Legionnaire
by Peter MacDonald
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Actor: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jim Carter, Nicholas Farrell, Steven BerkoffDirector: Peter MacDonald
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Writer: Jean-Claude Van Damme
Producer: Christian Halsey Solomon
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Producer: Gregory G. Woertz
Writer: Rebecca Morrison
Writer: Sheldon Lettich
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Legionnaire
Movie Review: kungfuless
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the few and possibly only Van Damme movie where the character isn't a martial artist but a man running from his past and who joins the Foreign Legend around 1925. The DVD also features a history of the legend which was well presented and quite interesting. The film remains faithful to the grim life of the Legionaires and I give Van Damme credit for trying a different type of action movie. This movie stands with Time Cop and Sudden Death as great action films that can be enjoyed again and again.
Summary of Legionnaire
A 1920s playboy falls in love with a mob bosss mistress then has to flee by joining the french foreign legion when the mobster finds out about the affair. Years and many fighting techniques later he decides he must return to fight to the death for his lady. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 11/05/2002 Starring: Jean-claude Van Damme Jim Carter Director: Peter MacdonaldExiled to a video-only release when its distributor balked after the flop of Jean-Claude Van Damme's previous film Knock Off, this lavish adventure deserved a chance at theatrical success. Action icon Van Damme recasts himself as a tragic romantic hero in this entertaining old-fashioned adventure with a modern sensibility. "The Muscles from Brussels" is no Brando, but he acquits himself nicely as a cocky boxer who double-crosses a Marseilles mobster and joins the French Foreign Legion when his half-baked plan backfires with tragic consequences. Surrounded by a better than usual cast (including Steven Berkoff as a Teutonic drill sergeant, Jim Carter as the ruthless ganglord, and Nicholas Farrell as a gentleman soldier with a taste for gambling and a dark past), Van Damme's dour performance sometimes gets lost in the colorful characters around him. But that's okay--there's adventure enough to go around and he's willing to share it. The Marseilles scenes evoke a quaint movie past with their smoky bars and shadowy streets, but the film is reborn as an ambitious, stoic platoon drama in the sands of French Morocco. Legionnaire alludes to classic films from Beau Geste to Casablanca to Lawrence of Arabia, but ultimately marches its own macho course, reveling in testosterone-driven heroics and bonding-under-fire while acknowledging the irony of its colonial mission ("We're the intruders," realizes one soldier). It's a calculated risk for Van Damme (who also cowrote and coproduced), but if Legionnaire never quite grasps the epic scope it's reaching for, it remains one of his best films, a handsome, exciting, and surprisingly grim desert adventure. --Sean Axmaker
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