Death Warrant

Name: Death Warrant
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: September 14, 1990
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 34
Cast: Art LaFleur, Conrad Dunn, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson, Hank Stone

1990

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: September 14, 1990 | TV-14

Starring: Art LaFleur, Conrad Dunn, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson, Hank Stone, Jack Bannon, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joshua John Miller, Patrick Kilpatrick, Robert Guillaume

Summary: In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

Director: Deran Sarafian

Genre(s): Action, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 89 min

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Empire William Thomas

Utterly mindless, but on its own snap, bang, and wallop terms, it works well enough. Read full review

Michael Winks

Death Warrant holds more interest than many of its genre. [21 Sep 1990, p.7]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Although Death Warrant resorts to several familiar plot devices, its storyline is a little more complex than those of most films of this genre. Moreover, secondary characters like Hawkins and Priest are believable and likable enough that we care what happens to them. Read full review

Michael Upchurch

Death Warrant has two colors: dark red, dark blue. It has two moods: brooding and brutal. It makes prison look more attractive by adding fog machines and then filming everything in slow motion. [15 Sep 1990, p.C7]

Richard Harrington

All the characters mumble, perhaps out of sympathy for the Dutch Van Damme's ongoing struggle with their native language. As for plot, it unravels more quickly than the mystery facing Van Damme. Read full review

Vincent Canby

All of the performances are terrible, but Joseph Porro's costume design is arresting. Mr. Van Damme and the other prisoner look as if they had been outfitted by an upscale outlet of a Banana Republic-type men's boutique. Read full review

Steve Jones

The best thing about the nod-inducing Death Warrant is a muscleheaded psycho called the Sandman. That figures, since you're likely to take a nap or two waiting for hero Jean-Claude Van Damme to stop taking his lumps and start busting heads. [17 Sep 1990, p.2D]

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Steven1981

Mar 22, 2020

Death Warrant is a 1990 movie that's hard to describe in terms of genre, IMDb on Google states it's an action, thriller, drama mystery but hard to really categorize to be honest. Certainly it's an 18 rated and quite violent movie unsuitable for children but I grew up with films like DeathDeath Warrant is a 1990 movie that's hard to describe in terms of genre, IMDb on Google states it's an action, thriller, drama mystery but hard to really categorize to be honest. Certainly it's an 18 rated and quite violent movie unsuitable for children but I grew up with films like Death Warrant and I must admit the opening with Van Damme shooting the Sandman guy was excellent and well directed.... Perfect slice of film making but sadly Death Warrant goes downhill from there and becomes less and less entertaining and enjoyable and pretty dull at times. Jean Claude Van Damme plays some guy named Burke and whilst in prison hangs around with black guys and also makes trouble for himself and Cynthia Gibb keeps tabs on him or something and they are seen together in at least one or two scenes in the movie. Patrick Kilpatrick as The Sandman villain was laughable but okayish I guess so not bad and brought a fair level of intimidation to Jean Claude Van Damme's character. None of the inmates if very few were actually likeable and this film being in a prison actually made me feel like I was in the prison with the actors because the film felt horrible and bad. It entertains the viewer with good fighting sequences but at times feels, flat, uninspiring and dull and sometimes makes the viewer think they are glad they aren't in prison. The film feels a bit racist towards blacks in the film with at least one racist remark made by someone in the prison facility and it feels dark and depressing. Not the best movie.… Expand

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