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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 4, 1997 |
Starring:
Bruno Bilotta, Dennis Rodman, Jay Benedict, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joëlle Devaux-Vullion, Mario Opinato, Mickey Rourke, Natacha Lindinger, Paul Freeman, Valeria Cavalli
Summary:
An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.
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Neophytes may be baffled by the film's weirdly sentimental streak -- the vendetta that drives antiterrorist Van Damme and his nemesis (Rourke) is all about babies -- but by the time Rourke has mined the Colosseum (yes, the Colosseum) and sicced a Bengal tiger on Van Damme, the wise viewer is just sitting back and enjoying the show.
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Hark's visual style occasionally strays from standard operating procedure with an arty camera effect or an odd angle. Those flashes of inspiration only serve to make the cliches - such as a coliseum showdown complete with land mines, snipers and a tiger - clunk a little louder. In the big game of entertainment, Double Team barely gets off the bench. [5 Apr 1997, p.2B]
Badly in need of more humor and humanity, like that found in his best Hong Kong features, Tsui Hark's long-awaited big-budget debut "Double Team" is doubly problematic. Beyond a few sequences with some of the Hark magic and the formidable presence of NBA superstar Dennis Rodman, the Columbia Pictures release is not exactly an airball, but it bounces around the rim and finally fails to go in. [2 Apr 1997]
Instead of story or suspense, Double Team offers a busy sampling of eye candy. [4 Apr 1997, p.C6]
Oddly, for such a terrible movie, it looks fabulous. [4 Apr 1997]
Apr 7, 2023
Awfull movie but its the classic so bad its godd movie just watch and have some fun!
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