Black Water (2018)

What a waste of my time!!!

one of my absolute favorites!

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Just watching the preview I less interest to watch this movie.. really looks like old movie, are they using historic camera?

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.

Looks like Jean-Claude Van Damme's hair is going the way of Nicolas Cage's.The hair is a bad sign that this movie is not what I'm wanting from Van Damme. I see a lot of gun play, but I see no marshal arts.It's a Van Damme movie with Dolph Lundgren supporting in what looks like their version of the Stallone/Schwarzenegger lackluster Escape Plan (With a little of Steven Seagal's Under Siege for flavor). They play two men trapped on a submarine being used as a CIA maximum prison.Far be it for me to judge low budget filmmakers for trying to turn lemons into lemonade, but it looks like they spent all their money (Which was too much of their money) to put Van Damme and Lundgren on the poster (Then again, that's the only reason why I went to see it, so money well spent).I can't help but to critique that submarine though. As Van Damme and some hot chick try to out run a group of mercenary-like prison guards I look around and totally see they wrote in the lines of the sub being refurbished so it can hold prisoners to try to hide the fact that it is not a sub. I felt like I was watching a cheap 1950s b- Sci-Fi it was so bad.Other than that, Van Damme is totally phoning this in. I know he's getting old, but I know he can still do the kicks and I got none of that. Barely any tasseling. A few gun battles but noting making this movie worthy of having two legendary action heroes in it. Lundgren most likely did not even do a week of work for his check he was barely in this.

Awe... I love Van Damme and Lundgren but sometimes you've gotta wonder if they could pick more suitable movies. Yes, they are 'action hero' stars but they're both getting on a bit and Van Damme in particular seems a bit past this sort of thing.It's a 'by the numbers' movie with typical unrealistic shoot-outs and scenarios, lots of set pieces and a couple of little twists which you'll probably guess.Anyway, it's better than I thought it was going to be but it's still what it is. Watch it if you're Van Damme and Lundgren fans. Don't if you're not.