Finfrosk86 Listen, this is not a spoiler, it is more like a warning. Just read along.This is a boring ass movie. I was expecting older Van Damme to kick some serious ass here! He barely does at all.This is an attempt at a drama. No, no, no! If I want to see drama, I'll watch something with actors not only known from action.Dear directors: stop trying to prove that anyone can do drama, they can't. Once in a blue moon actors that have been type cast for a long while can actually do something different really well, but it is not often the case.So yeah, this is a waste of your time. It is not entertaining, not gripping, not exciting and has little action. Stay clear.

pete At first, I'm a Van Damme Fan. I like him since Bloodsport and shame or not but I hate him since UniSol2. I think everyone knows why... Since 1999 something broke his ego. Maybe, it was his mental problem and the thing with drugs or the world changed but something moved in different way. Sadly all these came back in movies too. Everyone who watched JCVD knows this. He tried and tried to became an actor against martial arts star, but I think he is much more a fighter like an actor. And that was what I always loved in Van Damme. I think this move isn't good. It want to be a drama-action flick but it works not. There are so many weak moments. Please, I think who loves action movies knows what's the different between good and bad. Cheap effects, laughable scenes with overplayed characters kills everything. JC is OK, the problem is the story the cast and directing. Everything is B... Double Impact was B-movie too, but million miles away from this. In 1990 there was mood and an elegant style for these kind of movies. I think after the year 2000, this kind of cinema is only for renting. Somewhere in the past Van Damme was a cinema star, not only a product for DVD... I hope he shows us more JCVD in the future!

don-du-bois The atmosphere was there, the acting was good enough (although I think the badtub scene was pretty poor there), the story was there and the scenes where there yet someone managed to make this film pretty bad still. The problem is in the action scenes which where edited very poorly imho, some nice shots but no "thrill" factor whatsoever. Also the pursuit scenes where too loaded with bs. Lastly some scenes in the movie just didn't make any sense, for example the restaurant scene, where the Chinese dudes including the main guy come for the girl, they whipe everyone out and leave without ever really bothering looking for the girl...Again, this could have been a better movie but too many mistakes where made.

ma-cortes The movie begins when a Chinese little girl witnesses the killing her mother by her gangster father named Sun Quan(Simon Yam) and she flees to Los Angels aboard a ship with other abducted immigrants. An ex-gangster named Ben(Jean Claude Van Damme) is ready to retire himself; his wife(Lisa King)is a social worker, taking the refugee little girl to their house. Then, she 's cruelly killed and his son along with the Chinese girl are kidnapped. Our revenger hero wages war against the criminals .The sad Van Damme must rescue the kids and revenge his spouse, meanwhile he's attacked and pursued from all sides by Chinese triads, being only helped by a French gangster's trio.This film direct to video-rentals, displays action-packed, extreme violence, pursuit cars, thrills and is quite entertaining. It's thrilling and tense , at time suspenseful movie and the firepower, explosion, struggles, motorbikes races are very well done. Suffering Van Damme plays finely an affected gangster, acting similarly to 'Hard cops'. Van Damme confronting nasties, using his martial-arts skills, furthermore some chase cars are pretty exciting. Remaining cast though unknown make nice acting, besides appears uncredited Burt Kwouk ,the famous Chinese fighter against Inspector Clouseau-Peter Sellers. This interesting film results to be a standard actioner, but packs atmospheric action set pieces and is fast movement . The motion picture is well produced, though with middling budget, and directed by Philippe Martinez. He's a prestigious producer, such as 'Harsh times, Modigliani, The piano player, Van Wilder 2'. This is the second and best film as director , along with 'Citizen verdict'. The picture is extremely energetic and be liked for true devotees of main actor. It's a must see for Van Damme fans.