Being a Van Damme is a very thankless, sometimes truly maddening, task indeed. Imagine, as a fan, standing by an actor for over a decade until he starred in something decent again. Hard to imagine, isn't it? But that's the honest truth. Timecop from 1994 was the last truly enjoyable film from 'the Muscles from Brussles', enough to cause all the most die-hard fans of his to give up hope. But a decade later, Jean-Claude, like a fabled Phoenix, rises from the ashes of truly dreadful bouts with his double, being a dire street-fighter, and worse of all Dennis Rodman, to finally star in this admittedly heavily clichéd unoriginal film as a cop who has his wife brutally killed after they take in the runaway kid of a Chinese drug-lord. The plot is decidedly not the true selling point of the film. The highlights are the highly stylized (in one scene just plain brutal) violence and Jean-Claude's acting skills coming to a new maturation (yes he CAN act). In addition Simon Yam is ALWAYS good and here is no different as his bad guy is great.
My Grade: B
Eye Candy: Joon Chong & Lisa King both get topless, but i'd be lying if i didn't say Chong didn't have the better rack.
My Grade: B
Eye Candy: Joon Chong & Lisa King both get topless, but i'd be lying if i didn't say Chong didn't have the better rack.