Maximum Risk
by Ringo Lam
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Actor: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Natasha Henstridge, Paul Ben-Victor, Zach GrenierDirector: Ringo Lam
Brand: Sony
Producer: Eugene Van Varenberg
Producer: Jason Clark
Producer: Limor Diamant
Producer: Moshe Diamant
Producer: Richard G. Murphy
Producer: Roger Birnbaum
Writer: Larry Ferguson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-05-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Maximum Risk
Movie Review: If you don't like this, you don't like action movies
Summary: 5 Stars
The Jean Claude Van Damme Review Matrix (JCVD-RM)
1. Who is he? At first he's a Russian guy named Mikhail Suverov, then he's a French Policeman named Alain Moreau
2. Which family member/friend must be avenged? When Suverov gets capped by the Russian mob, JCVDx2
3. Does he take his shirt off? In the most homoerotic of all places, a Russian bath-house, but he makes up for it later...
4. Does he have sex with a C-List actress? JCVD has never attained a higher level than Natasha Henstridge, who looks absolutely stunning
5. Is there a tournament? There is no tournament. But since there are two JCVDs, that wouldn't have been fair anyway, now would it?
6. Is training needed for this tournament? No training needed
7. Does he do the splits in training or in the tournament? No splits are done
8. Does he punch someone in the balls? An early knee to the sack is delivered just for the checkmark
9. Does he do a series of flying or 360 kicks? Most definitely
10. Is his enemy unbeatable? The Russian mob and the FBI are formidable, but far from unbeatable.
11. Does he overcome an injury or other hindrance? He gets stabbed early on, but `tis a flesh wound.
12. Does he win? It's like pouring a gallon of win into a shot glass.
Opening with the greatest "mobile fruit stand being pursued by the Russian mafia"-chase scene in cinema history, JCVD teams up with director Ringo Lam for his first completely jaw-dropping JCVD experience - they later paired up for Replicant (another JCVDx2 venture) and Wake of Death (JCVD's best acting job). From the very beginning, there is no doubt that awesome-factor 10 is about to ensue.
The plot is typical of Van Damme movies and soap operas: A relative of JCVD gets killed (i.e. JCVD #1), it turns out to be his twin brother, and it's up to JCVD to spin-kick and ball-punch his way through the Russian mafia for the answers. Without going to deep into it, this is tied for first place for all JCVD movies. A few reasons why:
- Natasha Henstridge completely nude, multiple times
- Claustrophobic car chase on narrow European streets
- The only JCVD movie to feature strippers
- Three of the best fight scenes in cinema history against a Russian behemoth (who looks like NFL-bust Brian Bosworth):
a) best fist fight inside a fiery inferno in cinema history
b) best elevator knife fight in cinema history
c) best non-gay bathhouse fight by two guys in nothing but towels in cinema history
To top it all off, I'm completely convinced the game Crazy Taxi (released in 1999) and Mel Gibson's character from Conspiracy Theory (1997) - conveniently one year after Maximum Risk - were completely plagiarized from an insane New York cab driver from this movie.
Summary of Maximum Risk
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