Sudden Death The Rewatchables
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Sudden Death

What’s Aged the Best?

Darren McCord; Drunk Bono; action tropes; French conversation; vice-president line; doomed hostage; child acting; Van Damme; ESPN hockey

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  • The incongruity of the name Darren McCord is an aged-best choice.
  • The henchman nicknamed Drunk Bono is an aged-best choice.
  • The familiar instruction that a superior ought to see something is an aged-best action trope.
  • A villain casually shooting one hostage to establish seriousness is an aged-best trope.
  • Instant enormous bank transfers are enjoyed as an absurd action-movie convention.
  • The surprise villain reveal and immediate explanatory speech are enjoyed, while the rich-villain boast is called a terrible line.
  • The wisecracking technical specialist is an additional enjoyed trope, recognized as a Die Hard imitation.
  • Van Damme speaking French to Luc Robitaille is an aged-best choice.
  • The line asking how agents lost the vice president is enjoyed.
  • The obviously doomed annoying hostage, here the mayor’s wife, is an aged-best choice.
  • Booth’s complaint about a frightened hostage moaning is enjoyed as an outrageous line.
  • The child performances are called so bad they can become an aged-best pleasure; their exposure to the film’s violence prompts discomfort.
  • Van Damme’s performance is praised as possibly his best acting, focused sincerely on saving his children rather than sex, splits or nudity.
  • The ESPN Stanley Cup presentation is an aged-best choice.