![]() And it showed off Van Damme’s skills as a movie star, playing two completely different roles – One a yoga instructor brought up in New York City, the other a hardened criminal fending for himself in Hong Kong. Giving us not one awesome Van Damme hero, but two. Taking a major action star and having him play two ass-kicking roles in one movie was unheard of back then. Hellbent on revenge, the newly paired brothers must work together to bring down the vicious criminal and his gang of many, in a ballet of blood, kicks, and bullets.ĭouble Impact is vintage 1990s action. What’s better than 1 Van Damme? 2 Van Dammes! Van Damme takes on his first duel role as twin brothers Chad and Alex, separated as babies, but brought back together as they discover that their parents were brutally murdered by a Hong Kong crime boss. So to celebrate the awesome classic movies of the one and only Jean-Claude Van Damme, here are the 5 most awesome movies from the Muscles From Brussels. ![]() But you must never forget the days when Van Damme ruled action cinema alongside Schwarzenegger and Stallone. Of late, the great man may not feature at your local Cineplex often, if at all. Throughout the years, Van Damme has brought us action fans an unlimited level of jaw-dropping action movies, with a wide range of genres – Thriller, horror, comedy, sci-fi, war, romance and of course martial arts. A man who needs no introduction – The legend that is Jean-Claude Van Damme. While Arnie and Sly remain iconic for all time, there is another name that belongs between them. The go-to guys when we need to escape the world we’re living in and watch our favorite heroes save the day in theirs. 1.To people of a certain age, the names Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal and Jackie Chan send shivers of excitement down the spine. ![]() It oversimplified legitimate computing by increasing the level of ’90s cheese and upping the techno-cliches. While cybercrime is a reality, and even being covered by auteurs like Michael Mann in his movie Blackhat, Hackers went the cartoonish route. Zero Cool and his friends - with hacker names like Acid Burn, the Phantom Phreak, Cereal Killer, and Lord Nikon, who go around screaming credos like “Hack the planet!” - are targeted for the crime by another super hacker named “The Plague,” forcing the group to launch their own cyberattack to prevent ecological disaster. In the movie, a hacker named Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy unknowingly uncovers a high-tech embezzling scheme masked by a computer virus that will destroy the world’s ecosystem. Hackers is a perfect case of studio executives and an overzealous screenwriter riding a craze to the point of absurdity. At least that’s what this 1995 camp classic starring Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie wanted you to believe. In the hard-hitting future of 1996, hackers will rule the world. We can also mercilessly mock the movies that tried to predict the future and failed miserably. It a fine thing, to hail these forward-looking creatives. Even Back to the Future Part II had its fair share of hits. In Total Recall, Paul Verhoeven totally called Google’s self-driving cars three decades early, though thankfully Google isn’t yet churning out Johnny Cabs. Stanley Kubrick threw in a multi-functional screen/computer-type thing that was basically a chatty iPad in 2001, and now he’s regarded as a visionary. Some of the best examples of science fiction were prescient in their then-lofty but earnest predictions about how future humanity would be living in the mysterious and strange near-future of the 21st century. In the best sci-fi movies, audiences can recognize the faults of reality through a seemingly distant but advanced view of things to come. For the most part, sci-fi tends to do a whole lot of predicting of what will happen by basing those ideas in what already has happened.
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