THE BIGGEST FIGHT OF HIS LIFE.
Famous action-movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme, who’s in the middle of an ugly custody fight, returns to Belgium only to find himself involved in a postal robbery. Van Damme’s chance to show the world that there’s more to him than simply being “the muscles from Brussels”; I guess he can’t dropkick bad guys forever. It turns out that he’s actually a rather compelling figure, delivering a performance as a tragic version of himself that is well worth a look. The director has fun with the star’s traditional on-screen persona, but the robbery is the least engaging part.
2008-Belgium-Luxembourg-France. 96 min. Color. Widescreen. Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens (Christian Bruges), Zinedine Soualem (The Man With a Cap), Karim Belkhadra, Jean-François Wolff, Anne Paulicevich.
