Review of Wake of Death (2004) by Robert C — 10 Dec 2006
With a great opening it suddenly turns into a very dull very boring and unusually not violent action movie. Plot as follows: Nasty Japanese guy kills his wife and his daughter runs away, Nasty Japanese guy's daughter is adopted by Van Damme's dull wife.
.. Nasty Japanese Guy kills Mr Van Damme's wife in order to get his daughter back. Thus pissing off Van Damme. Exactly... could be written on the back of a napkin. Van Damme walks around looking miserable, and like he has a small growth on the side of his forehead, due to the unsurprising murder of his wife.
The bad guy has a whole screen time of about ten minutes doing nothing... but trying to look menacing. There is no martial arts in this movie, Van Damme must be getting too old. Only thing that makes this movie violent is a torture scene involving a power drill.
Ending is quite good but unfortunately the entire movie should have been like that... and by the end we just don't care. If you do watch this watch out for the directors artistic experimental camerawork, it just becomes silly.
Didn't expect much... Crap... but more entertaining than Hostel!
This review of Wake of Death (2004) was written by Robert C on 10 Dec 2006.
Wake of Death has generally received mixed reviews.
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