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Directed by: Tsui Hark Starring: Jean Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke Jean Claude Van Damme is special forces commando Jack Quinn, who after stealing what I assume must be the world’s most awesomest truck retires to a seaside villa to knock up his wife. However, the government asks him to complete ONE LAST MISSION: the assassination of Stravos, a notorious crime lord played by Mickey Rourke. Of course the hit goes horribly wrong and the team end up accidentally killing Stravos’ own son before buying the farm themselves. After a tussle with Stravos in a nearby maternity ward, Quinn is also reported killed leaving his wife pregnant but with no father. However, it turns out Quinn is really being held captive on a top secret island a la The Prisoner that’s also a brain trust for the world’s top anti-crime experts also thought deceased. Of course, there’s no going back home. From this we are lead on a crazy rollercoaster ride where Quinn escapes, teams up with an arms dealer played by Dennis Rodman and finally confronts Stravos, who wants Quinn’s baby for his own, in an... interesting finale set amongst the Roman Colosseum involving land mines, tigers and a corridor of Coke machines. Double Team, also known as The Colony, is the unfortunate Hollywood debut by Asian director Tsui Hark, once tagged as “the Spielberg of Hong Kong”. Here, like his predecessors John Woo and Ringo Lam, Hark finds himself paired with the now coked-up Van Damme in presenting this stylish but hilariously awful action movie. The movie feels like a mish-mash of bad ideas, like the filmmakers got together in a room and decided to think up what would be cool to see in a Van Damme movie. Of course this results in a fight with a guy that uses knives between his toes, a basketball-shaped skydiving apparatus and the awkward confrontation that plays out above. The two plots also don't quite gel together, and did I mention Van Damme seemed coked-up during the film? Because, if you believe the tabloids, he probably was. Although Rodman does appear to be having a hell of a time in the role, Double Team is ultimately a very lacklustre flick with a couple of interesting/hilariously not-so-well-thought-out elements thrown in. 1.5/5 PROS: I have to admit, the finale is pretty original. CONS: But the rest of the movie is pretty bad. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119013/ mrkillboy fucked around with this message at 06:46 on May 9, 2004 |
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You know, this certainly isn't as bad as others might have you think. Sure, Van Damme's got a lot of bad movies under his belt. And yeah, Dennis Rodman is a bad idea too, but Hark Tsui still has got that flair for wild rear end action and crazy hong kong storytelling that never makes much sense. If anything, this film is worth it for a few of the amazing action sequences.
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May 9, 2004 11:40
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3.0 is all this movie can get. Good action bad acting of course. Rodman makes it funny  Its worth watching.
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Jun 7, 2004 23:44
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Goofy movie with good action and a Prisoner ripoff for the first half hour or so. Mostly it was amusing with bad lines. There were cybermonks and basketball parachutes in the movie, so I'd watch it again someday. "Offahnse geets de glowreeee." "Baht dayfanse wins da gaayme." 2.5
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