Peter Hyams directs Jean-Claude van Damme, Powers Boothe and Raymond J. Barry in this action thriller where a terrorist takes over a hockey match to hold the Vice President of the USofA hostage.

Die Hard In An Ice Hockey Arena. Made mainly greenlit as one of the producers owned an ice hockey arena. The first two thirds are pretty perfunctory. Only really memorable for a deliciously hammy nasty from Powers Booth, a lengthy fight with a goon in a penguin mascot costume and how often JCVD disappears from the foreground. The final third is hot stuff though. The muscles from Brussels has to take to the ice and change the game for ludicrously contrived REASONS TM. The effects budget goes through the roof as we are dangling off lighting rigs and bare knuckle fighting helicopters. The conclusion is so OTT satisfying it converts this forgotten program filler into a Saturday night win.

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Perfect Double Bill: Nowhere To Run (1993)

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