Sudden Death

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[4.5] a creative and exciting, highly underrated van damme film.......2007-08-28

I am not sure why I hear a lot of bad comments about this Van Damme film. Sudden Death is one of many "Die Hard" remakes, but this is the most exciting one I have seen, all taking place in the Pittsburgh hockey arena during game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. The action and suspense are teriffic, and Van Damme does a fine all-around performance (for Van Damme). The movie is quickly paced and something is always happening. Though acting and visual effects may be poor at times, this is not a film to be watching for a wonderful hollywood drama. This is pure Van Damme excitment for some no-brain kick-butt action. I give 4.5 stars, not because this is one of the best movies ever made, but it is one of the most exciting Van Damme movies that is must see fun.

Van Damme is "Darren", a sort-of fire rescue man who brings his daughter and son to the hockey game. Before the game begins, preparations are already unfolding for a new terror plot. The Vice President is on his way to the game to view the action live, and the terrorists are ready to take action once he takes his position in the owner's vip room. Naturally, the man in charge (Joshua Foss, played by Powers Boothe) wants money, and if he doesn't get it, he kills one hostage in the room after each period of the game expires. If the money is not in his account, the entire arena is rigged to blow at the conclusion of the game.

Enter Van Damme, who plays hero, but does an exciting job of it. He gets in plenty of fights throughout the interior of the arena and on the rooftop as well. My favorite is with one of the terrorist women, who is disguised in the Penguin's mascot outfit. Its kinda silly that he is fighting a mascot, but the kitchen they fight in gets torn up real good. There is also a pretty good fight in the weight room later on.

One of the most exciting things about the film is that it is all taking place during a hockey game. The game itself is fun to watch, as we get dozens of clips throughout the movie. At one point, in an attempt to avoid some of the terrorists, Van Damme enters the game as the Penguin's goalee, though no one realizes it. He is forced to play a few minutes of the game, and it was pretty fun to see.

Again, 4.5 for a great Van Damme film. Do check this one out, as it is a roller coaster that never stops. Though the ending is predicatble, its fun to see how we get there.

Great movie.......2007-07-09

I like hockey and I like action movies. This was one of my favorite movies growing up and I still enjoy it today. The movie has great action moments and Van Damme has his best movie.

Let's play hockey!.......2006-08-08

I've never been a big fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme, and as of last night, had never watched a film of his before. Although I did feel like watching Street Fighter a few years back, but I was really into Kylie Minogue at the time. And I was young. That's an excuse right?

I was ended up pleasantly surprised by his acting - for some reason, I'd got it into my head that he's not that good an actor. OK, he was alright, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go rushing out to buy all his films.

There's nothing new about this film, but it'll grab your attention the whole time it's on the screen. It's a clone of many other movies, and and it itself, has probably been cloned over the years. What's terrific is the build up to the finale. It's one of those movies, where just when you think surely it's finished now, it brings out another twist, or another explosion, and you're swept along.

There's a few silly moments included in the film - Van Damme fighting a woman in a penguin suit for example, it's so funny to see and must have been embarrassing to film! :) But it ended up with the woman in the penguin suit someone that could be easily killed off and no one worries about her.

Three quarters of the way through the movie Van Damme decides to take a quick break from all the hard work - and play some hockey! At first I totally did not realise it was Van Damme, for some reason, I thought it was one of the bad guys. It wasn't until the over done "I love you" moment, that I realised who it was.

Unfortunately, Van Damme is far overshadowed by bigger, better action heroes, despite his best attempts at an impression of Bruce Willis throughout. Arnie & Sly obviously have the bigger muscles, and dare I say it, Mr Seagull has the overall size. Who would win in a punch up?

What I was most looking forward to about this was seeing little Ross Malinger again, who I best knew from Sleepless In Seattle. He doesn't play a different character, or look any older (who else wanted him to stand up & shout out "I preferred my daddy in Sleepless In Seattle!")

Overall, it's a pretty good action movie, doesn't test the braincells too much, and is pretty good fun.

Alright kids, you stay here while I go and save the 20,000 people in this stadium ok. And I have to save the vice president too.......2006-07-23

And then he goes and plays hockey!

Overall I have to say that this flick was one of the stupidest movies ever but the production values are high and the acting is pretty good. Very unusual for a Jean Claude movie. I even remember some classic lines from the hockey announcer. I wouldn't rate this as one of Damme's better movies, but then again, it is really not far off. All in all, this was a fun movie, if you are not over the age of 13.

Excellent.......2006-07-04

Again, this product was really new like you always say it and there was no defect whatsoever.Also, the picture quality was clear as well as the sound and I really want to thank you guys once again for the good job you do in reminding people for their
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useful and concise
Outdated info
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Gets to the point
Be prepared to save a childs life

Infant & Child CPR
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Release Date: 2006-06-20

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useful and concise.......2007-06-27

While I wouldn't advocate relying on a DVD to replace Red Cross CPR training, it was a perfect refresher for me (trained <5 years ago) and enough to make me feel more comfortable with babysitters after they viewed it. It gives all the necessary steps in a clear (if not a little cheesy) way and is concise enough not to bore you to tears.

Outdated info.......2007-03-30

This video has outdated information on the correct ratio for CPR. Needs to be updated!

not very good.......2006-11-10

take a class; I did after watching this video and learned much more hands on. I think any video alone won't work at all

Gets to the point.......2006-09-16

I thought this video was good. It gets to the point and lets you stop and rewatch things. I don't need lenghty explanations on how and why, I just want to know how to save a life if I need to. I am buying this for myself and my children's grandparents because I think the video is to the point enough to keep the grandparents interested in watching it all. Not too long and boring.

Be prepared to save a childs life .......2006-08-10

I highly reccommend that you take the time to review this video. In as little as 15 minutes you can obtain the skills necessary to save a childs life. Can you imagine what this would mean to you if you were ever in that situation and needed to do CPR on a child. The instructor does a great job demonstrating all the skills needed to preform CPR on a child. Don't take a chance and find yourself in a situation without these CPR skills. As a grandparent I know I am better prepared, having reviewed this video, to do CPR on a child if I ever need to.

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CUE UP WOULD-BE SUSPENSE MUSIC ...AND PREPARE TO LAUGH!
Sudden Fear
American Kabuki
Crawford has great moments
Stylish Thriller With Crawford at Her Best

Sudden Fear
Starring: Joan Crawford , Jack Palance , Gloria Grahame , Bruce Bennett , and Virginia Huston
Director: David Miller
Manufacturer: Kino Video
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ASIN: B00000IPHP
Release Date: 2003-09-02

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Sudden Fear is one of those noir gems about a love-hate relationship between a husband and wife that's doomed from the very beginning. Jack Palance plays an ambitious actor rebuffed by playwright and heiress Joan Crawford. He later romances and marries her before falling under the dark spell of ex-girlfriend Gloria Grahame. When Palance and Grahame plot to get her fortune, the evil scheme backfires with ironically twisted results. Palance has no idea how much his wife truly loves him, and she has no idea how sinister he truly is. It's a fascinating if contrived film, with wonderful nuances and sensitive performances by the three leads. --Bill Desowitz

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Joan Crawford turns in one of the most emotionally charged performances of her career as a playwright who must use her plotting skills to save her own life, in this beautifully crafted film noir thriller. Nominated for four Academy Awards, "Sudden Fear" is an unbeatable combination of lush melodrama and drop-dead suspense.

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CUE UP WOULD-BE SUSPENSE MUSIC ...AND PREPARE TO LAUGH!.......2007-09-06

In this irresistible potboiler, Joan Crawford is Manhattan's greatest playwright AND San Francisco's wealthiest heiress, wooed by younger Jack Palance --- an actor she once fired. Cue up would-be suspense music, and prepare to laugh.

Tripping, carefree, down stone steps to the bay, Crawford shrugs off Palance's warning that a railing is needed. "Remember what Nietschze said," she shirps, " 'Live dangerously.' " Palance replies, "He's dead." Palance's fellow con artist and lover, Gloria Grahame, turns up to help plot Crawford's demise, even as Crawford is rejuecting her lawyer's plea to leave Palance little in her will. "I'm not going to hang onto any man from the grave," she insists.

That night, Grahame and Palance talk privately in Crawford's study. Come morning, Crawford slips into the room to use her futuristic, ultrasophisticated recording device to dictate changes in her will --- leaving everything to Palance --- but finds she'd absent-mindedly left the machine on. Prepare for your jaw to drop as Crawford dives headlong into a bravura display of Bad Acting, listening in mounting shock, horror, and unrelieved hamminess to the record of Palance's conversation with Grahame.

For seven l-o-n-g minutes, listening to pithy remarks like Palance's "Sometimes when I'm with her, it's all I can do to keep form saying, 'Wise up. Love you? I never loved you, never for one second,' " Crawford goes where no one's ever gone before, gasping, crying, furrowing her brow, shutting her eyes, widening her eyes, darting her eyes from side to side, clamping her hands over her ears.

And that's BEFORE she hears them plot to kill her. "It'll have to look like an accident," says Palance. "We'll work something out," replies Grahame. "I know a way." The record starts skipping, so Grahame's voice repeats, "i know a way," over and over, thirty-two times while Crawford acts and acts.

What next? She picks up the record and --- accidentally breaks it. In bed, Crawford has crazed nightmares of being pushed from a building, her car going off a cliff, Palance smothering her only to wake up and find that she's holding a pillow over her own face!

Delightfully, the fun has just begun, for Crawford --- our greatest playwright, remember? --- schemes a plan of her own. Suffice to say that it involves several key cast members having personalized stationery, duplicate keys, a bottle labelled "POISON," a hidden gun, Crawford's natural flare for forging signatures, a fall down a staircase, a toy windup dog, a truly crazed "mad scene" into a mirror, and --- oh yes --- the random occurence that Crawford and Grahame will, BY CHANCE, wear EXACTLY the same color dress, coat, gloves, and scarves.

Funniest of all is that Crawford and Palance got Oscar nominations!!

Sudden Fear.......2007-06-26

Miller's Oscar-nominated "Sudden Fear" pairs queen of melodrama Crawford with dashing villain Palance, while Grahame sizzles as his greedy, scheming mistress. With its atmospheric lighting and stark cinematography, the film is exemplary of noir-thrillers of the time, but screenwriter Lenore J. Coffee gives the plot an extra twist by having Crawford discover the murder plan via Dictaphone-and then orchestrate her revenge. The resulting game of cat and mouse, which ends with a climactic nighttime chase, is the heart-pounding fun of "Fear."

American Kabuki.......2007-05-14

The first half of David Miller's noirish melodrama proceeds like a variant of the standard heiress-marries-murderous-cad film, such as SUSPICION, BORN TO KILL, and THE HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL. Though the film is especially well shot, the acting is very strange. Jack Palance tries gallantly as the cad, but Gloria Grahame purses her mouth too much in evil prissiness; Joan Crawford, as an heiress-playwright (how many of those do you suppose there are in the world?), does her usual post-MGM routine of alternately shrilling orders at people and then using her peculiar irritating whimper to cozy up to her new husband Palance, whom she foolishly believes is wildly in love with her. Then, halfway through the film, everything changes when Crawford listens to an accidental recording of Palance and Grahame plotting her murder: as she listens, she rolls her eyes in terror and bites her knuckles and strides up and down her well-appointed study in anguish. As in POSSESSED (1947), the director seems to be taking advantage of Crawford's background in silent film. The acting becomes more and more gestural and stylized as both words and naturalism go right out the window. The rest of the film is almost all done in pantomime`as Crawford weaves her own counterplot against Palance's and Grahame's murderous schemes.

The stylization of gestures and movement only directs your attention more to her outlandish makeup and hairdo and his equally bizarre facial features; as a result the second half seems like an American version of Kabuki theatre. But for all the praise the film has garnered it's really not much fun. Crawford was incapable of being likeable in this latter half of her career, and outside from a few choice moments where she imagines how Palance might do her in (including a wonderfully hilarious shot of her falling in terror to her death from a skycraper), this is the rare later films of hers that is not much relieved by camp humor. The film has its own odd brand of ingenuity, but it's ultimately not much fun.

Crawford has great moments.......2007-05-11

We all know how famous Crawford was for the melodramas' and the often overacting (think of Queen Bee). However, in Suddent Fear she is truly convincing as the wife who has just discovered her husband is out to kill her, hence the title.

Some very tense scenes in this classic film noir. Crawford herself disputed the choice of Jack Palance as the leading man saying he was not attractive enough for the lead. She was right, he looked very odd, almost plastic. That aside, Jack still puts in a good performance.

The DVD is heavily overpriced. Why it needs to be so expensive is anyone's guess. Especially considering the dismal transfer to DVD. Yes, it is as bad as you have read about in other reviews. No Restoration whatsoever. No extras. Should really be alot cheaper than it is. You are paying for Joan Crawford really.

Stylish Thriller With Crawford at Her Best.......2007-02-25

Joan Crawford delivers one of her finest performances in this 1952 suspense thriller. "Sudden Fear" has all the classic noir trappings, with enough plot twists to keep you on edge. Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame are a perfect match for Crawford's cat-and-mouse theatrics -- guided by David Miller's razor-sharp direction and Charles B. Lang's Oscar-nominated cinematography. Despite a less-than-stellar print and no extras, this Kino DVD is highly recommended.

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Hard Target/Sudden Death
Starring: Jean Claude Van Damme , and Lance Henriksen
Director: John Woo
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B000N4RASI
Release Date: 2007-05-22

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The thrill of the hunt. It's the ultimate drug, and the more intense the rush, the higher the price. International superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up with world-famous action director John Woo for this electrifying thriller that WGN Radio hails as "Easily one of the year's best films!" Van Damme is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen) who recruits homeless combat veterans for the "amusement" of his clients - bored tycoons who will pay a half a million dollars to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of them all: Man. Laced with dark humor and slam-packed with electrifying action Hard Target is a must see for action fans.

International action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme teams with Powers Boothe in a tension-packed, suspense thriller set against the backdrop of a Stanley Cup game. Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game. With the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end, Van Damme frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue his daughter and abort an impending explosion… before the final buzzer. It's a wild ride against time that Kevin Thomas of The Los Angeles Times calls "A superior action thriller loaded with jaw-dropping stunts and special effects."

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The carnage erupts as the surviving players in the Gantz's twisted game frind themselves facing two kinds of aliens! As players are mercilessly slaughtered, the unarmed and unsuited Kurono's only hope lies somehow managing to survive until the clock runs out.

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gantz.......2005-10-02

Gantz is an anime for a more teen to adult audience. killing, fowl language and sexual situations (everything we americans are lacking in in our own tv shows) fill every episode of gantz. while the first dvds only contain 2 episodes each the later dvds make up for it with 3 or 4 episodes. if you love pokemon you might wanna skip gantz. but if you have good taste then i strongly urge you to get hooked on this series.

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Crib Safety & Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Starring: World Educational Resources Group
Director: Bette Brown
Manufacturer: World Educational Resources Group
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Release Date: 2006-09-01

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Sudden Death
Starring: Felton Perry , E. Eddie Romero , Harry Roskolenko , Don Stroud , and Ron Vawter
Director: Richard Foreman , and Eddie Romero
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Release Date: 2002-01-01

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[4.5] a creative and exciting, highly underrated van damme film
Great movie
Let's play hockey!
Alright kids, you stay here while I go and save the 20,000 people in this stadium ok. And I have to save the vice president too
Excellent

Sudden Death [Region 2]
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Powers Boothe , Raymond J. Barry , Whittni Wright , and Ross Malinger
Director: Peter Hyams
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[4.5] a creative and exciting, highly underrated van damme film.......2007-08-28

Great movie.......2007-07-09

I like hockey and I like action movies. This was one of my favorite movies growing up and I still enjoy it today. The movie has great action moments and Van Damme has his best movie.

Let's play hockey!.......2006-08-08

Alright kids, you stay here while I go and save the 20,000 people in this stadium ok. And I have to save the vice president too.......2006-07-23

Excellent.......2006-07-04

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Infant and Child CPR
Starring: Tracy Kalemba
Manufacturer: Warlock Records
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ASIN: B000E1XOK8
Release Date: 2006-02-21

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[4.5] a creative and exciting, highly underrated van damme film
Great movie
Let's play hockey!
Alright kids, you stay here while I go and save the 20,000 people in this stadium ok. And I have to save the vice president too
Excellent

Sudden Death [Region 2]
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Powers Boothe , Raymond J. Barry , Whittni Wright , and Ross Malinger
Director: Peter Hyams
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ASIN: B00004CZTP

Customer Reviews:

[4.5] a creative and exciting, highly underrated van damme film.......2007-08-28

Great movie.......2007-07-09

I like hockey and I like action movies. This was one of my favorite movies growing up and I still enjoy it today. The movie has great action moments and Van Damme has his best movie.

Let's play hockey!.......2006-08-08

Alright kids, you stay here while I go and save the 20,000 people in this stadium ok. And I have to save the vice president too.......2006-07-23

Excellent.......2006-07-04

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