Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Laura Harring

The ever-limber Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in the entertainingly over-the-top action flick Derailed. The plot has to do with a deadly virus on a runaway train, but that's hardly the point--w...( read more  read more... )hat makes the movie fly along is the ridiculous yet entirely enjoyable escalation of plot devices: not only is Van Damme on the train to protect a beautiful high-tech thief (Laura Elena Harring, Mulholland Drive), not only is the train hijacked by terrorists, not only is the virus actually released into the train's ventilation system, not only is the engine on fire, but Van Damme's family came on board to surprise him on his birthday and are now being used as pawns by the terrorists. Derailed is also loaded with spectacle: car chases, shootouts, explosions, a train collision, hand-to-hand combat, and Van Damme riding a motorcycle on top of the train--you really couldn't ask for more. Sheer trashy fun. --Bret Fetzer

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R, 89 min.

Directed by: Bob Misiorowski

Release Date: January 1, 2002

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DVD Release Date: October 15, 2002

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  • August 15, 2007
    Dammes younger days!
  • February 18, 2007
    Fantastic toy train effects, but why Laura Harring, why did you do it? And AFTER Mulholland drive too!
  • January 31, 2007
    I love Clive Owen and would plow Jennifer Aniston, but come on - anyone who didn't see the ending coming a mile away must've been half-asleep. It wasn't a twist at all - I literally figured it out 10 minutes into the movie. Still, people just can't face the fact that if Hitchco...( read more)ck had directed this very same movie in the 60's, it would be herald as a classic by now.
  • December 5, 2006
    Aren't all of his movies about the same. Blah blah blah kick some Ass. They are vaying in entertainment but all the same movie.
  • November 7, 2006
    Intrigingly smart and captivating.
  • October 14, 2009
    Typical Jean-Claude Van damme shallow junk, cheaply made. There are a few good special effects but otherwise it is an empty thriller. Laura Elena Harring does a decent job. Not very exciting, definite slow spots prevent the film from movong along at a good pace.
  • October 3, 2009
    i'd have to see it again
  • November 9, 2008
    I've seen many of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies I'm sure I've seen this one I like action movies I know this one was good.
  • October 27, 2008
    Not quite Van Damme's best effort here but not his worst either. Its a B flick of course with average acting and fight scenes. The movie reminds me of Seagal's "Under Siege 2" about terrorists and trains.... Anyway if you are a Van Damme fan you know what u get.
  • July 8, 2008
    amazing, the first Van Damme film i ever saw, i fell in love with his movies after this flick. AMAZING!

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