At some point in his career, Jean-Claude Van Damme entered a curious state of constantly fighting his way back into the limelight. Van Damme burst onto the film scene in 1988 with the release of Newt Arnold's fight film "Bloodsport," and became one of the more notable action stars of the 1990s, appearing in "Kickboxer," Roland Emmerich's "Universal Soldier," John Woo's "Hard Target," sand titles such as "Timecop" and "Street Fighter." By the end of the 1990s, however, Van Damme's films seem to have fallen out of favor, and the Muscles from Brussels entered something of a fallow period that he...
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- 6/3/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Bloodsport
Written by Christopher Crosby, Mel Freidman and Shedon Lettich
Directed by Newt Arnold
USA, 1988
Every year in Hong Kong, an underground martial arts tournament is held in secrecy. The Kumite (a term given to a specific type of karate) is where the world’s best fighters come together on invitation to prove their worth in full contact fights, no questions asked. United States Army captain Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), having been trained under the auspices of Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao), has received his invitation to this year’s tournament and, against the orders of his immediate superiors, slips away from detection and travels to the Far East for the fight of his life. Once there, he meets fellow American fighter Ray Jackson (Donald Gibb) and nosy reporter Janice Kent (Leah Ayres), who wants a scoop on the action. Hounding Frank are two officers, Helmer and Rawlins (Norman Burton and,...
Written by Christopher Crosby, Mel Freidman and Shedon Lettich
Directed by Newt Arnold
USA, 1988
Every year in Hong Kong, an underground martial arts tournament is held in secrecy. The Kumite (a term given to a specific type of karate) is where the world’s best fighters come together on invitation to prove their worth in full contact fights, no questions asked. United States Army captain Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), having been trained under the auspices of Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao), has received his invitation to this year’s tournament and, against the orders of his immediate superiors, slips away from detection and travels to the Far East for the fight of his life. Once there, he meets fellow American fighter Ray Jackson (Donald Gibb) and nosy reporter Janice Kent (Leah Ayres), who wants a scoop on the action. Hounding Frank are two officers, Helmer and Rawlins (Norman Burton and,...
- 5/10/2014
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Hand to the action stars of the '80s: they certainly haven't let age get them down. Bruce Willis is still churning out explosive blockbusters, Stallone has his "Expendables," Robert Rodriguez finds ways to sustain Steven Segal's career and Arnold Schwarzenegger...well, he was inches away from a comeback.
Audiences can't get enough of their old school heroes.
So it's with open arms that we herald the return of Jean-Claude Van Damme, who returns to the world of contrived-plotlines-in-the-name-of-butt-kicking for the new movie "Six Bullets." The $10 million movie will be directed by direct-to-dvd maven Ernie Barbarash, reports Variety, and will star Van Damme as "an ex-mercenary kidnapping expert hired by a martial arts fighter whose daughter has gone missing."
Sure, that sounds fine. The article fails to mention if Van Damme will be dropping into a split in order to punch a bad guy in the balls, but for now,...
Audiences can't get enough of their old school heroes.
So it's with open arms that we herald the return of Jean-Claude Van Damme, who returns to the world of contrived-plotlines-in-the-name-of-butt-kicking for the new movie "Six Bullets." The $10 million movie will be directed by direct-to-dvd maven Ernie Barbarash, reports Variety, and will star Van Damme as "an ex-mercenary kidnapping expert hired by a martial arts fighter whose daughter has gone missing."
Sure, that sounds fine. The article fails to mention if Van Damme will be dropping into a split in order to punch a bad guy in the balls, but for now,...
- 6/22/2011
- by Matt Patches
- NextMovie
Producer Ed Pressman has confirmed with Screen Daily that he has closed a deal with 'Salt' director, Phillip Noyce to direct the upcoming 'Bloodsport' remake. Directed by Newt Arnold, the original starred Jean-Claude Van Damme as Frank Dux, an American martial artist who travels to Hong Kong, China to participate in a deadly martial arts tournament. Bolo Yeung played Chong Li, Frank's toughest and most ruthless opponent. The remake sounds to share a lot of similarities with the original -- as it should -- but the key differences seem to be the back-story and location. The protagonist of the film will once again be an American, but one who travels to Brazil in order to escape the violence he has faced in Afghanistan. From that, it sounds as though he was or is a soldier of sorts. Once in Brazil, he becomes aware of a martial arts tournament,...
- 5/18/2011
- LRMonline.com
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