Production Year: 1996 - Action/Adventure - Director: Ringo Lam - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Stephane Audran, Paul Ben-Victor, Zach Grenier, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Claude Van Damme 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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Production Year: 1996 - Action/Adventure - Director: Ringo Lam - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Stephane Audran, Paul Ben-Victor, Zach Grenier, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Advantages: It has Van Damme - twice Disadvantages: It has very little else
...MaximumRisk 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 is worried for his police colleague before discovering he is still alive. The plot, in all fairness, is interesting enough, and while it is no masterpiece it does offer some excitement and credibility. However non-appreciators of the Van Damme genre are advised to stay well away....
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...I have to admit that I am not a fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, but decided to watch maximumRisk 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 of FBI agents that are working with the Russians. 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.
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Actor(s): Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Stephane Audran, Paul Ben-Victor, Zach Grenier
Director(s): Ringo Lam
Genre: Action & Adventure
Classification: 18 years and over
Production Year: 1996
Video Category: Feature Film
Country Of Origin: United States of America
Plot: Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the south of France to the streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's girlfriend...
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DVD Region: Region B
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
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.
Advantages: It has Van Damme - twice Disadvantages: It has very little else
...MaximumRisk 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 is worried for his police colleague before discovering he is still alive. The plot, in all fairness, is interesting enough, and while it is no masterpiece it does offer some excitement and credibility. However non-appreciators of the Van Damme genre are advised to stay well away....
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Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
...I have to admit that I am not a fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, but decided to watch maximumRisk 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 of FBI agents that are working with the Russians. 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...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
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