Double Impact

Double Impact is a perfectly fine film, and is easily one of the best to come out of Van Damme’s back catalogue. If you want a film to have whilst drinking some ‘manly’ beers with ‘manly’ friends, then you could do much worse than . Read full review

What makes Double Impact, for all its dull-witted theatrics, an energizing experience is the picture’s astonishing level of ballistic mayhem. Read full review

The movie has slick production values and a few clever lines, and is an invaluable illustration of the Principle of Evil Marksmanship. This principle, you will recall from my Glossary of Movie Terms, teaches us that in the movies the bad guys can never hit anything with a gun, and the good guys can hardly miss. Read full review

Director Sheldon Lettich, who also worked on the story and screenplay, gives Van Damme plenty of space for his performance, but his direction, like his star, only really comes alive during the action scenes, particularly the climax, set around the freight containers and towering cranes of the Hong Kong waterfront.

Though the fight sequences deliver the necessary kicks, Double Impact's script is a study in missed opportunities. [09 Aug 1991, p.G5]

Van Damme's doubling up merely tends to make this movie, co-written and co-produced by the self-styled Muscles From Brussels, twice as avoidable as it would otherwise be. Read full review

As it turns out, two Jean-Claude Van Dammes are pretty much the same as one. Fans who like their action unadulterated by story, character or acting know where to find it. Read full review

if you're in the mood to watch some high-class head-kicking, Double Impact is a perfectly adequate piece of work. Read full review