becasue van damme has to work there. his wife is murdered and when van damme takes the killer to court, they let the killer off, due to lack of evidence. Van damme comes out of the room takes a pistal and kills him right outside the court doors. He is sent to a jail where the people where the guards dont give a crap about the people in the prison. There are many fight battles. The battles come about when either 2 men want to fight against each other, or the guards want to pick 2 fighters. The owner of the prison bets on the winner and thats how he makes money. This movie has good acting, action scenes and realism. This is a must see, for all movie fans.
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Summary: I am still kicking, I must be on broadway
Review: Who the hell are you?
Alex
Alex who?
yeah
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Summary: Very good, returns Van Damm to being a Badass
Review: IT's been a long time coming but Van Damm is finally starting to return to being a Badass (which last time we saw that was Universal Soldier). This movie mixes elements of Bloodsport, Shawshank Redemption, Time to Kill, and Oz and creates a very dark but very interesting story.This movie is truely great and I fear will be ignored solly because many will mistake it as a rip off of Undisputed. However this is truely an awsome movie and well worth owning.
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Summary: Van Dammes best acting yet...is it good enough?
Review: The story is about Kyle LeBlanc (Van Damme), an American working in Russia, who avenges the death of his wife killed by a criminal after he is found innocent by buying a corrupt judge. Kyle is arrested and goes to a prison controlled by nasty officials and a warden that gains a lot of money organizing and taking bets with fights between the interns. At first, LeBlanc has no meaning to live, haunted by the image of his wife he even tries to kill himself in desperation. But with time he becomes a cold, heartless man, training hard to defend himself from the gangs and from the guards. The dedication leads to a gaining of respect inside those walls, especially in his relationship with his cellmate, a violent and mysterious man (Lawrence Taylor) who works as the living memory of the place, writing about everything that happens there. Rapidly Kyle turns himself into a "savage," brutal fighter, facing opponents even from other prisons and is considered the champion while some of his friends try to make him remember the man that he was. At this time, a new menace arrives in the form of a man called Valya (Michael Bailey Smith), a prisoner transferred only to fight against Kyle. That's the journey of Van Damme's character in one of his most difficult roles. Well, everybody knows that Van Damme it's not Al Pacino but he tries very hard to make a convincing and troubled man tormented by the horrors of the life in jail, floating from a good man to a savage beast. Unfortunately his character is the only one with depth in a script full of holes and clichés, so his efforts are mostly in vain. One good example is his relationship with his cellmate played by Lawrence Taylor; at first they don't like each other but suddenly they became good friends, with very little to explain of justify this, what is a great flaw considering that Taylor's character is the key of the finale and the soul of the film in a way. In order to compensate for the flaws of the script, director Ringo Lam makes the film with a very gritty and dark tone, almost too serious, with a lot of violence and a claustrophobic mood. This is reflected in the fight scenes, all very realistic. Don't expect Van Damme to do his fancy kicks here 'cause it's all about street fighting, with some great grappling moves from sanbo, wrestling and jiu-jitsu, specially in the fight between Van Damme and Michael Bailey Smith, who is the most menacing opponent that Van Damme has faced since Bolo Yeung. But all the atmosphere, the fights, or the will to do a great film are not enough. With so many underdeveloped characters and situations it's frustrating to see all that style; it's a great cover to a so-so book. 5 Stars for Van Damme
3 Stars for the movie
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Summary: BEST
Review: i freaking love this movie its one of his best ive seen from this time. Replica was cool and this one was something i wasnt expecting . FOR all u SO CALL FANS SAY O THIS SUCKED CASUE NO FIGHTING. u GUYS ainT FANS NOTHING BUT PU$$Y$. EVERYONE this movie is great good plot cause most prison are like that. nice fighting. and acting aint that bad. MAKes HIM LOOK LIKE A WIMP its a damn movie
beside he dosnt know any really moves cause he a fake A ACTOR not like JET LI he the real thing anyways good movie must watch then if u want BUY.
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Summary: WOW, A fresh Van Damne movie that is good
Review: Van Damne delivers a great new movie, thank god, because if he did another bad movie, and see and hear bad comments, he will prolly call it quits but no he still got it.I expected a little more from this movie, like he did fight, but no fancy kicking just punching, but the movie was still good.
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Summary: Very good prison action/drama
Review: I'm really sick of reading these negative 2 to 1 star reviews of this film by people who are pissed there are no high flying kicks. HELLO this is NOT a popcorn action film, it's more of a drama with REALISTIC depictions of prison fighting. It's like watching Keanu Reeves in "Something's Gotta Give," a romantic comedy, then being pissed he wasnt busting out guns or kicking people like in the Matrix. Give the movie a bad rating because it fails in some way, NOT because you think it should have more chop-socky fighting. All that aside, I was very surprised by this film. After the unwatchable "Order" and tear-jerkingly horrendous "Derailed," I had lost hope for Van Damme, but "In Hell" is possibly one of his best films and one of the most effective prison dramas in the last few years. The cinematography and directing is great, thanks to Ringo Lam, a very underrated Hong Kong director, and the acting is very good as well. Van Damme has grown as an actor, and it shows in this film. Also look for a cameo by actor Paulo Tocha(Paco, the arrogant kickboxer from Bloodsport) as Victor. Van Damme is Kyle, a man jailed in a Russian prison for killing the murderer of his wife. The wardens set up illegal fights inside the prison, and Van Damme struggles to survive inside while maintaining his humanity. The fights are brutal and VERY realistic. They mirror real fights you would see in the streets or in UFC and other full contact events, which means elements of grappling and ground fighting are heavily utilized. This adds that much more to the realism of the film and shows Van Damme's versatility as a martial artist. In Derailed we saw some Ju-Jitsu and grappling from Van Damme, but he showcases these skills more heavily in this film. Do not rent or buy this film if you are looking for mindless action and high flying split kicks like in other Van Damme movies, but DO rent or buy it if you want to see a gritty and well directed prison drama with some realistic and brutal fights.
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Summary: Please Support This
Review: Please support this movie. In Hell is a movie that attempts to fill it's dark, prison combating with more than meets the eye, and even though In Hell isn't an entirely successful picture it is infused with enough ingredients to warrant multiple viewings. I mean you've got to give Van Damme credit after all these yrs, and flops, he's still bustin it and genuinely trying to make a non inferior product, sure he's got to pay the bills but one gets the feeling that with this movie it's also still about creativity and entertainment.
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Summary: one twisted but moving story
Review: I love all of Van Damme's movies
he rocks
great action
great humor in some of his movies
the man can act
and Im' proud of his roots of where he came from
must of taken a while to learn our language
I can hear it in his voice that he might be from Russia or somewhere else outside the US. he's amazing. and should never stop making movies til he's either too old too. or has had enough of showbiz. he'll always go out with a bang in my eyes when it comes to movies. I saw the trailer for this and immediately got it on dvd. the whole story is amazing. get this movie.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: In Hell is one of the best JCVD movies from his recent direct to video offerings. In the film, he plays Kyle LeBlanc, a French-American man living and working in Russia with his American wife, who soon gets brutally murdered. Kyle is then sent to a Russian prison after he murders the man who killed his wife. Of course, this prison is no cakewalk...actually it makes Oswald State Prison from the HBO show "Oz" literally look like Disney World. The warden and guards are all corrupt and the prisoners who have money get all the perks. The warden also sets up a human cockfighting arena on the prison grounds where he has two prisoners fight (most of the time fight to the death) and he and his friends take bets on the winners. Of course, JCVD sets out to make his way through this corrupt system, help his new prison friends, and get revenge for his wife's death.
The film is very dark, brutal, and bloody, but it is beautifully filmed. There is one scene in particular when Kyle is thrown in "the hole" for misbehaving. In that scene, after Kyle loses hope and tries to hang himself, a moth flies down from the window/rafters above him and the camera beautifully follows it down as it flutters toward Kyle, and then it lands on the handle of the spoon that is in his untouched bowl of gruel, as if to say, "Eat. Get stronger, and you will be able to free yourself from this place." I know it sounds really corny, but it is really a lovely scene and not something that you typically see in JCVD films.
The DVD transfer is awesome. Picture and sound quality are good and you get widescreen and fullscreen to choose from.
Definitely a movie to see, whether you like Van Damme or not. It's a movie for anyone who has ever lost anyone they loved or had their life inexplicably turned upside down and had to fight to get things right.
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