6/10
Men action, no Oscar winner! Less martial arts, more shooting. Entertaining, good charismatic villain in Lance Henriksen with sidekick Arnold Vosloo (l8r the Mummy). Amazingly beautiful Yancy Butler.
Van Damme returned in John Woo's Hard Target, in which he plays an ex-Ranger, Cajun drifter up against a greed-driven manhunting ring. Woo's style enhances everything with the essence of cool, and you really have to accept that everything is made out of explosives. Stunts, fights, music... it's all great. Wilmford Brimley playing Chance Boudreaux's moonshine-swilling uncle is probably the best thing about the movie though. Chance should have appeared in other films, but his other "Cajun" movies used a different persona. Too bad, because Uncle Douvee could have made a comeback.
It starts out almost unbearably lethargic and takes the longest possible route to get to the action, but when it gets there, it kicks ass. The whole final shootout is one giant visual throwback to Hard Boiled, which is only ever a good thing.
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xianjiro
Come for John WooStay for:
1) Wilford Brimley, action hero
2) snake in need of serious anger management
3) JCvD's mullet, saturated with styling product
neocowboy
All the unnecessary slow motion and pigeon wrangling is laughable in the worst possible way.However... JCVD
Emiam
6/10Men action, no Oscar winner! Less martial arts, more shooting. Entertaining, good charismatic villain in Lance Henriksen with sidekick Arnold Vosloo (l8r the Mummy). Amazingly beautiful Yancy Butler.
Siskoid
Van Damme returned in John Woo's Hard Target, in which he plays an ex-Ranger, Cajun drifter up against a greed-driven manhunting ring. Woo's style enhances everything with the essence of cool, and you really have to accept that everything is made out of explosives. Stunts, fights, music... it's all great. Wilmford Brimley playing Chance Boudreaux's moonshine-swilling uncle is probably the best thing about the movie though. Chance should have appeared in other films, but his other "Cajun" movies used a different persona. Too bad, because Uncle Douvee could have made a comeback.Zaothus
It starts out almost unbearably lethargic and takes the longest possible route to get to the action, but when it gets there, it kicks ass. The whole final shootout is one giant visual throwback to Hard Boiled, which is only ever a good thing.VETTE1
The most close range gunfire I've ever seen without someone getting their ass shot.MaxBG
Fun and, arguably, comparable to Hard-Boiled. Yes, I went there.caley
A-mazing. So good.mook
John Woo directs Van Damme in a ludicrous action film with excessive slow-mo, amusing moments and a great finale. 6/10.Follow me on Twitter @LastFilmSeen