Second in Command (2006)- Jean Claude Van Damme (2)

Director: Simon Fellows

Stars: Jean Claude Van Damme, Julie Cox, & Alan McKenna

Genre: Action/Thriller

MPAA Rating: R (violence and some language)

Running Time: 92 Mins

Tagline:” It's time to take charge! “

Synopsis:

{According to IMDB}

"Jean Claude plays an official who's just been appointed as Second In Command to the U.S.Ambassador at an American Embassy in a small, turbulent Eastern European nation.When local insurgents attempt a coup d'etat, the nation's President takes refuge inside the embassy.The embassy is then besieged by the well-armed insurgents.The U.S. Ambassador is killed in the ensuing action, an now it's up to Jean Claude and the embassy's small detachment of U.S. Marines to fend off the attackers "

Discussion

Like the big fan I am of Van Damme and Seagal, I never miss any of their DTV flicks. I know they almost always suck, But I watch them still, for what they are, mindless low budget action flicks. This time we have Van Damme playing  an Officer appointed Second in Command to an ambassador. He must protect an Eastern European President from being assassinated by extremists.

You know,  I wasn’t all to impressed with this one, Van Damme doesn’t do a bad job, but he barely fights here,  I see his movies for the kicking ass, not for the plot; and as far as plot goes, this one is very recycled. I’ve seen Dolph Lundgren and Chuck Norris do this type of themed movie a couple dozen times.  I still give props for the directing, it wasn’t badly shot nor edited. Though there are some scenes where it was a bit too dark to tell what exactly was going on.

Another issue I had was that it was too freaking slow, call me an adrenaline junkie but there was barely an action in this movie. Yeah, there was shooting and whatnot but no roundhouse kicks from Van Damme. I wanted to see some God Damn Van Dammage Lol.

DVD

I actually bought this one a couple years ago; just saw it now for the first time. I don’t think I will be keeping it in my library for too long.

Video

Shot entirely in HD cameras, there was really no problem with the transfer they used. I up converted this one in my Blu Ray player to 1080p and looked spot on HD.  Only issue was some scenes where dark, as I mentioned before.

Audio

The audio was all right, not too impressive for a 5.1. Surround. There were scenes were gunfire sounded like fire crackers.

Bottom Line:

If you’re not a fan of Van Damme, I would say pass, you will most likely hate the movie. But if you like action and Van Damme give it a rent or wait for a TV channel to show it.

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