Double Team

Starring: Dennis Rodman, JeanClaude Van Damme Director: Hark Tsui Original UK Premiere: 1997 Dvd Release: 8th March, 2004 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Danish, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish

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Double Team is a 1997 action movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme & Dennis Rodman. Mickey Rourke co-stars, as the terrorist Stavros. Van Damme is a counter-terrorist agent assigned to bring Stavros to justice. Retired government agent Jack Paul Quinn, played by Jean Claude Van Damme, is spending his days by the pool with his pregnant wife Katherine in southern France. A government representative approaches Quinn, asking for his assistance in a current case. The case involves an old enemy of Quinns, the one that got away. International terrorist Stavros who was Quinns last assignment has resurfaced & the government is requesting Quinns assistance as he has a greater knowledge of the terrorist. The lure of having a second chance at what he never finished, Quinn accepts the proposal with some reluctance to his wifes dismay. Quinn however assures her that there is little risk involved. Quinn is sent to Antwerp in Belgium where he meets with a rather quirky modern arms dealer, Yaz, played by Dennis Rodman. Posters Of Double Team

Look ma, no script! As expected from a movie by Hong Kong action director Hark Tsui, there are many explosive, fast-paced sequences in this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle. Some are thrilling, others inconsequential. There is also another mumbling, overdone performance by Mickey Rourke, who looks as if he performed his own plastic surgery. Except for an unintentionally humorous ending, the only surprise is Dennis Rodman as Van Dammes partner in exploitation. Rodman has plenty of charisma, but needs someone to weed out those inferior scripts. He plays an eccentric arms dealer coerced by an avenging Van Damme into tracking down the evil & sadistically weird character played by a well-muscled Rourke. It says little for the production that the best sequence of the movie occurs a quarter of the way into the action. It concerns an escape by Van Damme from an island think tank for forcibly retired covert agents. After that, everyone should have gone home.

Dennis Rodman was a professional basketball player mostly known for his controversial antics on & off the court & as a top defender & rebounder. When he entered the NBA in 1986, he was listed as 6 8, but by the time he joined the Chicago Bulls in 1995, his listed height had dropped to 6 6, which he acknowledges as his actual height. Rodman played one of the most physical positions in basketball at power forward & despite giving up as much as a half foot in some matchups, was considered perhaps the top power defender of his generation & one of the top five defenders of his generation at all positions along with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Gary Payton & Dikembe Mutombo. Rodman was far from a basketball prospect as a high-schooler in Dallas ; he only became a prospect when he grew 11 inches in one year late in his teenage years. After a stint in junior college, he played for Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a Division II school. However, the Detroit Pistons took sufficient notice of him to draft him in the second round in 1986. Posters Of Double Team

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Tsui Hark is a New Wave film director in Hong Kong who is also a highly influential producer, often likened to Steven Spielberg for a similar galvanizing effect on his countrys cinematic scene. Born in Vietnam, he took his secondary education in Hong Kong, then studied at a Texas university. He also edited a Chinatown newspaper in New York City, developed a community theatre group & was active in a Chinatown cable TV program. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977 & immediately found work in TV. He made his first feature, The Butterfly Murders/Die Bian, in 1979. Warriors from the Magic Mountain. the murder mystery in The Butterfly Murders ; the hardboiled gangster film in A Better Tomorrow ; the Kung Fu film in Zu Warriors & Swordsman ; & the period romance in The Lovers. most of his films turn out to be major box-office hits in Hong Kong & around Asia. Tsuis films are well-known for their adventurousness, their broad commercial appeal & hectic camerawork & pace. Posters Of Double Team

Editors Choice: Knock Off, Double Team, Once Upon A Time In China Ii, Once Upon A Time In China Iii, The Blade, New Dragon Gate Inn, A Better Tomorrow 3, Dragon Inn, View DVDology

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