etzold-lk First of all when I start watching this movie I could imagine that this is not the next Academy Award winner.But so bad!? Everything is bad: Plot, actors, production design and dialogues (german dubbing)Sorry! Does anyone really believe that a submarine is as big as shown? Come on! I guess none of the production team was ever visiting a submarine. There is no much space. The walls look like concrete walls. I do not believe what I saw.I do not know how bad the english dialogues are? But the german dubbing is only on a C-Movie level. A very good example could be heard right at the beginning of the motion picture - the shoot-out at the Hotel. JCVD's girlfriend notices that the dongle is not in her jacket/trousers. In German she says something like: "I have forgotten the dongle in the hotel. Wait here, I will get it!" The camera shows now a thing - the dongle?!? - which lies on the parking area. She runs now over to this thing, grabs it and tries to run back to JCVD and is been shot.Now my questions: Why? What? I thought the dongle has been forgotten in the hotel? And if this thing is not the dongle, what is it? And how important is it? And where is this "important' thing for the rest of the film?But one positive thing is that JCVD and Lundgren has gotten their standard German voices.Sorry for some mistakes english is not my mothertongue!

gruntledlark Glad to see that they could reuse the sets from _Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea_ after all these years. Too bad they couldn't work the flying sub into the plot .

Ian Awe... I love Van Damme and Lundgren but sometimes you've gotta wonder if they could pick more suitable movies. Yes, they are 'action hero' stars but they're both getting on a bit and Van Damme in particular seems a bit past this sort of thing.It's a 'by the numbers' movie with typical unrealistic shoot-outs and scenarios, lots of set pieces and a couple of little twists which you'll probably guess.Anyway, it's better than I thought it was going to be but it's still what it is. Watch it if you're Van Damme and Lundgren fans. Don't if you're not.

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.