JCVD is so pompous the only costar worthy of his time is himself! JCVD plays twins in the action film, but the real scene stealer is the huge knot on JCVD’s forehead. He must’ve hurt himself pretty bad at some point and once you see it, you can’t look away. The knot feeds off of your attention! It grows in strength as you watch it! The knot knows all, sees all! Oh and there’s some action stuff going on too.
Top left corner. Behold… the knot.
Double Impact is about twin brothers who are separated as infants after their parents are murdered. They reunite 25 years later to get revenge on their parents’ killers. If you can look past the multiple ridiculous looking Van Dammes and the lump on his forehead, the film also features ultra-badass Bolo Yeung as one of the villains. He probably wanted revenge from his last match up with JCVD in Bloodsport, which he definitely does by scoring a powerful revenge nut shot against him.
Double Impact is a very bad film. I forgot how terrible JCVD was at portraying anyone other than his one usual straight laced, hero character that he always plays, but when he switches to his “brother” who is an edgier, more of a bad boy character (who somehow mysteriously has the same accent despite being raised in a separate part of the Earth), he sucks!
Even though JCVD’s is a poor actor, he certainly can kick some ass, and that’s why I like watching his films. In Double Impact he fights a ton of baddies and sneaks in a fight with himself. So if you want to laugh at bad acting and watch JCVD play with himself, give Double Impact a look!
Time Until Action: ~ 5 minutes.
Baddies: Hong Kong crime lord Raymond Zhang (Philip Chan) and his minions.
Best Line: “Maybe I’m drunk today, tomorrow I’ll be sober, BUT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE A F****T!
Best Kill: One of the baddies had spurs on his boots. He kicked a random dude in a bar and slit his throat wide open with the spur.
Action Rating: 4 All-Seeing Van Damme Forehead Knots, out of 5!
I had forgotten about this film. Loads of action, sucky acting!
This film is easily forgettable but fun for the time its on. However, do we really need two JCVD’s? Good review.
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One of my favorite JCVD movies. Awful acting, sure, but better fight scenes than his usual fair, and I always like Geoffrey Lewis (though come to think of it, he’s also responsible for siccing daughter Juliette and her “singing career” on the world, so maybe I should reconsider that).
That forehead lump gets more and more prominent with each film — someone needs to do a YouTube montage so we could watch it grow in time-lapse. One day he’ll be mostly knot with a little shrunken face attached to its ass…
My favorite Jean Claude Van Damme moment is still when he started trouble with Chuck Zito in a strip club and got knocked out with one punch. Actually, I hate to say that I really did like Bloodsport, even though the secret tournament that everyone knows about cliche was tired then.
I actually bought that poster. I was a big Van Damme fan back in the day. Not a huge fan of his direct-to-dvd stuff but I am looking forward to him in The Expendables 2!
Most of Van Damme’s stuff is by the numbers, but I thought REPLICANT was actually pretty good. Again playing twins (well, actually a serial killer and his clone) but to a little better effect this time, and Michael Rooker is always entertaining. Kooky premise, but one of his better flicks.
This just came out on Blu ray and I thought about getting it, but I decided to go with Death Warrant instead, as it’s among my favorite Van Damme films. Just behind Bloodsport and Cyborg (which I need to pick up on blu ray also, but it was more expensive and I have a budget).