Austrian secret agent Jean-Claude Van Damme (as Jacques Kristoff) must find tough but sexy Laura Harring (as Galina Konstantin) and bring her back to officials by train. She is the woman stealing something in the opening minutes. It's smallpox virus. Nasty foreign agent Tomas Arana (as Mason Cole) wants to derail the mission. Having vials of smallpox on a train with secret agents and terrorists means danger for the passengers. Also on board is Mr. Van Damme's wife Susan Gibney (as Madeline). Van Damme's real-life son Kristopher Van Varenberg plays his movie son and shows off a couple of martial arts kicks...
"Derailed" should have been a better action thriller. There is a great deal of action, some of it standard and some of it substandard. We should expect that these were the best takes, edited together to make the best possible film. Still, the production looks sloppy. It appears as if editing errors were not taken care of, at some point. Writers weren't alerted to the fact that, if an infected woman was tossed off the train, the world is contaminated. Granted, details may not have been considered important. Probably, the goal was to get the Damme film out to exhibitors and make as much money as possible before word got out.
*** Derailed (5/19/02) Bob Misiorowski ~ Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tomas Arana, Laura Harring, Susan Gibney
"Derailed" should have been a better action thriller. There is a great deal of action, some of it standard and some of it substandard. We should expect that these were the best takes, edited together to make the best possible film. Still, the production looks sloppy. It appears as if editing errors were not taken care of, at some point. Writers weren't alerted to the fact that, if an infected woman was tossed off the train, the world is contaminated. Granted, details may not have been considered important. Probably, the goal was to get the Damme film out to exhibitors and make as much money as possible before word got out.
*** Derailed (5/19/02) Bob Misiorowski ~ Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tomas Arana, Laura Harring, Susan Gibney