Until Death

2007
15
1h 41m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

11K

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Crime Drama Thriller

Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things ... Read allStowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

11K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
A lot of the scenes were shot in Bulgaria. In particular, the school in the movie is the American College of Sofia.

Goofs
The doctors say they took the bullet out of his head, as it was lodged in his skull. However when he is shot there is clearly an exit wound as blood bursts out of his head, implying that the bullet exited.

Quotes
Valerie Stowe: Anthony, I'm pregnant.
Anthony Stowe: [drunk and high] How could you forget to...
Valerie Stowe: The baby isn't yours.
Anthony Stowe: ...You fucked him! You fucked Callaghan!
Valerie Stowe: [throws her wedding ring at Anthony] You're sick! Don't ever talk to me ever again!
[storms out of the restaurant]
Anthony Stowe: Try not to fuck the valet on your way out!

Crazy credits
The ending credits are interrupted by a take showing what really happened at the heist at the beginning of the movie.

Alternate versions
There are three versions of the film:
1) The editing of the version released by Sony in the US was supervised by Van Damme; it runs 101 minutes and features a 'happy' ending.
2) A longer edit of the film was released in Europe (by Momentum in the UK and by e-m-s in Germany), and was supervised by the film's director Simon Fellows; this version of the film runs around 107 minutes and features a far more downbeat ending. Some of the fight scenes (especially in the film's last sequence) are edited quite differently and the gunfight at the climax is extended, and although this version of the film features more footage than the American cut, some material (including a gunshot to the head) is missing from this 'director's cut'.
3) a workprint is in existence, which runs 113 minutes in length and features the exclusive footage from the Van Damme-supervised American release integrated within the framework of the European 'director's cut'. This version of the film is said to have been released on DVD in Scandinavia and in Belgium.

Connections
Referenced in Best of the Worst: Our DVD and Blu-ray Collection (2019)

Soundtracks
Bad Old Man
Written by Stephen Jones (as Stephen Michael Jones)
Performed by Babybird
Published by Chrysalis Music Ltd.(ASCAP)
Courtesy of The Echo Label Ltd.

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Featured review

6/10

This is a remake and nobody noticed.

I watched this on DVD today and was stunned to see that it's a nearly scene for scene remake of one of my favorite Hong Kong films, the 1995 crime melodrama Loving You (ok, bad title) directed by Johnny To that starred Lau Ching Wan and Carman Lee. I don't understand why the original Hong Kong flick is mentioned nowhere in the credits but nearly every single scene and plot element and much of the dialog comes directly from the Hong Kong film. Until Death wasn't bad, but the problem is that Jean-Claude Van Damme isn't half the actor that Lau Ching Wan, the star of the original is and director Stephen Fellows is no Johnny To. The love story between the recuperating police officer and his pregnant wife is handled much more effectively in the original. I highly recommend that anyone who enjoyed Until Death (and can tolerate watching movies with English subtitles) seek out the original version, which was released last year on DVD in Hong Kong and can purchased from places like Ebay. It's a much better movie.