Black Water

Well this is a low budget starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Do you enjoy his other low budget movies? If you do, you will probably enjoy this one. It ain't any special, and Van Damme has better movies even in his post 2010 resume, but its competent and does the job. Lundgren has a rather small role despite being showcase on the cover as much as Van Damme. I wouldn't say its a cameo but his screen time is small. The other main actresses does a fair job with her character as well.

I would say honestly its a rather competent spy/action movie with a decent plot and enough action to keep you interested. Its aimed at the fans of Van Damme before anything else wich i am.

REVIEW - BLACK WATER

2 of the most famous action / martial arts stars team up for this, what promises to be an all action 90+ minutes of fights.

But........

The film credits for the 2 stars in this film are impressive beyond belief, with every film from Rocky to Timecop being a fight and action master class, unfortunately this film doesn't even come close to any of the previous films made by Van Damned or Lungdren.

In fact the action doesn't even really start until an hour into the film.

Most disappointing of all was the poor screen time Lungdren had, only really coming into the mildly interesting story very late into the film itself.

Without trying to give too much away, correct me if I and wrong, but a submarine is basically a long tin can which goes underwear and usually comprises of one central long corridor with rooms to the bow, stern, port and starboard.

The sheer amount of gun fire being exchanged! Enough said.

Mildly interesting story, poor action, shoddy submarine and honestly not their best by far.

Rating 4 out of 10

I gave 5 just for the history of Van Damme & Lundgrin... NOTHING ELSE.

When two legends like these perform they need to pick the best of work team; director, producer, support team..etc

Shame to have such a movie.. Better after watching this nonsense to hurry and watch something from the back golden movies of them and hope to forget what was in, call it any thing but movie, Black Water

The whole movie was like actores and team of young studies final year project.. Amateurs, no experience, no scenario, no dialogue, no story, unbelievable/not logic acting, fake fake fake.

One for JCVD/80s action fans for sure, but this film really delivered a whole lot more than I was expecting!

It's a little slow to begin with, not due to lack of action, but because the storyline takes a little while to develop. Just accept 'Good Guys vs Bad Guys' and then you can enjoy the story. The plot is fast paced and keeps you interested until the very end, and for the most part the acting is at a good enough standard. Visually it is quite impressive, which is a shock considering other non-blockbusters categorised alongside this one.

Martial arts and gun fights galore, this is really all you'd expect from this genre. The suggested split billing of Van Damme and Lundgren is very misleading, this is 100% a JCVD film with Lundgren popping up along the way. They're cheesy together, yes, but the chemistry is good.

Finally, don't expect any reality. I'm not an expert on submarines, but I'm pretty sure that amount of machine gun fire is less than ideal for ones integrity.

There's probably just enough here to please fans of Van Damme and Lundgren, but it's not a big stand out entry in either of their later careers. That said It is still well worth watching. James Welch Henderson, Arkansas 2/20/2021