One Jean-Claude Van Damme is enough, but two now your pushing it.
Jean Claude Van Damme plays Alex and Chad, twins separated upon the death of their parents who join to avenge their parent's death, compare pecks, and kick butt twice as hard.
Yes it is another one of the Van Damme action films. All of his films one after another seem to be weaved with different sheets of cloth but still end up making the same suit no matter what.
The action is obviously there just like all of the Van Damme films have, but this one feels a bit different. It's less about the kung-fu fighting as it is about the highly produced slick production values. There are a lot more of explosions and guns firing than there usually is in a Van Damme movie and that made it a bit more exciting, and ambitious.
Other than the action the film is pretty bad. To start off the story is so predictable. There are just scenes in this film that I called a mile away before it even happened. The love interest in this film I really did feel was just forced and didn't feel any strong connection between her and the story other than she was there cause the film needed a chick.
The twins in this are not very distinguished. They both each have the same look, talk, and even the same moves. The only thing that probably does make them different is that one has slicked back hair and the other one doesn't.
Jean Claude Van Damme isn't what I would call a thespian, and I wasn't expecting any Oscar-nominating performance here but this is some bad acting. He plays a dual role but doesn't make them different at all. I couldn't understand half of the time of what he was saying and the acting felt like he was just reading off of cue cards.
One thing about this film that really does get me even more ticked off is that every film since Cobra (1987), has been trying the comedy-action thing, and it just doesn't click as much as Arnold films do, and this is one of those examples. Not only does this film do it but so do many others and the lines aren't funny there just cheesy, and get laughed at unintentionally.
Consensus: The action is there, but in the end it's just another Van Damme brainless action flick with two Van Damme's.
3/10=SomeOleBullShi****!!!!!
