Motompa
Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Jerrie
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
hypernephelist
Just watching the preview I less interest to watch this movie.. really looks like old movie, are they using historic camera?
nebk
Black Water is a mediocre action movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme as a framed agent who has to escape a submarine on which he is imprisoned. The rogue agents who set him up are also there and trying to obtain information from him. And that's more or less the plot of the film. Helping JCVD is a prisoner played by Dolph Lundgren as well as a good agent who is not a field operative but found herself on the submarine as support. Overall this film has elements of Escape Plan mixed with Under Siege but is nowhere near those films in terms of action or acting. The fact is that the story is weak and cliched and makes the film drag on and on in the last forty minutes or so. There is the usual reveal of the traitor/mole and it's no surprise. The action is mostly implausible given that there are bullets flying all over the submarine with no consequence. And the submarine for the most part looks like a cheap set and way to big to actually convince anyone of its authenticity. The end is also unsurprising and seen in countless other c grade movies. I would rate it around 3.5-4/10. Best avoided.
Michael Ledo
Jean-Claude Van Damme is imprisoned on a Hollywood submarine with the proverbial file wanted by his boss gone rogue. Dolph Lundgren is also imprisoned there in a role slightly more than what he had in "Altitude" a film just as bad. This is a submarine that is a lot bigger on the inside than outside, aka 'Dave Made a Maze." Not a single bulkhead had a curve. They shot a lot of bullets into it. I am not sure what powered the submarine, but I don't think they had room for any kind of propulsion because it was filled with bad cliches and bad dialogue.Now when a sub "takes on water" the collision alarm is sounded (I'm not sure what that was in the film) and the sub does an emergency surface. It doesn't wait until the flooding is stopped. Less depth means less outside water pressure and less flooding. Physics 101.Our heroes battle the gang that doesn't shoot straight, even at close range with bullets never bouncing off a steel wall.Guide: F-word. Implied sex. Brief nudity. No splits.
J. (CountJonnie)
Both Van Damme and Lundgren are on the decline, with memories of Expendables and JCVD, as proof that action heroes still exist and can sometimes even act. Alas, Black Water doesn't even come close.Black Water is about JCVD being a CIA agent carrying secret information and gets framed . After being caught he finds himself on a top secret submarine prison, where Lundgren is another inmate. Van Damme has to escape and fight his way through the bad guys, and try to prove that he is the good guy.First of all, the story is a mess. Which is forgivable, if at least the actors seem to be having what resembles fun. Let me tell you, Van Damme does NOT have fun. He looks older, more tired and uninspired than ever. Maybe Lundgren is enjoying himself, if only he knew what accent he is supposed to have in this movie, where he is trying to be a German. If all above is not bad enough, than that might be because you are expecting some decent action scenes. Boy are you in for disappointment, because not a single person seems motivated to throw one decent high or spinning kick.Sorry, if you expected a glimmer of Expendables. No semi-decent acting, no fun buddy stuff and hardly any action worth remembering.
