Billy Rieck, Carlos Gomez, Chris Moir, Ivo Tonchev, Jean-Claude Van Damme ...( see more  see more... ) , Juan Fernández , Kaloian Vodenicharov , Lawrence Taylor , Lloyd Battista , Marnie Alton , Michael Bailey Smith , Raicho Vasilev , Veselin Kalanovski

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

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R, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Ringo Lam

Release Date: January 1, 2003

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DVD Release Date: November 25, 2003

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  • September 14, 2009
    "Don't let them do you into something you're not..."

    Van Damme. He is such a great actor... I long for the times, basically the 90's, when we the viewers were given such "classics" as 'Kickboxer', 'Bloodsport', 'Cyborg' and 'Universal Soldier'. Since those movies, all we've got ...( read more)is crap after crap. 'In Hell' is no exception...

    Damme plays a good guy who gets his wife murdered. He does the obvious thing any man would do and kills the guy. Gets sentenced in prison were he loses himself... Only to be found again.

    During the film. Damme looked like a "normal" guy, then when he was really down, he looked like a drunken Jesus and when he was a crazy son of a bitch, he looked like an Italian gigolo.. Sounds funny and was funny.

    'In Hell' was, yet again, another failure by Damme. The film has no interesting story to be told, bad acting and action scenes that aren't anything special. I didn't know what to think about the characters. There was this one guy who was a crazy killer who was a bit too philosophical. Nothing but a comedic figure...

    Nothing special here. For those who still like to remember Damme as an action star from the 90's, stick to the films I mentioned in the beginning. Although, I'd like to see 'JCVD' which is out now. Here he tried to act... once again, but in 'JCVD', I heard that he is just himself.
  • May 11, 2007
    Actually a great film and well acted by all
  • January 30, 2007
    I'm shocked. It's a really good Van Damme film. If you like prison films at all this one's a winner.
  • December 22, 2009
    Very dumb, but also a lot of fun.

    The story is slim and just gives an excuse to move from one bout of violence to the next. Shawshank Redemption this is not. At the end of the day, it is a vehicle for JCVD to do what he does best and he does a grand job. He's not a great actor...( read more), but he is good with the action and he certainly delivers in this respect.
  • December 1, 2009
    One of VanDamme's better movies...
  • August 19, 2009
    alot like death warrant, this cant decide whether it wants to be an art film or mainstream, tries to mix shawshank redemption with martial arts and ends up horribly wrong.
  • August 15, 2009
    van damme's is well known for his action movies and this one was just the same but a good story.
  • July 27, 2009
    This movie has a lot of ups & downs but overall it is worth watching. This is one of the few movies in which the Russian characters speak the language well, this may not be important to most but to those with a Russian speaking background this helps keep the mood of the film as i...( read more)ntended. The brief Charlie Manson look for Van Damme was quite entertaining.
  • July 10, 2009
    realmente grande actor,aprecio a sua arte.
  • June 12, 2009
    Definitely a direct to video kind've movie. Im a big Van Damme fan so any movie hes in Ill watch. Story was weak and fight scenes got old but still atleast worth renting.

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