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James Lindorf of Red Carpet Crash praised the direction and the performance of lead actor Jean-Claude Van Damme. [ 3 ] John Delia of Aced Magazine gave the film 4 out of 5 stars calling the film “Shocking, violent and emotional…” stating of director Lior Geller's work, “Geller… sets up the audience for a front row seat on a Godfather ...
After Predator was a success, Van Damme said that he appreciated the movie and that he had no regrets about missing that role. Van Damme's breakout film was Bloodsport, which opened on 26 February 1988, based on the alleged true story of Frank Dux. [40] It was shot on a $1.5-million budget for Cannon.
Won Best Animated Feature Film at the 7th Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál [1] 2005: Rokonok: István Szabó: Sándor Csányi, Ildikó Tóth, Károly Eperjes: Drama: Entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival: Dallas Pashamende: Robert-Adrian Pejo: Zsolt Bogdán, Dorka Gryllus: Fekete kefe: Roland Vranik: Gergely Bánki ...
Cyborg [a] is a 1989 American martial-arts cyberpunk film directed by Albert Pyun. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Gibson Rickenbacker, a mercenary who battles a group of murderous marauders led by Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn) along the East coast of the United States in a post-apocalyptic future.
Inferno (alternatively known as Desert Heat) [1] is a 1999 American action film directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Danny Trejo, Pat Morita, Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, and David "Shark" Fralick. This was the last film directed by Avildsen before his death in 2017.
Bloodsport was an inspiration for the video game Mortal Kombat, [35] and Johnny Cage, one of the characters, is a parody of Jean-Claude Van Damme. [36] Van-Damme himself later voiced a Johnny Cage character based on his likeness in Mortal Kombat 1. [37] In 2024, Capelight Pictures released The Last Kumite, a crowd-funded film "inspired by the ...
Legionnaire is a 1998 American drama war film directed by Peter MacDonald and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a 1920s boxer who wins a fight after he was hired by gangsters to lose it and then flees to join the French Foreign Legion. The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Daniel Caltagirone, Nicholas Farrell, and Steven Berkoff.
The film was screened at the Cannes Film Market on May 18, 1990, under the title A.W.O.L. [9] On August 2, 1990, it was reported that the film had been picked up by Universal Studios in the U.S. [9] It was Van Damme's first film to be released by a major studio in the territory.