Too much of everything

hyped garbage

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Okay.This is a Van Damme movie. Let's go over the recipe.1/2 Pint of Napoleonic dude overcompensating by not just wearing lift shoes, but by gettin' all Kung Phooey and such.58 Gallons of Violence and Kung Phooey Stuff.1 Ton of Hypocrisy.0 ounces Star Material (Names, A-listers, B-listers, C-listers or even D-listers.)45 unknowns.1 renowned skin flick chick, who doesn't get nude.1 unknown chick who does get nude and later goes on to skin flick fame. Preferred would be she has a huge bosom, entirely fake, and when her clothes are off, it's completely apparent. Make sure her hair is dyed, preferably from something really dark to blonde, so that her eyebrows are severely apparent.1 Cornucopia of guns and weapons with absolutely unlimited ammunition.1 Foreign setting, depicted with as much racism as possible.1 Teeny Weeny Tiny BudgetPreheat oven to "on." In a separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients together. Slowly stir in unknown chick, mixing in just enough nudity to achieve an "R" rating. Hype with all available tenacity. Put in oven and let this turkey get nice and botulism-ed. Serves all who can stomach.The only non-Hong Kong Phooey aspect of this film worth watching is Alonna Shaw, and just one second or so of Julie Strain. Keep your remote handy and watch Julie Strain stretch at the start. Pause here. Keep this image on your TV for at least a half hour. Then fast forward until you see Alonna Shaw topless. Pause, rewind, frame advance at your leisure. Take your time. An hour or so will do. These scenes are the only reason the movie rates a six.When finished, eject movie and replace with anything else out of Hollywood.

i mean Jackie Chan not Jesus Christ!Indeed, it's a comedy kick movie set in Orient… honestly i am not fond of the action movies from the expandable cast but this one is not that bad! For me, there was 3 great things: 1) entirely shot on location in Hong Kong and that's fantastic for the exotic feeling: the sea, the jungle, the cultures...2) another attempt to do twins with a single one: lately, i keep watching movies using that trick: BTTF, Géaldine, Laurel & Hardy, Noomi, ... Here the result is not that bad, especially coming from JCVD who didn't attend Strasberg courses!3) the hot Alonna Shaw who is the perfect look alike of my famous shrink who crossed my way a long time ago! If i'm honest and remember well, it's this likeness that put me on the trail for this movie but it's another twin story...

The Muscles from Brussels takes a co-producer and co-writer credit on this routinely plotted but agreeable action picture. Van Damme plays twin boys, who were orphaned in the 1960s by thugs representing some greedy white collar criminals. One of them, Chad, ended up in L. A. where he got to live a fairly soft life. Alex, on the other hand, remained in Hong Kong where he became a street smart smuggler. 25 years later, their "uncle" Frank (Geoffrey Lewis) locates Alex and reunites the boys so they can have a classic bit of revenge - and reclaim what's theirs in the bargain.All of the action is watchable if never truly inspired. There's a good deal of hard hitting violence (the naive Chad takes his lumps before the story is over), and plenty of effective squib action - not to mention a hearty helping of explosions. The exotic Hong Kong setting certainly helps a lot, as well. One sequence is particularly striking, and you can see bits of that in the trailer. And there's a fairly satisfying confrontation between Van Damme and martial arts icon Bolo Yeung, who plays Moon, a goon who ends up with a fake eye and a nasty scar due to Franks' intervention back in the 60s.There's a certain degree of entertainment in watching Van Damme play two distinctly different characters. Thanks to some reasonably effective movie trickery - body doubles, special effects, and the like - we get to see the twins interacting regularly. Philip Chan, as crime kingpin Raymond Zhang, and Alan Scarfe, as the nefarious Nigel Griffith, are decent action movie baddies in the classic tradition. Both the blonde Alonna Shaw (as Alex's girlfriend Danielle) and the athletic brunette Corinna Everson (as henchwoman Kara) add much sex appeal. The eternally solid and reliable Lewis is a tremendous asset to the story, lending it an appropriate amount of respectability."Double Impact" may not be memorable in the end, but it sure provides a nice diversion for the better part of two hours.Seven out of 10.

Believe it or not, there was a time when two Jean Claude Van Dammes were thought to be better than one. JCVD actually does a nice job here playing twins who are total opposites, managing to make each one distinct so that pretty soon you view them as two separate characters and not just JCVD and JCVD with slicked back hair. The rest of the cast fall in around JCVD well enough. Geoffrey Lewis classes things up as the mentor, and Bolo Yeung re-teams with Van Damme to create another menacing baddie.Logic and common sense are in short supply, but there's plenty of high kicking hijinks to ensure you don't notice, or at least don't care.