Jcvd (2008) Direction: Mabrouk El Mechri Screenplay: Mabrouk El Mechri and Frédéric Benudis; from an idea by Frédéric Taddeï and Vincent Ravalec Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Liliane Becker Jean-Claude Van Damme in Jcvd Mabrouk El Mechri’s Jcvd is one of the best films Jean-Claude Van Damme has starred in for some years, equal to his more recent efforts in Wake of Death and Replicant. Van Damme really puts on his acting cap in all three films, though out of the three, Replicant is still the best, followed by Jcvd and then Wake of Death. Jcvd, however, is the most inventive of the trio; it is also the first film where Van Damme gets real with his audience. Jcvd [...]...
- 11/12/2009
- by Reginald Williams
- Alt Film Guide
Seen on: November 23, 2008
The players: Director: Mabrouk El Mechri, Writers: Christophe Turpin, Frédéric Bénudis, Mabrouk El Mechri, Cast: Jean-Claude van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Francois Wolff
Facts of interest: None.
The plot: When Van Damme finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation, he shows the world a side of him no one has ever seen before.
Our thoughts: My personal experience with Jean-Claude Van Damme is fairly specific. I may have seen “Bloodsport” more than a dozen times when I was teenager. This is not because I particularly enjoyed the film (although I must admit that image of Van Damme doing the splits in his underwear across the kitchen counter tops has never quite left my head); no, the reason I’ve seen the Van Damme classic so many times has a lot more to do with laziness than anything else.
The players: Director: Mabrouk El Mechri, Writers: Christophe Turpin, Frédéric Bénudis, Mabrouk El Mechri, Cast: Jean-Claude van Damme, Francois Damiens, Zinedine Soualem, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Francois Wolff
Facts of interest: None.
The plot: When Van Damme finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation, he shows the world a side of him no one has ever seen before.
Our thoughts: My personal experience with Jean-Claude Van Damme is fairly specific. I may have seen “Bloodsport” more than a dozen times when I was teenager. This is not because I particularly enjoyed the film (although I must admit that image of Van Damme doing the splits in his underwear across the kitchen counter tops has never quite left my head); no, the reason I’ve seen the Van Damme classic so many times has a lot more to do with laziness than anything else.
- 11/25/2008
- by Joseph Bélanger
- screeninglog.com
Rating: 81 Release Date: Nov. 7 (limited)
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Writers: Frédéric Bénudis, Mabrouk El Mechri, Christophe Turpin
Cinematographer: Pierre-Yves Bastard
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Studio/Run Time: Peach Arch, 96 mins.
When was the last time you watched a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie? Hard Target (1993) may have been the flick that brought Hong Kong genius John Woo to Hollywood, but the Muscles from Brussels has not been in the ascendant in a long, long while. Van Damme, who just turned 48, belongs to a different generation of action hero—the hyper-masculine, death-dealing martial arts master whose lady-killing ways don’t rely too much on nuance. These days, all our superheroes, double agents and fearless men who race on dangerous missions to save the free world, yada yada yada, have gone emo. Matt Damon? C’mon! (Actually, the Bourne Trilogy is pretty great, but it’s a different order of Things Blowing Up Real Good.
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Writers: Frédéric Bénudis, Mabrouk El Mechri, Christophe Turpin
Cinematographer: Pierre-Yves Bastard
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Studio/Run Time: Peach Arch, 96 mins.
When was the last time you watched a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie? Hard Target (1993) may have been the flick that brought Hong Kong genius John Woo to Hollywood, but the Muscles from Brussels has not been in the ascendant in a long, long while. Van Damme, who just turned 48, belongs to a different generation of action hero—the hyper-masculine, death-dealing martial arts master whose lady-killing ways don’t rely too much on nuance. These days, all our superheroes, double agents and fearless men who race on dangerous missions to save the free world, yada yada yada, have gone emo. Matt Damon? C’mon! (Actually, the Bourne Trilogy is pretty great, but it’s a different order of Things Blowing Up Real Good.
- 11/13/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
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