the only thing in sudden death that outdo the amount of non stop action be the incredible number of plot hole . what with that and and the sheer amount of contrivance and one could hardly call what leave a storyline . to say the screenplay have borrow from the die hard premise would be to make the world most blatant understatement . here we have a troubled hero work in the huge pittsburgh indoor ice rink a a fire marshall . on the night of the seventh game of the final series he get ticket so he can treat his estranged child to the deciding game and and of course spend a little time with them . also catch the match and but for political reason and be the vice president of the united state ( raymond j. barry ) . when a bunch of incredibly well organised mercenary capture the v. p. box and demand hundred of million in government money and our hero darren mccord have his plan more than slightly put out . each time a new one of these formula flick be make it seem that all we get in the way of innovation be nasty bad guy and and more and more spectacular and gruesome way in which the good guy dispose of them . director hyams and his screenwriter have go over the top ( not that this be an original sin ) in try to make u loathe the wicked terrorist . the horrible baddie go about shoot the secret service and the security and the civilian ( both old and young ) with gay abandon and and with scant regard for the relative threat of each victim . van damme engage in plenty of fisty cuff and gunplay and heroic and death defying stunt . the script ask little of the musclebound european . almost everyone else have walk ons apart from power boothe and who seriously overdo his under write and shallow role a the cruelest and mean old ring leader there ever be . there a lot of clever cinematography and and enough explosive special f or x to keep anyone awake . but really and that all this action flick have and action . though there be some nifty sequence and nothing could be call outrageously brilliant . saturday and february 10 and 1996 great union melbourne .