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- Bloodsport. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres. 1,379 votes. Bloodsport, released in 1988, showcases Jean-Claude Van Damme's incredible martial arts skills and athletic prowess as Frank Dux, an American soldier who competes in the underground fighting tournament known as Kumite.
- Kickboxer. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan. 1,218 votes. In this thrilling 1989 release, Van Damme stars as Kurt Sloane, a man seeking vengeance after his brother is paralyzed by the ruthless Muay Thai champion Tong Po.
- Hard Target. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo. 1,031 votes. In this 1993 action-thriller, Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Chance Boudreaux, a drifter who becomes entangled in a dangerous game of human hunting orchestrated by wealthy elites.
- Lionheart. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Rennard, Harrison Page. 977 votes. Van Damme delivers another compelling performance in the 1990 action-drama Lionheart.
1. Bloodsport. 1988 1h 32m R. 6.8 (96K) Rate. 29 Metascore. "Bloodsport" follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur. Director Newt Arnold Stars Jean-Claude Van Damme Donald Gibb Leah Ayres. 2. Kickboxer.
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- JCVD (2008) - 84% Speaking of dramatic performances, here is Van Dammes finest hour. JCVD is an almost autobiographical drama about Van Damme basically playing himself.
- The Bouncer (2018) - 83% Let's face it, every aging tough guy gets a movie like this. Charles Bronson got it in the 1970s with Death Wish. Clint Eastwood had Gran Torino.
- Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) - 81% Jean-Claude Van Damme would be one of many actors contributing their voice talents to Kung Fu Panda 2. In a cast that includes Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, James Hong, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, and many more, Van Damme voiced Master Croc.
- No Retreat, No Surrender (1985) - 80% No Retreat, No Surrender feels like it is trying to capitalize on the success of The Karate Kid and even something along the lines of Rocky IV with its Russian bad guy.
- Bloodsport (1988) “If I can grab it before you close your hand, I get the girl.” After both limited screen time and dialogue in the glorious 80s treat that is No Retreat, No Surrender, in which he’d played the lead villain, Bloodsport marked Van Damme’s breakthrough as both leading man and straight-to-video star.
- Universal Soldier (1992) “The food is good.” When Universal Soldier was released I almost wept with joy. Thanks to Van Damme’s productivity in the previous few years, I was a full-blown fan by the time it appeared on the big screen and that, coupled with my love of Dolph Lundgren after a solid run from Rocky IV to Showdown In Little Tokyo, meant I was one excited geek, and Universal Soldier did not disappoint.
- Timecop (1994) “I’m still kicking, I must be on Broadway.” Any self-respecting action star should, at some point in their career, have a blockbuster sci-fi feature under their belt.
- Hard Target (1993) “Now take your big stick and your boyfriend and find a bus to catch.” The universal appeal of Jean Claude Van Damme has meant that he’s been chosen by quite a few directors making their first English language feature film, especially from the far east.
- Desert Heat
- Derailed
- Second in Command
- We Die Young
- Black Water
- In Hell
- Swelter
- Legionnaire
- Until Death
- The Hard Corps
Also known by the title of Inferno, Desert Heat follows Van Damme as Eddie Lomax, a suicidal former soldier who finds himself facing a local gang after the theft of his prized motorcycle. One of Van Damme’s early straight-to-video movies, Desert Heat has some decent ideas on its mind with Eddie as a neo-Western anti-hero. Unfortunately, the drama o...
A low-rent riff on Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Derailed sees Van Damme as NATO officer Jacques Kristoff, who finds himself navigating a terrorist takeover of a train with his family on board (Jacques’ son also played by Van Damme’s real-life son, Kristopher Van Varenberg.) The dull Derailed is the complete opposite of what the straight-to-video ...
When the U.S. embassy in Moldova comes under attack, U.S. Navy SEAL Sam Keenan (Van Damme) is the only hope of stopping the terrorist plot. Yet, despite the stakes of the story, there's little to recommend in Second in Command. The action scenes do little to impress, making very flat use of Van Damme's talents, while the story and characters fail t...
In the commendable but largely average We Die Young, Jean-Claude Van Damme takes on the role of military veteran Daniel, who becomes a guardian of kids in a rough Washington D.C. neighborhood ruled over by drug lords. Daniel's bond with the kids he seeks to protect including Lucas (Elijah Rodriguez) emotionally invests viewers in the younger charac...
Another Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren team-up is the order of the day in Black Water, with the two action stars playing Scott Wheeler and Marco as they try to escape a CIA black site aboard a submarine. The low-budget restrictions of Black Water are never far from view, but the dedication of the two leads keeps the story and close-quarters action sc...
The title says it all in Van Damme’s 2003 prison movie In Hell, in which he plays Kyle LeBlanc, sentenced to life in a Russian prison after avenging the murder of his wife. With MMA just starting to go mainstream at the time, In Hell changes up Van Damme’s fighting style with a much greater emphasis on grappling. In Hell is a genuinely unenjoyable ...
Half-Western and half-crime caper, Swelter zeroes in on one-time criminal Bishop (Lennie James), whose old gang, remembering him as "Pike," re-enters his smalltown life in their search for missing cash. James is as strong a screen presence as he is on Fear the Walking Dead, but the rote script doesn't rise about its routine beats. Van Damme is on h...
One-time Predator star Jean-Claude Van Damme made another foray into dramatic work with Legionnaire, with little real impact coming out of it. Set in 1925, French boxer Alain Lefèvre (Van Damme) joins the French Foreign Legion after the tragic outcome of refusing to throw a fight, and finds new purpose with his brothers in arms. Legionnaire was Van...
Falling into the more middling corner of Van Damme's 21st century straight-to-video work, Until Death sees him as drug-addicted detective Anthony Stowe, whose experiencing in a coma after a brush with death leads him to re-evaluate his life and approach to police work. Until Death might be called a noir thriller, but that'd be giving it excess cred...
Though The Hard Corps brought Van Damme back together with his longtime collaborate Sheldon Lettich as director and co-writer, The Hard Corps is passable but little more. Van Damme plays war veteran Phillip Sauvage is hired as a bodyguard by Wayne Barclay (Raz Adoti) against an assassination attempt feared by his sister Tamara (Vivica A. Fox). Some...
Jean-Claude Van Damme Movies Ranked. We’re ranking the films of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme! We start with his Certified Fresh projects, including voicing Master Croc in Kung Fu...
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