Jean-Claude-Van-Damme Movie Reviews

jean-claude van damme is the best, and with this collection you'll know what i mean. with movies like these you'll love to buy more of his movies and u might even turn out a van damme fan....like me. jean-claude van damme is the best and always will be. Don't miss out on your chance to have your own JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME COLLECTION

Filmed on location in Thailand (the home of Muay Thai Boxing), this film has the atmosphere and authenticity that cannot be faked in the studio. The film has the perfect combination of attributes that makes it one of those rare classics. The skills of Van Damme are trully spectacular to watch. This film focuses on real telent rather than stupidly expensive Hollywood sets and effects for the retard. If you ain't seen it, and you appreciate everything mentioned, then you simply MUST watch it. Trust me; you wont be dissapointed. Oh, almost forgot, no.2 is a 1 star film.

A collection of film clips from some of the best. Great fast paced action excerpts from movies of Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Samo Hung & other greats. Fun to watch! Dont expect a story. This is good for reference & previews of movies of this genre to add to your collection.

This could be the best martial arts tape I have ever had the pleasure of purchasing. The scenes contained in this compilation are some of the very best ever caught on film and until just recently, thanks to the popularity of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, had never been seen by a U.S. audience.

This tape basically gives you a history of the martial arts in film. It starts with the granddaddy of them all Bruce Lee in some amazing and rare footage. The tape then goes into detail about the stars of today (today being the lates to mid 80's) and shows a number of clips from their movies.

I highly recommend this tape for any Jackie Chan fan or Martial Laws Sammo Hung. They have clips of these stars in their prime when the could arguably called the biggest action stars in the world. Yes the U.S. rarely opened the doors to these Asian stars who took most of the rest of the world by storm.

Towards the end of the tape it takes you into more of the cult aspects of martial art films. Mostly films with wire work and mystical plots even Ninjas!

If you are unsure of getting that one Jackie Chan tape or that one Jet Li tape, take a look at this one first. You will not be disappointed!

This is the best martial arts Documentary
about martial arts in film I ever seen.
I real hope 20th century fox can put this film
on DVD. I'll buy it on the spot.

I liked this documentary ok, it's interesting in places. 'Curse of the Dragon'is produced by Fred Weintraub, who made Bruce Lee's last and best movie 'Enter the Dragon'. It's written by Davis Miller, who wrote the book 'Tao of Bruce lee'. I read 'Tao of Bruce Lee' before buying 'Curse of the Dragon'. 'Tao of Bruce Lee' is much, much better than 'Curse of the Dragon'.

I bought this video actually from the locala store...It's a very good biography interviewinghis closest friends and family. It gives you a good idea of what type of person he is. Ummm, but the reason why it's not a 5 star rating according to my opinion is cuz it didn't realyl talk too much abotu his movies and not too much about his son, Brandon Lee...but besides that, i wouild havae given it a 5 star rating...a good biography i must say...

Learn about Lee the way close friends knew him. Lots of footage of the great master in action. Also, clip of a Brandon Lee interview. Learn about his life and untimely death.

I have not seen a Van Damme Flick in years, and years. I was a little dissapointed to see Jean Claude Van Damme lose his pretty boy looks. However, his acting has drastically improved. This was a good movie, there were parts that dragged on a little too long at times, mostly the flashbacks of his wife. The storyline is: After Kyle (Van Damme) kills his wife's murderer. He is incarcerated into this European prison (mostly full of Russians). He learns that money can buy the guards, and that the guards are very anti-American. Kyle is often mistreated and targeted because it. After some brutal treatment Kyle gives up and tries to hang himself and when he fails to succeed in the hanging.... he decides to bulge up and pretty much fight off his attackers (which happens to be in this fighting ring that the warden has set up to pit criminals against each other in order to make a buck or two) Kyle decides to fight the other inmates and as time goes on, Kyle decides with the help of another inmate he no longer wants to fight for the wardens profits. What will happen? Watch and see.. Like I said the movie is good, just the flash backs and hallucinations of his dead wife's presence kind of dwelled a little too much for me. There is violence in this movie of all types: Rapes, Stabbings, fistfights, and etc.. Very brief nudity. Not recommended for kids. Also, I would like to comment about the DVD... I felt the images in the darker scenes were a little grainy, did anyone else?? There is also a featurette on the disc that shows all the work put into the movie and Ringo Lam in my opionion would be one TOUGH director to work for. There is a trailer for the film, and your choice of Widescreen or Full Screen. This movie is a good rental, and worth only a purchase for die hard "Van Damme fans".

Van Damme gives a great acting role as well as fighting. I am not talking about splits and spin kicks but niddy griddy street fights. The supporting cast was great as was the plot. I highly recommend this movie to everyone, not just Van Damme fans.

I've never actually sat down and seen a Van Damme movie before, mostly because I'm not an action or martial arts fan. But for some reason I chose to see this movie. I must say Van Damme is a good actor and this movie really touched me. I love every second of it. I loved the way they did the flashbacks, the fight scenes, and the plot was great too. This is my first Van Damme movie but I can now guarantee it wont be my last. I cannot wait to see what he does next.

If you're a Van Damme fan or not you need to see this movie.

I have not seen a Van Damme Flick in years, and years. I was a little dissapointed to see Jean Claude Van Damme lose his pretty boy looks. However, his acting has drastically improved. This was a good movie, there were parts that dragged on a little too long at times, mostly the flashbacks of his wife. The storyline is: After Kyle (Van Damme) kills his wife's murderer. He is incarcerated into this European prison (mostly full of Russians). He learns that money can buy the guards, and that the guards are very anti-American. Kyle is often mistreated and targeted because it. After some brutal treatment Kyle gives up and tries to hang himself and when he fails to succeed in the hanging.... he decides to bulge up and pretty much fight off his attackers (which happens to be in this fighting ring that the warden has set up to pit criminals against each other in order to make a buck or two) Kyle decides to fight the other inmates and as time goes on, Kyle decides with the help of another inmate he no longer wants to fight for the wardens profits. What will happen? Watch and see.. Like I said the movie is good, just the flash backs and hallucinations of his dead wife's presence kind of dwelled a little too much for me. There is violence in this movie of all types: Rapes, Stabbings, fistfights, and etc.. Very brief nudity. Not recommended for kids. Also, I would like to comment about the DVD... I felt the images in the darker scenes were a little grainy, did anyone else?? There is also a featurette on the disc that shows all the work put into the movie and Ringo Lam in my opionion would be one TOUGH director to work for. There is a trailer for the film, and your choice of Widescreen or Full Screen. This movie is a good rental, and worth only a purchase for die hard "Van Damme fans".

Van Damme gives a great acting role as well as fighting. I am not talking about splits and spin kicks but niddy griddy street fights. The supporting cast was great as was the plot. I highly recommend this movie to everyone, not just Van Damme fans.

I've never actually sat down and seen a Van Damme movie before, mostly because I'm not an action or martial arts fan. But for some reason I chose to see this movie. I must say Van Damme is a good actor and this movie really touched me. I love every second of it. I loved the way they did the flashbacks, the fight scenes, and the plot was great too. This is my first Van Damme movie but I can now guarantee it wont be my last. I cannot wait to see what he does next.

If you're a Van Damme fan or not you need to see this movie.

I would love to be able to give this movie the five stars it deserves for sheer excitement. But despite being a massive fan, not even I can forgive RJ's 'Bruce Lee dance'(it really is sad!)and the somewhat less than astounding acting. With that said, the rest of the film is great.

The movie follows a simialr path to most of the martial arts films that engulfed our video shops in the eighties. I.e. boy gets beaten up, boy gets trained by master etc. etc....However this film does offer some differences, firstly the master just happens to be Bruce Lee arisen from the dead and the 'baddie' happens to be Jean Claude Van Damme in his first film role. Although revenge (that all to common driving force behind so many movies in the genre) is the original motivating factor behind Jason's (the boy) training, the movie surprisingly moves away from this to give a refreshingly Gung ho! Adrenaline filled finale which will have you cheering from your seat in true Rocky style.

Fans of Hong Kong cinemas will probably criticise the fighting on display, but as a Karate practitioner myself, I was very impressed with technical side of the fighting, the powerful, well choreographed fight scenes once again bring me to compare against the Rocky films in their ability to really get the audience involved, to the point where you can almost smell the blood and sweat and feel each body blow. This is one of those films which really motivates you, whenever I don't feel like training I just put this into the vcr and two hours later i'll be hitting the bags harder than anyone else in the class. So what are you wasting time reading my review for? just go and get this film now.

If you like bad flicks like the 80s Bronson actionfilms you wíll like this one. Van Damme on the whole cover but not in the whole film. Instead, you always have to watch the famous and popular Kurt McKinney and his dumb black friend called R.J. After 3 humiliations in the order karate club,love,father McKinney who is called Jason asks BRUCE LEE to help him. But there's a problem: Bruce Lee is dead. But there's also a clever director who probably said to the crew: "Solving this problem is easy for a man like me. We'll take the next Asian guy who walks around here, give him 100 dollars and tell him he's Bruce Lee now." And so they did. Bruce Lee appears and helps Jason to become a true master. After doing this in about 2 weeks Jason goes out and takes back the friendship with his father, takes back his babe and keeps peace in the karate scene of Seattle. Sounds strange? IT IS strange! But you will like the bad dialogues, the even worse karate (or kickbox?) scenes and "Bruce

Lee", the worst imitator of all time. I don't know if you will like the film but I, for myself, liked it very much.

Where do I begin? This movie is one of those memorable martial arts sagas that only comes across once in a great while. Where else would I have learned that "karate is not to be used aggressively"?

This movie deals with the serious conflict in the late 80's when Russian crime syndicates attempted to take over several karate schools in the Western United States.

Anyways, this film is so full of classic material, I don't know where to start.

*The unbelievable sidekick, R.J. Madison who steals the show and breaks a few shelves with a freestyle combined with some break-dancing moves.

*A father's tough decision to leave his karate school to start a new life in Seattle as a bartender at a bar that does not allow dogs or "customers under the age of 2".

*R.J. & Jason declaring "No Retreat, No Surrender", only to be sent running away, seconds later by a 40-year-old Burger King employee.

*The controversial second coming of Bruce Lee (whose figure and bad dubbing seem to have changed since we last saw him).

Such great one-liners as

"Alright, who pee'd in the pool?"

"Jason, what are you doing?"

"I'm gonna be back and I'll get you".

"Check me out, dudes".

"CHI POWER!"

Many more memorable lines and moments in this comin-of-age tale of karate, jheri-curls, and palm streets in Seattle.

The plot is a Victorian conceit: twins separated at birth,one becomes gangster, the other a playboy. Van Damme has more boyish, Gallic charm here than in any other film. When I saw it in theater, I thought it might set him on track to non-martial stardom, but it didn't. Best thing in DOUBLE IMPACT is body-builder/fitness guru Cory Everson as a sexy-wicked, head-scissoring lesbian assassin. (Her only other movie role that I'm aware of, and even juicier if you like your Amazons lethal, is in BALLISTIC.)

I liked this movie. I think my favorite Van Damme movies are this one, Sudden Death and Time Cop. It would be really cool if they could have included the commercial for this movie. I don't know if you remember it but it went something like this: Van Damme in a double role... It's twice the punches, twice the kicks, it's too Damme much! Jean Claude also has my respect in that he voiced his irritation in the Hollywood crowd who stood in protest. Jean Claude gets five stars and my respect. You're the man Jean!

I remember this one like it was yesterday; one of the earliest Van Damme vehicles that actually involved something approaching a modest budget (well, they total two Mercedes in one scene) and a script!

What this film did right was the inclusion of multiple villains, necessary not only because there are two Van Dammes, but because all of the classic martial arts films involved many enemies as well. Recurring VD villains include Peter Malota (the Spanish fighter in later film "The Quest"), whose blue-lit kickboxing scene with Jean-Claude is one of the best in recent memory, and famed "Enter The Dragon" baddie (and longtime martial arts staple) Bolo Yeung.

It helps that Van Damme also has veteran character actor Geoffrey Lewis on board; that kind of gruff, Sam Elliott presence makes up for a lot of acting acumen that is lacking in the rest of the cast. Peter Scarfe stars as the embodiment of evil, and Alonna Shaw as the embodiement.

The pacing is good; the script has some howlers, and the shooting locations are to die for. Look for a very early cameo by Julie Strain!

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as a soldier drawn into the world of modern day gladiators fighting for the amusement of the rich in this fast-moving actoin thriller. This movie is one of the better Van Damme action flims that I have seen.

This is the best Jean-Claude Van Damme movie ever. From family to fighting to family, JCVD fights for money to help his brother's wife and daughter out. And at the end, JCVD fights a big guy where there is no rules, but hard-hitting action. Have people placed the wrong bet? Watch it and find out. The movie has the action and a great powerful movie score which makes this the best Van Damme movie ever. I wish I could own this on DVD, but Australia and New Zealand aren't releasing it on Region 4. Only if they did.

Do not be misguided by the fact that this movie was shot back in 1989, and thus be led to assume that this is another one of the low budget, b-movies that Van Damme used to make in the 1980's.

AWOL/Lionheart, is arguably his best film ever.

The story begins in what is a typical modern Legion Etrangere camp somewhere in North Africa. Van Damme plays a ranker soldier, Leon, who is serving in one of the Legion's crack North African detachments. Here, we get the very rare glimpse of what is like to be a modern Legionnaire: Both the scenery and camp are very realistic, rigid discipline prevalent, with emphasis being put on the soldiers' perfect fitness through physical training and manual labour.

Suddenly, Leon receives a letter from his only brother's wife who lives in the USA, informing him that his brother was beaten to death by some villains, and that she needs someone both to avenge his death and take care of her and her little daughter.

Rigid almost inhuman discipline in the Legion is once again underlined, when Private Leon asks to see his Commanding Officer, an impressive blond Frenchman, every inch a soldier. After hearing the reasons why Pvt. Leon asks for a leave, his CO coolly denies on the grounds that he firstly needs him "down here", and secondly that Pvt. Leon's contract with the Legion excludes furloughs.

From here onwards, the movie ceases to be static, and becomes a fast paced action adventure, as we follow Van Damme's risky escape from the camp to some North African muslim seaport, where he seeks to obtain passage on one of the Merchant Ships there, to the USA. In the meantime, his French CO has reported him as AWOL, and he has ordered two of his best NCO's to locate and return the deserter back to his unit.

Van Damme evades his pursuers, and signs on a 1950's Steam Turbine General Freighter as a Wiper, in order to pay for his passage.

When he finally arrives in the USA, we see him wandering the streets of New York, dressed in Navy fatigues looking for a job. He finally makes his way under a bridge, where the odd black bookmaker is staging a no-holds barred street-fighting tournament of sorts. The bookmaker, seeing Van Damme's incredible physique, suggests that he should fight in the next match in return for a fee. Asking his name, Van Damme replies slowly in French, "LE-ON", whereupon, the bookmaker hears "Lion" and proclaims him the "Lion". Thus, a new street-fighter star is born.

Van Damme, keeps fighting for profit, and his successes attract the attention of a gorgeous Nordic-American female manager, who is organizing fights for the entertainment of the Jet-Set NYC citizens. She falls in love with him, and acting as his manager, arranges his participation in high-class private fighting matches for the rich. Van Damme wins fame and glory, but his mind is always with his dead brother, and his widow and daughter.

After doing a lot of digging, he finally manages to locate his brother widow and daugter, whereupon one of the most touching scenes of the movie take place, when Van Damme meets his brother's daughter and widow, amid hugs and celebration.

But, his pursuers from the Legion, follow close behind, looking for a chance to seize him. Finally, they manage to track him down, in some makeshift arena where Van Damme is about to meet the late World Wrestling Federation Champion Andre the Giant, in a match to the death, which would be the culmination of his career as U.S. fighter. As the match progresses, we see the two Legionnaire NCO's, formerly his bitter enemies, having changed into stalwart supporters of his, witnessing first-hand his bravery and fighting skill.

After the match is over, the French NCO's make themselves known, and take Van Damme into their custody, despite his brother's widow protests. Then follows the most touching scene in the film, with Van Damme hugging his brother's daughter, tears flowing in his eyes. The scene is so compelling, that even the tough French Legionnaires, after looking each other, cannot avoid to shed the odd tear.

After putting Van Damme in the car, the French NCO's drive only about half a mile down the road, when the car stops suddenly, and Van Damme is set free, in order to return to his dead brother's family.

A truly great movie, one of Van Damme's few movies, which I enjoyed seeing over and over again. The movie will be loved by, not only from those who admire the French Foreign Legion, but from martial arts fans as well, not to say anything of Van Damme's fans, who will absolutely love it. It is one of these rarest of the rare low budget movies that, having started with meager resources, by luck and hard work are turned into pearls.

The hero's devotion and love to his only brother, deeply touched me, and I think also struck a chord deep within the souls of all who saw it. I do not think that there is a single man, who would let his dead brother's wife and daughter suffer, no matter if one was half the planet away from the other. Sometimes, duty to the dead brother's family comes first from duty to country.

A truly outstanding movie:buy it.

While it may not have been a victory for the acting world, "Bloodsport" was more responsible than any other movie for launching the career of a certain high-kicking, strongly accented Belgian action hero. "Bloodsport" tells the (kind of) true story of Frank Dux, a Franco-American army officer who goes AWOL in order to honor his Japanese master by fighting in a secret full-contact tournament called the Kumite. Along the way, he gets busy with a leggy American reporter and befriends a hulking fellow competitor (played by Donald Gibb, best known as Ogre from the "Revenge Of The Nerds"). Of course, Van Damme movies are not known for their moral ambiguity, and this one is no exception. The bad guy role in this particular film goes to Chong Li (played by the very imposing Bolo Yeung), who is, in the grand tradition of Van Damme movie villains, PURE AND UNMITIGATED EVIL. He intentionally cripples (or kills) his opponents, taunts Van Damme after beating up his friend, and generally looks mean and scary. You just know Van Damme and Chong Li are going to meet in the finals (isn't it just a major coincidence that they're on opposite sides of the bracket?), so suspense goes pretty much out the window right away. However, things like plot and character devlopment aren't exactly requirements for a Van Damme movie anyway. What "Bloodsport" does offer is frequent fight montages where hard-bodied martial artists do the kinds of things that look really freaking cool even if you can't completely follow what they're doing. And of course, you get to watch Van Damme dispatch a variety of foes with impossibly fast and limber movements on his way to the championship. And what else are Van Damme movies for? Sure, the plot and acting are negligible, but "Bloodsport" stands as a milestone of the mindless action genre. So shut your brain down for ninety minutes and enjoy.

This movie was pretty much like Kickboxer,he fights a dude that hurts his friend.This and Kickboxer are me top fav Van Damne movie ever.

This movie great, I fell in love with it when I hired it from my local video store. I own it on video now, but I would recommend DVD, because DVD would enable you to do some slow motion on those fight scenes! Very Cool! But thanks to the makers of the film there is already cool slow motion inserted in the right places!

I would get bored seeing the whole movie over and over, thats why I watch the final fight over and over! Its so cool! There are some other cool fight scenes in the film, but the final fight takes the gold!

My recommendation: BUY THE DVD!