The image measures 2200 1468 pixels and was added on 9 april 16. With dwayne adway, john terry, dee wallace, heidi mark. It has an 11% rating on rotten tomatoes, and rodman won three razzie awards. Rodman was the one colourful member of the chicago bulls threestar unbeatable scoring line,along with scotty pippen and the legendary michael jordan. It will give you some notion of this movie s strangeness if i tell you that dennis rodman does not play the most peculiar character. Van damme plays counterterrorist agent jack quinn, who is assigned to. Double team, jeanclaude van damme, mickey rourke, dennis. Dennis keith rodman yaz jeanclaude van damme jack quinn tag. Released april 4th, 1997, double team stars jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, mickey rourke, paul freeman the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 31 min, and received a score of out of 100. Jeanclaude van damme and dennis rodman team up as a worldclass counterterrorist and his flamboyant but deadly weapons dealer in this explosive actionadventure thriller. For this film, hark also had the privilege of guiding basketball star dennis rodman through his first dramatic role.
It was released to critical distaste, even if much money was spent filming in foreign places like van damme s native brussels, and in rome. Jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, mickey rourke is there a plot. Imagine the two men you would trust to stop the worlds most. International action star jeanclaude van damme pound of flesh was on a cinematic roll through the late 80s and into the mid 90s. Jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, paul freeman, mickey rourke jeanclaude van damme and dennis rodman team up as a worldclass counterterrorist and his flamboyant but deadly weapons dealer in this explosive actionadventure thriller. Paul walker, dwayne johnson, jeanclaude van damme, xhibit, dennis rodman, neyo, michael jai white, marques houston, various. Double team movie poster 27x40 c jeanclaude van damme. I was sceptic at first thinking what now, is this a terrible version of double impact. Van damme plays counterterrorist agent jack quinn, who is assigned to bring an elusive terrorist known as stavros to justice.
Dennis rodman and jean claude van damme star in double. Double team is a 1997 american action comedy film directed by tsui hark in his american directorial debut and starring jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman and mickey rourke. Double team, starring jeanclaude van damme, with the assist from dennis rodman, is a real slamdunk of an action picture. May 17, 2020 the plot explains why this dennis rodman movie bombed dennis rodman and jeanclaude van damme starred on the screen together in 1997. Double team dvd jean claude van damme dennis rodman mickey rourke. International action star jeanclaude van damme and basketballmedia sensation dennis rodman star as an unlikely team in this highoctane actionespionage thriller directed by hark tsui knock off, black mask.
Burning for vengeance on jeanclaude van damme, he captures van damme s newborn son and puts the tot in the center of the. I cant stress enough that the acting in this film actually makes it comical and more fun to watch. The movie is moving so fast here that the poor wife has her big childbirth scene reduced to a cameo someone shouts push. They move to seattle where, after humiliations, he trains with bruce lees ghost so he can defend himself and others against thugs. And when the two find themselves in the roman coliseum with a shirtless, muscle bound rourke, van damme s infant baby, a bunch of land mines and a tiger thrown into the mix, you know youre seeing a quality film.
Getty images one need not dig deeply into the plot to understand why double team was destined to be savaged by critics and largely ignored in theaters. Double team movie poster 27x40 c jeanclaude van damme dennis. Double teamreleased april97stars jean claude van damme as a secret counter terrorist expert jack quinn, dennis rodman as an antwerp arms dealer called yaz,and mickey rourke as their nemesis,a terrorist named stavros. Dennis rodman makes the movie interesting and funny at times. Kickboxer dvd original 1989 jean claude van damme arts martiaux film. All of the stunts are done well as its essentially a hong kong movie in europe. Double team publicity still of jeanclaude van damme. Double team 1997 stream and watch online moviefone. It has action, comedy and something different to other van damme movies made at the time. To be honest i wasnt expecting much with double team but i enjoyed the movie. Starring jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, mickey rourke, paul freeman, natacha lindinger, jay benedict, valeria cavalli.
Jason, a bruce lee fan, sees his karate instructordad beaten by martial art thugs. With jeanclaude van damme, powers boothe, raymond j. Double team 1997 full movie hd 1080p video dailymotion. With jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, mickey rourke, paul freeman. Tsui hark puts on a clinic on how to make a kinetic, energetic american action film that posterizes most american directors. Comentando a coloniadouble teamvan damme movie with. Van damme vs mickey rourke double team 1997 hd final. The warehouse of wonders presents the press kit for the 1997 movie, double team, a late 1990s jean claude van damme vehicle. A spy must team up with dennis rodman to stop a terrorist played by mickey rourke. The ludicrous dialogue and the scenes van damme and rodman end up in are enough to make the audience howl. Nov 03, 2009 dusted off the ol double team dvd to relive its awesomeness.
A former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the vice president and others hostage during the seventh game of the nhl stanley cup finals. Jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, mickey rourke, paul freeman writer. Double team 1997 an international spy jeanclaude van damme teams with a flamboyant weapons dealer dennis rodman to escape from a penal colony and save his family. Movie itself it quite catchy the fight of jack with asian man in the hotel room. Van damme and dennis rodman in double team 1997 dennis rodman in. R incoherent action junk from hong kong director hark, who brought little of his ballyhooed filmmaking prowess to his american debut, matching up van damme with nba superstar rodman and sending them. With jeanclaude van damme, adewale akinnuoyeagbaje, steven berkoff, nicholas farrell. Jean claude van damme star with dennis rodman in this failed attempt of an actionadventure. International action star jeanclaude van damme and basketballmedia sensation dennis rodman star as an unlikely team in this highoctane. American antiterrorist agent jack quinn van damme has retired from duty. Dennis is shown to be pushed by his momma to play pro ball and to go to college where he would get. Jean claude van damme net worth celebrity net worth. Jul 25, 2015 guaranteed save your time and money movie detail title. An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.
Double team 1997 press kit tsui hark van damme dennis. In antwerp, van damme meets yaz rodman in an omnisexual club in. Comentando a coloniadouble team van damme movie with mickey rourke e dennis rodman 1997. Van damme and rodman have one thing in common and that is a lack of acting skills. Jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, paul freeman, mickey rourke, hung yan yan, natacha lindinger, valeria cavalli, jay benedict running time. Though hes the nations top counterterrorist, jack quinn van damme wants to get out of the spy game. So that means the worm can really stretch his legs out and carry this bad boy. Don jakoby story, don jakoby screenplay, paul mones screenplay director. The film was van dammes first big box office bomb, and his 1998. However i gave the movie three stars because it delivered the action like it was supposed to. Double team by tsui hark jeanclaude van damme, dennis.
Dusted off the ol double team dvd to relive its awesomeness. Action adventure, starring jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman and mickey rourke. Mar 11, 2015 going into this movie, the only thing i know about it is that its the dennis rodman action movie that doesnt costar jeanclaude van damme. Double team is a 1997 american action comedy film directed by tsui hark in his american directorial debut and starring jeanclaude van damme, dennis rodman, and mickey rourke. Jeanclaude van damme, mickey rourke, dennis rodman. Dennis keith rodman born may, 1961 is an american retired professional basketball player. Dennis rodman got great career advice from a critic. In double team, which was directed by hong kong director tsui hark, van damme costarred alongside nba star dennis rodman. When he doesnt take the dive paid to take by a mob boss, he has to split. Jeanclaude van damme, natsha henstridge, jeanhughes anglade. Yes van damme is the star here naturally, but enter dennis rodman, one of the chicago bulls top players from a superstar team that was at the time virtually unbeatable.
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