Enemies Closer

Enemies Closer (2013)

Keep your friends close

After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no communication to the outside world, Henry finds himself face to face with Clay, a man with a personal vendetta against Henry who has returned for retribution. Now, the two mortal enemies must make a choice: put aside their past and work together, or die alone at the hands of the drug runners, a ruthless gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve their lost cargo.

Date of release
2013-12-04
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (213)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Thriller, Action
Director
Peter Hyams

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Bulgaria

Enemies Closer is a 2013 American action thriller film shot and directed by Peter Hyams and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tom Everett Scott, Orlando Jones and Linzey Cocker. It is Hyams' third directorial collaboration with Van Damme, following 1994's Timecop and 1995's Sudden Death, and the first of these to feature the actor in a villainous role. The plot follows former Navy SEAL Henry Taylor (Scott) who is marked for death by the mourning brother of a comrade he left behind, only to have to team up with him when they both become targets of the deranged crime lord Xander.

Production

Director Peter Hyams was offered the film by producer Moshe Diamant, and accepted it both as a show of friendship and as a stylistic exercise. Hyams is usually his own cinematographer, and a well known fan of night photography.

Peter Hyams had helped cementing his son John's directing career by serving as his cinematographer on two Universal Soldier sequels produced by Diamant, and the younger Hyams returned the favor by editing this film for his father.

Van Damme was initially going to play the main protagonist, but Hyams asked him to switch to the part of drug trafficker Xander, as he had already directed him twice in heroic roles and did not want to retread the same ground. The Belgian was not easily convinced, as he had just played the appropriately named Jean Vilain in The Expendables 2, and demanded his new role be fleshed out so as to differentiate it from the classic archetype he had port…

Tom Everett Scott, who took over Van Damme's intended part, is a longtime friend of John Hyams, with whom he attended Syracuse University. After Dark returnee Orlando Jones previously appeared in Peter Hyams' remake of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. He also received a producer credit this time around.

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