Monday, March 19, 2007

Now Introducing Jean-Claude Van Damme

The challenge - review every single one of Van Damme's movies and comment on the variations in fight choreography from film to film. Since I am not one to back down from a challenge when this one was issued I had no choice, but to accept.

In the way of an introduction Van Damme, or the Muscles from Brussells has he his known to those of us who watched a lot of E Entertainment Television in the 90's, has been staring in movies for nearly a decade. His first big break was in 1988 when he started in the martial arts tournament movie Blood Sport and he has managed to star in a movie almost every year to date with his most recent film Until Death which was released this year.

It is the goal of this blogger to evaluate Van-Damme's fighting prowess from movie to movie so while each review will essentially be a discourse of the film being reviewed; following the first review the commentaries will also include a section on how the choreography has changed from film to film. With the idea being that this will be your single most informative resource for evaluating the career of one of Hollywood's most famous martial arts action movie stars.

This should be some interesting reading, I am excited to rewatch some classics as well as get a chance to check some of his newer work. Let's see where this goes.

Movies in chronological order -
  1. Bloodsport
  2. Cyborg
  3. Kickboxer
  4. Lionheart
  5. Death Warrant
  6. Double Impact
  7. Universal Soldier
  8. Nowhere to Run
  9. Hard Target
  10. Time Cop
  11. Street Fighter
  12. Sudden Death
  13. The Quest
  14. Maximum Risk
  15. Double Team
  16. Knock Off
  17. Universal Soldier: The Return
  18. Inferno
  19. Replicant
  20. The Order
  21. Derailed
  22. In Hell
  23. Narco
  24. Wake of Death
  25. Second in Command
  26. The Hard Cops
  27. Until Death

1 comment:

Barone said...

Don't lie to the public. In your mind you are doing this at gunpoint.