1996 - Action/Adventure - Ringo Lam - English - 18 years and over - Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Zach Grenier, Paul Ben-Victor, Stephane Audran more
After making several violent Hong Kong action films in the style that's come to be known as heroic bloodshed, Ringo Lam came to Hollywood to make his first American film with... more
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Maximum Risk [1997]
When a kickboxing police inspector is murdered, his kickboxing twin brother infiltrates
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the Russian mob in order to see justice meted out--as painfully as possible. A slimmed-down Jean-Claude Van Damme is surprisingly effective as the lead(s), but the ...
the Russian mob in order to see justice meted out--as painfully as possible. A slimmed-down Jean-Claude Van Damme is surprisingly effective as the lead(s), but the real star here is gritty Hong Kong director Ringo Lam (probably best known forCity on Fire, the film that inspired Quentin Tarantino'sReservoir Dogs), who makes a lethal American debut with this hard-edged, convoluted film, which uses the identical-sibling gimmick to considerably darker effect than the goofballDouble Impact. Some incredible stunt work and a terrifically ruthless final reel make this underrated action film a winner, although fans ofSpeciesmay be somewhat disappointed that costar Natasha Henstridge never fully displays the assets that made her famous.--Andrew Wright
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In this one, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a French cop (to explain the accent) who discovers he has a twin brother heavily involved with the Russian mob. This, the second film in what is to become the Van Damme twin trilogy, is the second worst Van Damme film after Cyborg. Not one thing in this movie makes sense at all. After his brother's death, Alain (Van Damme) travels to New York where everyone mistakes him for his brother Mikhail, including his ... ...agents. The convoluted plot wouldn't be a problem if there were some cool action scenes to drive the film and fool the audience into thinking its fun. Sadly, even Hong Kong action maestro Ringo Lam (City On Fire and Jackie Chan's Twin Dragons) couldn't save this movie even if he wanted to. Hopefully, he'll follow his protégé John Woo and start hiring good actors. ...
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Advantages: It has Van Damme - twice Disadvantages: It has very little else
Maximum Risk takes a somewhat overused idea and tries to put a new slant on it – whether it succeeds or not is at the discretion of the viewer. Van Damme plays twin brothers, one of whom is prematurely terminated towards the beginning of the film, in France where it happens his twin brother (who, surprise surprise he has been separated from since birth) works as a policeman. A friend of the non-terminated Van Damme is at the scene of the death and ...
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Not a bad film. Being a van damme fan i have quite a few of his films. I found this one to be a bit cheasy. I would stick to the more classic ones. Time Cop for exsample was a really good film. If you have seen all the rest then get this, but i would not pay a lot for it.
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...movies, but decided to watch maximum Risk because Natasha Hentsridge is in it. But, I did actually enjoy the movie. I was expecting a load of Kung-Fu, Kickboxing scenes, but luckily there wasn’t too many. Van Damme is a French cop who discovers he has a twin brother when he finds his brother dead in Nice. He travels to New York to investigate and finds that his brother is mixed up with the Russian secret service and has compiled a very damaging list ... ...Van Damme teams up with Hentsridge as everyone seems to be out to kill them in order to get their hands on the list.
There is a lot of decent action in the film and some pretty good scenes. The start is excellent with a chase leading to the death of the twin brother.
I would recommend this film for people that like action movies and urge people too see it even if they don’t like Van Damme (like me) as this is one very good film. ...
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Review: "...It's a visceral delight....[A] full-tilt genre boogie..." (Variety, 16/09/1996)
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After making several violent Hong Kong action films in the style that's come to be known as heroic bloodshed, Ringo Lam came to Hollywood to make his first American film with Belgian martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. MAXIMUM RISK, like Van Damme's previous DOUBLE IMPACT, is the story of twin brothers. Unlike the earlier film--in which he played brothers with contrasting characters--here he's a French policeman, Alain Moreau, who takes on the identity of his dead brother, Mikhail. They were separated at birth when their mother, Chantal, played by veteran French film actress Stephane Audran, gave one up for adoption to a Russian diplomat. He grew up to become a member of the new Russian Mafia operating out of the Little Odessa section of New York City. When Mikhail is murdered in France after a wild chase through the streets, Alain goes to New York, where he's assumed to be Mikhail by everyone from the local Russian crime boss to his brother's beautiful girlfriend, Alex (Natasha Henstridge) Working with a seemingly unlimited budget for car crashes, Lam stages the action scenes with a kinetic flair and smartly knits them together with the help of sharp editing by Bill Pankow.
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