JCVD

Damme Fine!

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Well, never thought I'd ever enjoy a Jean Claude movie so much as this (guilty pleasures TIME COP and UNIVERSAL SOLDIER aside!) Mabrouk El Mechri delivers the impossible - a film in which JCVD acts - yeah, I know, really! By turns witty, moving, intelligent - all the words you'd never imagined seeing in a review of a Van Damme movie. It's post, post modern. Van Damme plays Van Damme and it all goes Van Damme. The scene in which he talks direct to camera and we rise up in the air above the set is a showstopper - I swear those are REAL tears in JCVD's eyes - not CGI! Far more entertaining and jaw-dropping than a hundered Van Damme action flics - this really is remarkable. And the DVD contains an excellent behind the scenes doco that plays out like a parallel "JCVD" movie. Well worth getting into - put up with the first 20-minutes, give yourself up to the central conceit and it's a damme ball!

Five stars just for the sheer balls of it! It should never have worked - but it DAMME WELL DOES!