Double Team

1997

Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Thriller

43
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 11% · 19 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 36556 36.6K

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Plot summary

A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.


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Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jack Quinn
Mickey Rourke as Stavros
Jay Benedict as Brandon
Valéria Cavalli as Dr. Maria Trifioli
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BA_Harrison 8 / 10

Most people will dismiss this as junk. I, on the other hand...

A logic-free action flick that stretches plausibility way beyond breaking point, Double Team stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as counter-terrorist expert Jack Quinn who, after a botched mission to kill international terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke), becomes an unwilling participant in a top secret think-tank on a remote island colony for agents that are considered 'too valuable to kill, but too dangerous to set free'.

When Stavros (Mickey Rourke) abducts Jack's pregnant wife, having vowed revenge for the accidental death of his son during the earlier shootout, Jack escapes the colony, seeks help from an S&M freak gun dealer named Yaz (played by eccentric basketball bad-boy Dennis Rodman), and embarks on a dangerous rescue mission that culminates in an explosive showdown inside a coliseum.

Opening with Quinn escaping from some bad guys by jumping a heavily armoured stolen vehicle through a speeding train (without the aid of a ramp), this film is completely crazy from the get go, and Hong Kong director Tsui Hark doesn't let the insanity subside until the very end, chucking in such spectacular nonsense as Van Damme kicking the crap out of bad guys while hanging from an air-plane cargo net, a Chinese killer who uses his knife with his foot, a top secret society of cyber-monks, and a finale that sees the good guys fight a tiger in the middle of a mine field before escaping certain death from fireball through the use of a Coke vending machine.

Special mention must also be made of the incredible amount of glass that gets smashed during the film (usually because someone has been thrown through it).

Although I'll never quite understand how this film got green-lit, I'm sure glad it did: a more enjoyably insane piece of 90s nonsense you'll be hard pushed to find.

Call me crazy, but I rate Double Team 8 out of 10 simply for being so bloody silly.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 4 / 10

Good action Poor acting

Stavros (Mickey Rourke) is about to sell Plutonium, stolen from the US, to the Iraqis. It is the final mission of secret agent Jack Quinn (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to stop him, and he barely escapes stealing back the Plutonium. It's 3 years later in the South of France, Jack is retired with his pregnant wife. But Stavros is back and the CIA needs Jack to track him down. Dennis Rodman costars as flamboyant arms dealer Yaz.

It's almost painful to watch Dennis Rodman act with Van Damme. Van Damme was never the most natural actor around with his accent. I've often wonder if he should speak in other languages when he's playing secret agents. Reading subtitles would be an improvement.

The action is pretty good. The movie starts off with a major truck chase. It gets off on the right foot. Things blow up, bullets are flying, everybody is kung fu fighting, and there is mayhem everywhere in this movie. I have no complaints about the action.

But there is nothing that can be done with all the bad acting. The story is ridiculous and stupid. It's trying very hard to be something big. While it has most of the look, the movie is nothing more than sub par.

Reviewed by kosmasp 6 / 10

Crazy for you

Van Damme and Dennis Rodman are not a couple ... well not in the movie and not outside of it. But they might both have been in the height of their craziness. One can only imagine what Tsui Hark had to go through ... back in the 90s the really good directors from Hong Kong came over to Hollywood and it seems like they had to do their first movie with van Damme.

Being a fan (even more so back in the day), I had no issue with that. I probably had other values, which I do not regret nor do I think less of most of the films he made. Considering he was mostly under the influence of hard drugs that was quite something ... his performances and the fact the movies were made at all. He survived all that (no pun intended) and while he is not a big star at the moment, his fan base is still there. And he can act ... a shame that is not being utilized more.

If you watch this and the completely crazy story it tells, you may not be entirely be able to tell. There are a lot of things here, that would and I reckon have worked in the Hong Kong movies Hark made. Not all have the same impact in this movie. When it comes to blatant advertising though, this couldn't be more bold ... Coke must have been quite happy with the result ... or maybe not if they didn't like the movie.

Action and stunt set pieces work greatly, Rodman is decent if unstable and all over the place and Mickey Rourke is as buff ... well I don't think I've seen him more buff ... maybe in the Wrestler ... and he goes as crazy as he is allowed to. Handgranades and babies do not mix well ... well a lot of mayhem and a lot of broken glass - Die Hard and Hard Boiled hommages? Maybe, some will like them more than others I reckon ... one thing is for sure, Razzies were not "earned". This is far more entertaining than the worst couple award and the three razzies suggest ... or maybe that is exactly what they suggest?

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