A thing you have to understand before I do any more reviews on here is that I love the cheese. Any genre if it's OTT and badly acted and falls on the correct side of bad, I get a real kick out of it.
With that in mind here's Double Impact the 1991 actioner starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and ho ho wait for it...Jean-Claude Van Damme! Yep - twice! "Double the Van Dammage" as the box states (no really it does).
Directed by Sheldon Lettich who directed other JCVD 'classics' The Hard Corps, The Order and AWOL (or Lionheart for every non British reader) Double Impact is about 2 twins (Van Damme obviously) separated at birth after their parents were murdered.
The guy who who looks out for one of the twins - Chad (who comes across very, very gay not sure if this was intended or not) decides its time to reunite the twins and sends Chad over to Hong Kong to meet Alex, ad they go and avenge their parents.
Double Impact wastes no time in bringing out the JCVD specialty that is the splits. Just seconds after you first meet Chad he is doing it (as pictured above, sadly in Lycra) and doesn't waste any time in moving the action to Hong Kong.
After that it's exactly what you'd expect - bad acting and dialogue and lots of fighting. But the real enjoyment is from the fact that the acting is so bad it's good. The female lead has no acting talent whatsoever and sounds like she has just emerged from a coma.
Theres no point even slating it really, I watched it hoping it would be bad and I wasn't disappointed!
***
A 2 star film + 4 star enjoyment. But not doubled though, enough of that in the film.
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