SunnyHello Nice effects though.

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Prismark10 I had fun spotting actors who have appeared in Eastenders, the Casualty franchise or the Doctor Who franchise. Which means that although this film is set in New Orleans, it was filmed somewhere in central or eastern Europe.Jean Claude Van Damme is a rogue cop Anthony Stowe, a heroin addict, his personal life in the sewer, his wife is pregnant by another man and other cops do not like him.Stowe is hung up in nailing a villain called Callaghan (Stephen Rea) but Callaghan was his former partner who went dirty. When one of his goons shoots Stowe in the face, he miraculously survives but goes in a coma.When Stowe emerges from his coma, he decides to become a better person, he rights some wrongs such as when he betrayed another officer and rekindles his relationship with his wife.Until Death is a serviceable film, it never amounts to be more than a time filler. You have fun seeing Brit actors attempting to do hard boiled American accents. It lacks a lot of action because it wants to focus on the story. This is a shorthand way of saying that the action star is too old for for doing the fight scenes. Stephen Rea turns up for a glorified cameo for the pay cheque.

Leofwine_draca Like a good few of the films that Van Damme's been making of late, UNTIL DEATH is an attempt to do something different. It isn't even an action film really, although there are two or three decent action scenes thrown in to please the fans. No, UNTIL DEATH is a human drama, an exploration of the human psyche and Van Damme is the character at the centre of it all. For the first time in his career, he plays a really murky character, neither out-and-out good (as in 90% of his roles) or out-and-out bad (like the killer he played in REPLICANT). No, his character is a narcotics cop who just happens to be hooked on heroin himself, and he's just as unpleasant as you'd imagine.Then, around halfway through, his life catches up with him and he's put in a coma. When he comes out of it six months later, he's a changed man and we start seeing the real, genuine side of his character without all the rubbish. What makes all this more than watchable is the actor himself. I keep saying this, but Van Damme has really grown over the years and he puts his heart into his performance here. I can't fault his acting, and indeed he's the best actor in the production. He certainly puts the likes of a slumming Stephen Rea and the awful Selina Giles to shame.In any case, the story is engaging, moves in quite a lot of different directions, and Simon Fellows does an okay job behind the camera. This one was shot in Bulgaria, but you wouldn't know it, as it has a slick, glossy Hollywood look. Once again, there are a couple of guys out of the UK TV series EASTENDERS hanging around, Gary Beadle and Stephen Lord, and they're both pretty good in their parts. This can be quite a depressing film in parts and if you're looking for excitement you'll find none, because it isn't about that. Instead it's an intense, dark human drama and Van Damme alone holds it all together.

Thanos Karagioras "Until Death" is just a movie to spend your time, nothing more. In this movie we have a dirty cop (Anthony Stowe / Jean-Claude Van Damme) who is addicted on heroin, and everyone else dislikes him even his wife (Selina Giles).On the other hand we have gunfights, arguments, many action scenes and surprisingly not much martial arts. So as we can understand in this movie we see Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a different than the other which he had played. I also liked very much the interpretation of Stephen Rea (Gabriel Callaghan).Finally this movie has to remember it not only as an action movie but also as a drama movie.

Claudio Carvalho In New Orleans, the abusive narcotic detective Anthony Stowe (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a dirty cop, addicted in heroin and booze, hated by his colleagues and divorcing from his wife Valerie (Selina Giles). While trying to arrest his former partner and drug lord Gabriel Callaghan (Stephen Rea), the mission fails, two undercover officers are killed and the drug, the money and the monitoring tapes vanish. Later, Tony is shot by a criminal in the head and miraculously does not die. After months in coma, he wakes up trying to fix the errors of his past life.After many bad movies, Jean Claude Van-Damme finally makes a very good film. His character is very well developed in a story that uses clichés, but is also interesting, full of action and without a final redemption with a happy end. When the viewer sees this movie, wait for the credits because there is an important footage of the missing surveillance tapes, disclosing what happened in the house and how the officers were killed. I hope this movie be a milestone and a second chance in the career of Van Damme, and like his character and Phoenix, he raises from the ashes to please his fans. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Até a Morte" ("Until the Death")