Maximum Risk

You match Van-Damme with Natasha Henstridge in the middle of FBI/Russian Mob conspiracy story topped off with a dead twin and you have Maximum Risk. I mean the thing that you have to love most about Van-Damme is that the guy has never read a script he didn’t like. He is all about the wackier the better. Not that Maximum Risk is that whacky, I mean what is whacky about twins being separated at birth, one becomes a French cop, the other a major player in the Russian Mob. The Mobster ends up getting a hold of enough information to bury the mob and indict several dirty FBI agents. While the Russian Van-Damme tries to connect with his French twin, he is killed. The French twin Van-Damme vows to uncover the secrets to his brother’s death and expose the conspiracy. See I told ya, not that whacky.

So action, let’s get right to it. The movie opens with a pretty cool chase scene that starts off on foot, with Van-Damme leaping across buildings and crashing through windows and all that good stuff and than moves to motor transport, Van-Damme drive as motor-scooter type thing and is pursuers are in a car. The scene climaxes in a very harry death scene in which Van-Damme flies through the air and then crashes through the windshield of another car. Don’t worry we still have one more Van-Damme still in play.

The movies featured a handful of fights, which mostly featured Van-Damme fighting this one particular Russian named Red Face, played by some guys named Stefanos Miltsakakis. Van-Damme and Red Face, love that name, have three or four different fights scenes throughout the movie, that feature a mixed martial arts style, of stylized karate and street fighting. The both use a lot of throws and grappling moves. Van-Damme also incorporates more punching into his scenes. Although it would not be a Van-Damme movie without the jumping, spinning, roundhouse, split kick. So overall good stuff out of this flick. Van-Damme is definitely growing as a fighter on screen.