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Legionnaire
1998
Van Damme is a playboy living in Paris in the 1920's. He falls in love with the mistress of a mob boss, and when the boss finds out, joins the French Foreign Legion to hide out. Years later, after honing his fighting skills, he returns to battle the boss and reclaim his true love. Read more
| Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell, Ana Sofrenovic |
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| Director | Peter MacDonald |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Legionnaire
Van Damme is a playboy living in Paris in the 1920's. He falls in love with the mistress of a mob boss, and when the boss finds out, joins the French Foreign Legion to hide out. Years later, after honing his fighting skills, he returns to battle the boss and reclaim his true love.
| Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Berkoff, Nicholas Farrell, Ana Sofrenovic |
|---|---|
| Director | Peter MacDonald |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Feb 2005 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this tired reworking of Beau Geste, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a boxer heading for Morocco to avoid some disgruntled punters in Paris. Riddled with implausibilities and acted with metronomic rigidity, it's notable for only one thing — Van Damme's isn't the worst performance on display. That honour goes to Steven Berkoff, whose extravagant posturing almost gives the film a cockeyed kudos. On the plus side, the training sequences and the battles with the Berbers are competently handled by Rambo III director Peter MacDonald, but he has little success in the scenes where his actors are required to talk.
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An attempt to revive the spirit and style of Beau Geste, but it's too little and too late.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
TOP MOVIE !!!
Van Damme is a playboy living in Paris in the 1920's. He falls in love with the mistress of a mob boss, and when the boss finds out, joins the French Foreign Legion to hide out. Years later, after honing his fighting skills, he returns to battle the boss and reclaim his true love.
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legionaire
A good part by v.damme as a legionare on the run as the legionares are french so it suited him the film was good in parts but not all of it could of done better
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- bluefox from Newcastle upon Tyne
- Posted 26 Jun 2009 19:17
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Legionnaire
Van Damme is a playboy living in Paris in the 1920's. He falls in love with the mistress of a mob boss, and when the boss finds out, joins the French Foreign Legion to hide out. Years later, after honing his fighting skills, he returns to battle the boss and reclaim his true love....
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