Maximum Risk (DVD)

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. ...

Mohammed 24.07.2000 · Read full review
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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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Another of the countless Van Damme films to be unleashed upon the public. Naturally its an action thriller starring Van Damme as a 'kickboxing police inspector', interesting premise so far, trying to solve the murder of his twin brother whom he was seperated from at a very young age. Funny how Van Damme plays his own twin in another film but nonethless a fairly typical Van Damme plot, namely Van Damme taking revenge for something, usually a death ...
...course there's eyecandy also, where would a Van Damme film be without the love interest? Natasha Henstridge is provided as blonde totty for the muscled star. Strangely she was his brother's girlfriend whilst he was living, not at all creepy that she ends up dating her dead boyfriend's brother? Odder still the fact that Van Damme's character impersonates his twin and stops minutes away from having sex with his twin's girlfriend, she mistaking him ...

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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. ...

SOMEBODYBUTWHO 22.08.2008
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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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