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Death Warrant on DVD (1990)

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Average rating: 58%
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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: 85 mins
Certificate: 18
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller
Languages: English
Dubbed: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired: English, German
Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Released: 09/07/2001

Brief synopsis of 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.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

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.

Halliwell's Film Guide

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

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Rated - 2 starsOh dear

Ruairi from Bedfordshire , 25/10/2004

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 time ago, but he had a big pink car in that, which was pretty manly. Or perhaps not) featuring some very sympathetic macho gays.

Our Jean goes undercover in prison basically, and from the moment he arrives, everybody wants to have forceful sex with him, apart from one dude who lives in the boiler room with a harem of transexuals. There's a ridiculously one-dimensional female love interest, but her character may as well have been called Smokescreen. There's some fairly average fight sequences too, but ultimately this is one for the guys. Who like guys.

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Rated - 2 starsThe sand man

CheekyBEEF from the midlands, england , 07/02/2005

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 prison to investigate inmates being murdered, whilst in their he has to do lots of fighting and because I am sure he has it written into his contract he bares his arse once or twice. Like I said a typical Van damme movie, its a good no brainer actioner, the sort of thing to put on when you have had a few beers and have ordered a takeaway.

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Rated - 4 starsI quite like it!

Howard Nicholson from Cornwall, England , 28/02/2005

A bit dated in places, but I found it quite gripping.

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Rated - 4 starsTOP MOVIE !!!

A customer from GLASGOW , 04/03/2006

Canadian Mountie Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is assigned to a bizarre case where prison inmates are being murdered. Sent to the jail to investigate while undercover as a prisoner, Burke is hot on the trail until one of his former busts, the Sandman (Patrick Kilpatrick), is transferred to the same prison.

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Rated - 2 starsThe sand man

CheekyBEEF from the midlands, england , 07/02/2005

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 prison to investigate inmates being murdered, whilst in their he has to do lots of fighting and because I am sure he has it written into his contract he bares his arse once or twice. Like I said a typical Van damme movie, its a good no brainer actioner, the sort of thing to put on when you have had a few beers and have ordered a takeaway.

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Rated - 2 starsPrison drama

A customer from Halifax, U K , 06/04/2005

I found this film too violent . Having watched The Green Mile, I expected a similar theme, but I was disappointed with the storyline .

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