DVD Movie Rating for: Double Team

4 out of 5 stars

Movie Plot of: Double Team

Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, and Mickey Rourke don't belong to any army and they don't play by any rules. This high octane action-espionage thriller ignites in the cloak and dagger world of international spies, covert agents and high-tech terrorists opens April 4th.

DVD Production Details of: Double Team

Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman

Director: Hark Tsui

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios

DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001
DVD Features:
Theatrical trailer(s)

Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats

DVD Easter Eggs

None

Cast of the movie: Double Team

• Jean-Claude Van Damme.... Jack Quinn
• Dennis Rodman.... Yaz
• Mickey Rourke.... Stavros
• Paul Freeman .... Goldsmythe
• Natacha Lindinger .... Kathryn Quinn
• Valeria Cavalli .... Dr. Maria Trifioli
• Jay Benedict .... Brandon
• Joëlle Devaux-Vullion .... Stavros's Girlfriend
• Bruno Bilotta .... Kofi
• Mario Opinato .... James
• Grant Russell .... Carney
• William Dunn .... Roger
• Asher Tzarfati .... Moishe
• Rob Diem .... Dieter Staal
• Ken Samuels .... Stevenson

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Double Team

Reviews of the movie: Double Team

Look ma, no script! As expected from a movie by Hong Kong action director Hark Tsui, there are many explosive, fast-paced sequences in this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle. Some are thrilling, others inconsequential. There is also another mumbling, overdone performance by Mickey Rourke, who looks as if he performed his own plastic surgery. Except for an unintentionally humorous ending, the only surprise is Dennis Rodman as Van Damme's partner in exploitation. Rodman has plenty of charisma, but needs someone to weed out those inferior scripts. He plays an eccentric arms dealer coerced by an avenging Van Damme into tracking down the evil and sadistically weird character played by a well-muscled Rourke. It says little for the production that the best sequence of the movie occurs a quarter of the way into the action. It concerns an escape by Van Damme from an island think tank for forcibly retired covert agents. After that, everyone should have gone home.

I`d Forgotten Why Jean Claude Was Forgotten
It`s impossible to believe today in 2003 that a few years ago Jean Claude was a fairly famous film star , but his career soon hit the rocks as audiences became aware that his films were unnecessarily violent and very very dumb . Van Damme movies also lacked a sense of humour thereby ensuring his status at the box office was short lived . In other words a film containg the caption " Starring Jean Claude Van Damme " is not a good thing and I can`t help thinking DOUBLE TEAM is Jean Claude`s worst film

!!!!! MILD SPOILERS !!!!!

The major problem with DOUBLE TEAM is that the plot is so slippery it`s impossible to explain . It involves the hero Jack Quinn hunting arch-terrorist Stavros and because Quinn fails in his mission which leaves several people dead he`s given the choice of instant death or being exiled to an island similar to the one in THE PRISONER . He chooses exile but decides to break out to gain revenge on Stavros who`s planning to kill Quinn`s wife and new born child

If the last paragraph makes much sense then I`ve probably explained it all wrong because the plot is totally underdeveloped with a massive amount of scenes that lead nowhere . For example Quinn runs into an old rival on the island and gets involved in a fight . Who the rival is remains vague and we never see him again . It`s as though the screenwriter got bored with the subplot and discarded it while he was writing it and the film is littered with these subplots that are unexplained and go nowhere . I was also going to mention the climax with the tiger and the sports staduim that`s been mined but you`d never believe it