Derailed (2002)
5/10
Insane
7 December 2019
This is truly one of the most insane and poorly directed action movies I've ever seen. The sheer incompetence on display from the director and editor is enough to make this possibly the worst movie of JCVD's career in terms of quality. Yet despite all that it is quite entertaining and it could easily have been a 6 from me as its hilariously bad for most of it. However, the problem is with the constant quick cuts which are a big part of the movie. It feels as if there are about 200 cuts per minute in this movie and I am not exaggerating. This brings the movie down a little as it gets very tedious to watch and it's incredibly hard to follow what's going on in certain scenes. The director in general had a clear affinity for trying all the possible camera tricks he could think of; this movie has everything including slow-motion shots, stills, rapid zoom-ins etc. I'm actually planning on seeing more Bob Misiorowski movies to see if they're all as enjoyably terrible. As for Van Damme, this seems to be one of his coke-binge movies and it shows as he just seems very disinterested for most of the movie. He can't be blamed though as he probably knew what this movie was, as did the rest of the cast. Everyone just doesn't care or wonderfully overacts to glorious results. The bad guys are especially hilarious in this as they seemed to have been told to act as if they were in a state of perpetual anger that shows in their facial expressions which just cannot be taken seriously at all. Overall, I recommend any Van Damme fan watches this as it's worth seeing it just to see how insane and incompetent it is.
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