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1990 Certificate 18 Certificate 18
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In DEATH WARRANT, Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a Canadian detective and master of martial arts, poses as an inmate in a penitentiary to find out who is behind a series of brutal cell block murders. If his cover is blown, the "Sandman" (Patrick Kilpatrick) will be out to put him to sleep...permanently. Read more

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson
Director Deran Sarafian
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Death Warrant

In DEATH WARRANT, Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a Canadian detective and master of martial arts, poses as an inmate in a penitentiary to find out who is behind a series of brutal cell block murders. If his cover is blown, the "Sandman" (Patrick Kilpatrick) will be out to put him to sleep...permanently.

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson, Art La Fleur, Patrick Kilpatrick, Hank Stone
Director Deran Sarafian
Studio MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 25 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 33 mins
Certificate DVD: Certificate 18, Watch Online: Certificate 18
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Watch Online: English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired English, German
Subtitles DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Released DVD: 09 Jul 2001
Watch now: 01 Sep 2009
Production year: 1990
Watch now £2.49
  • Critics' reviews (2) of Death Warrant

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    Even for a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, this is an excessively violent, if clinically efficient, exercise in body pulverising. Van Damme stars as a maverick Royal Canadian Mountie (yes, you did read that correctly!), sent to a prison where there's been a series of grisly unsolved murders. There he comes face to face with an old foe: the psychopathic “Sandman”, played with zealous enthusiasm by Patrick Kilpatrick. To some extent this marked a career breakthrough for Van Damme, who got to play not just a kickboxer, but — hey! — an undercover kickboxer. Deran Sarafian's direction is brutally efficient, while the script, such as it is, seems merely an excuse to get Van Damme into situations where he has to fight himself out. Fans of the “Muscles from Brussels” won't be disappointed, though.

    • Radio Times
  • An implausible thriller, given little sense of reality but affording opportunities, readily taken, for violence.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 4 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Oh dear

    Sadly, this is not one of Van Damme's best. It is, however, the most blatantly homosexual of his films (excluding that gay soft-core movie he did a long ... more

      • Ruairi from Bedfordshire
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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    The sand man

    This is a typical Jean-claude van damme movie. Lots of testosterone and high kicking action. Van damme is an undercover cop going into a maximum security ... more

      • CheekyBEEF from the midlands, england

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