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Year
1991
Runtime
110 min.
Director
Sheldon Lettich
Genres
Action, Crime
Rating *
5.6
Votes *
28,416
Checks
2,538
Favs
28
Dislikes
98
Favs/checks
1.1% (1:91)
Favs/dislikes
1:4
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  1. Jonas2k's avatar

    Jonas2k

    Van Damme plays twins, what more can you ask for? It's almost too awesome! 9 years 10 months ago
  2. ChrisReynolds's avatar

    ChrisReynolds

    I wish more had been made of the twins concept. It could have been used to confuse/trick the villains or the twins could have teamed up on a single enemy, but this never happens. 10 years 2 months ago
  3. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    I've seen too many Hong Kong action movies to count, so Double Impact only comes off as an ordinary example, but there's still some fun to be had by having Van Damme play his own twin brother. The two of them are well integrated into the shots, and yeah, the yuppie brother is rather cheesy, but the brother raised on the streets of Hong Kong is delightfully over the top. His jealousy sequence alone ups the score on this one by half a star. One does wonder how two babies raised a continent apart developed the same accent... It's also fun to see JCVD fight Bolo Yeung again, while Cory Everson makes for another memorable villain. The physical threats are all henchpersons, but the bad guys in suits still give the twins a run for their money in the revenge-filled climax. As for the action, there's an idea of gun fu, but no one involved can see (or in Philip Chan Yan-Kin's case, be in) Hard-Boiled for a couple years yet, so the gun play is loud and tedious to me. Van Damme's strength has always been hand-to-hand anyway. And on that score, there are some good sequences. Final freeze frame in the Shaw Brothers manner! (Man, they really missed a trick not giving the boys the last name Shaw, oh well.) 2 years 12 months ago
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