Category: Van Damme
BMFcast560 – Street Fighter – Li-fenestra-chun
Street Fighter (1994) is a big ol’ mess of a video game movie featuring a coked up Jean-Claude Van Damme and a sadly dying Raul Julia butting heads while a whole bunch of supporting characters… also do stuff. It’s nothing like the video games but some of the costumes are accurate!
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BMFcast Extra 203 – Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) is the last UniSol movie to date and also the strangest, in a franchise FILLED with bizarre entries. Scott Atkins joins the franchise as a pissed off dad trying to uncover the reasons why Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) murdered his family. Dolph Lundgren is also here, inexplicably, having died in two previous Universal Soldier films.
This episode was previously premium Patreon content which originally posted on November 17th, 2020.
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BMFcast545 – Hard Target – Jeankata
Hard Target (1993) was director John Woo’s first American effort. Lance Henriksen is hunting men in New Orleans and Jean-Claude Van Damme gets in the middle of it. It’s a mess of a film for many different reasons, but in the end it is both silly as hell and ridiculously awesome.
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BMFcast Extra 192 – Kickboxer
Kickboxer (1989) is Jean-Claude Van Damme’s… okay look, you all know what Kickboxer is. We watched it.
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BMFcast Extra 172 – Universal Soldier Regeneration
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) is technically the fifth installment of the franchise that peaked with the first film and has never come close since. And sadly this is a shot in Bulgarian rubble film with a sad performance from JCVD and an absolutely bizarre turn from Dolph Lundgren (who, don’t forget, was thrown into a wood chipper at the end of the first one).
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BMFcast Extra 146 – Replicant
Replicant (2001) is a late stage Jean-Claude Van Damme movie that deserves your time. He plays both a serial killer and his genetic duplicate, the latter of which has been paired up with grumpy detective Michael Rooker to help catch the former. Van Damme fights himself several times, and those aren’t even the craziest scenes in this bonkers actioner directed by Ringo Lam.
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BMFcast Extra 134 – Universal Soldier The Return
Universal Soldier The Return (1999) is really Universal Solider IV except this movie wants you to treat it like Universal Soldier II. Luc Deveraux is back, this time completely stripped of his Universal Soldier powers to battle the likes of Michael Jai White and Bill Goldberg. It’s a mess… and a delight.
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BMFcast Extra 120 – Universal Soldier
Universal Soldier (1992) is the first of 97 pairings of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. It’s a somewhat underrated action film that somehow has half a dozen sequels. Also, it’s the perfect Easter movie, what with all the resurrections and such.
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BMFcast452 – Nowhere to Run – Top Heavy
Nowhere to Run (1993) is a lesser entry in Jean Claude Van Damme’s wildly inconsistent 90s filmography but there’s still fun to be had in this Shane-esque tale of a mystery man who saves a family from evil land developers, led by Joss Ackland and Ted Levine.
In the second half we’ve got Ant-Man and the Wasp, Bohemian Rhapsody and IO talk, plus your emails and voicemails. Enjoy!
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BMFcast Extra 104 – Black Water
Black Water (2018) is still banking on your nostalgia for the pairing of Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. It’s a “submarine” movie that clearly doesn’t take place inside one, and was mostly filmed in Mobile, Alabama. It’s about as mundane as you can get, but is it bad?
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