Death Warrant

1990

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 20659 20.7K

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Plot summary

The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. When in jail, Louis, using his outstandings martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in that violent world. At least, helped by two another prisoners, he succeded in finding the truth about the dreadful crimes. In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.


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Jean-Claude Van Damme as Louis Burke
Jack Bannon as Ben Keane
Cynthia Gibb as Amanda Beckett
Joshua John Miller as Douglas Tisdale
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tarbosh22000 8 / 10

"Death Warrant" is classic 90's Van Damme.

"Death Warrant" is classic 90's Van Damme. This time around: Louis Burke (Van Damme) is a policeman who goes undercover in a jail to investigate a murder. While inside, he realizes there's not just murder, but corruption. Now he has to high kick and low split his way to justice.

After the weak "Lionheart", Van Damme realized that he should take a break from the Kumites, and the Underground Brawls and focus his efforts into a making a fun action pic. The final fight had all the ingrediants for the usual Van Climax: Swift, brutal kicks to the face and an action hero trademark, an impaling.

If you watch enough Seagal, Norris, and Van Damme flicks you realize it's all the same, but who cares, it's another 90 minute action movie with mediocre writing and directing! Yeah! For more insanity, please check out: comeuppancereviews.com

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Van Damme against violent inmates using his incredible martial art

The cunning detective named Louis Burke(Jean Claude Van Damme), a Royal Canadian police, fights in an abandoned location with a villain called Sandman. Later Burke is sent prison of Harrison to investigate assassination nine inmates mysteriously murdered. He poses as a prisoner and advocate Amanda(Cynthia Gibb) acts like his spouse. Burke befriends an one-eyed inmate(Robert Guillaume) and the Priest. The Harrison Penitentiary is ruled by a tough sergeant named De Graff (Art Le Flour) and attended by a doctor(Armin Shimerman). Burke must to confront brutal inmates(Al Leong) and his cruel enemy Sandman(Patrick Kilpatrick). Burke and Amanda are only helped by a teen hacker(Joshua Miller) until the stirring and strong final showdown.

This violent film contains suspense, action, tension and spectacular fights. Entertaining movie, thanks to tight pace, skillful edition and well mounted combats. It's tense and exciting , at time lackluster action movie , but the struggles and fighting are well done . Jean Claude is nice as two-fisted hero in this middling budget picture. Interesting screenplay by David S Goyer, today famous as producer and screenwriter of superheroes(Batman, Blade,Ghost Rider). Appropriate musical score fitting to action movie by Gary Chang. Colorful cinematography by Russell Carpenter, a future cameraman of blockbusters (Titanic, Charlie's Angels I and II, Monster in law). The motion picture is professionally directed by Deran Sarafian who achieved success with ¨Terminal velocity¨, though today exclusively directing for television (CSI: Miami, NY, Without trace, Lost). Pointlessly energetic and excessively violent, the film will like the true devotee of main actor. It's a must see for Van Damme fans.

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10

Normal prison film antics enlivened by an incredibly over the top ending

The sudden prison craze of the late '80s (including flicks like Stallone's LOCK UP) is surely the source of inspiration for this entertaining slice of Van Damme action. You would be hard pressed to make this film look good in light of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, but let's face it, Tim Robbins never gets to go around and kick people in the face in that film, even if it is ten times better made. I was pleasantly surprised to find this in the budget section, which is where most of Van Damme's films seem to be hiding these days. Made the same year as A.W.O.L. but not quite as good, this is still fun stuff. Van Damme gets to go through all the old prison clichés - homosexual inmates, transvestites, getting locked up naked in a cockroach-filled hole - in a manner which is never fun, but wholly unpleasant.

In fact, the film seems to simply switch from Van Damme getting beaten up in one bad situation to just put him in another, and another, and so on until the end. Most of the film is dark and dank looking, so this ultimately makes for one majorly depressing movie, well that is if it wasn't for the cool action sequences.

The cast is of the typical B-movie variety, with Robert Guillaume enjoying his role as one of those 'old black sympathetic guys' who seem to fill up just about every prison movie of the '90s. The actor playing the evil Sandman, Patrick Kilpatrick is also memorably over the top, with a manic laugh and even stranger features. Other memorable faces fill out the cast, but Cynthia Gibb has a thankless role as the token love interest who gets about five minutes of screen time and is pretty much degraded. Armin Shimerman (Quark from DEEP SPACE NINE) is the only other familiar face, as a corrupt doctor who faces gang vengeance.

Thankfully, the interesting and unlikely plot about unorthodox organ donation is pretty fun to watch, and there are lots of fights and punch-ups to keep things moving along. The movie is pretty average, well that is until the ending, then it becomes something else entirely.

Never have I seen a reel of film that is so over the top, but done in such a straight-faced manner. This is the ultimate in unintentional humour, the final fight between Van Damme and the Sandman is sheer brilliance because of the absurdity of it. It starts off with Van Damme having a huge spanner hit him across the wrists and head, then the Sandman whacking him in the chest and stomach with the aforementioned hammer. This would have killed most people, but has no effect on Van Damme who is being pummelled one minute and then up and running the next.

The next fight involves a circular saw which just happens to be laying around, and the Sandman gets his hair sliced off in one cool and startling effect sequence, which I've been wondering how they achieved. After this Van Damme gets thrown off a ledge and hits the ground some thirty feet below, only to groan and grunt a bit, then he gets up and keeps on fighting! The Sandman uses a broken light bulb (which in reality would be extremely fragile and hardly effective) to lacerate most of Van Damme's body. But our favourite Muscles from Brussels eventually kicks the Sandman into a burning room, but the Sandman runs out, puts out the fire and keeps on fighting! This is hilarious stuff.

Let's just recap here: by this time, the Sandman is suffering from third degree burns over 70% of his body, and would probably be unconscious with the pain. He definitely wouldn't be coherent, and he couldn't stand up either. Van Damme, meanwhile, has had his skull fractured and his arms broken with the spanner, his stomach crushed and mutilated with the same spanner (kind of like how Houdini died), he's been thrown off a ledge and had the rest of his ribs and bones broken in the resulting fall, and also he's had most of his body sliced open and must have lost a couple of pints of blood. Still, he's one tough guy, and he has just enough strength to kick the Sandman's head onto a handy spike, then breaks his jaw and kills him.

In another hilarious moment, all the prisoners stand back to let him pass (despite the fact he's an undercover cop), because he's earned some respect from the fight. This has to be one of the best fight sequences I've ever seen, just because it's so damn funny and an unexpected treat. That's right: watch this film for the ending alone.

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