Category Archives: The JCVan-Dammathon

At last, the dubious title of Winner of the JCVD van-marrathonne is here! If you ever were wondering what is the best of Van Damme’s garbage, think of Double Impact, although I must admit Maximum Risk ran a very close … Continue reading →

This is one of the better reviewed JCVD movies going around, all I can say to that is that most film critics have overly mainstream tastes. Even though Timecop is a sci-fi action movie, it is nothing more than an … Continue reading →

Guy gets dissed. Guy can’t possibly win. Guy trains hard. Guy overcomes odds and wins. All to a horrible soundtrack of supposedly motivational music probably with titles like “Fight to survive”, “Take it to the limit” and “No pain, no … Continue reading →

JCVD has retired from the CIA to be with his pregnant wife, which I guess is noble. Only he goes back to the CIA on a one off mission to catch his nemesis Stavros, played by Mickey Rourke in full … Continue reading →

I remember this coming out as it was John Woo’s US filmmaking debut, and there were high hopes. He made The Killer and Hard Boiled with the not-very-athletic Chow Yun Fat, imagine what he might do with JCVD! One point … Continue reading →

This one at least looked interesting on the cover, and it was written by the guy who rebooted Batman and wrote Blade 2, so I had moderately high hopes. JCVD is a cop hunting a serial killer known as the … Continue reading →

Hey-Ho. No-one was more surprised than me when it came time to watch Maximum Risk. This film is actually pretty good as far as mindless action pics go, and especially when compared with most other JCVD films that I have … Continue reading →

There is a full contact fighting tournament in Hong Kong. It is supposedly hush-hush but everyone seems to know about it. JCVD skips the army to be there. There are way too many pointless flashbacks, although it was funny to … Continue reading →