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Maximum Risk Details

1996 Certificate 18 Certificate 18
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After making several violent Hong Kong action films in the style that's come to be known as heroic bloodshed, Ringo Lam came to Hollywood to make his first American film with Belgian martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. MAXIMUM RISK, like Van Damme's previous DOUBLE IMPACT, is the story of twin brothers. Unlike the earlier .. Read more

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Stephane Audran, Natasha Henstridge, Paul Ben-Victor
Director Ringo Lam
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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After making several violent Hong Kong action films in the style that's come to be known as heroic bloodshed, Ringo Lam came to Hollywood to make his first American film with Belgian martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. MAXIMUM RISK, like Van Damme's previous DOUBLE IMPACT, is the story of twin brothers. Unlike the earlier film--in which he played brothers with contrasting characters--here he's a French policeman, Alain Moreau, who takes on the identity of his dead brother, Mikhail. They were separated at birth when their mother, Chantal, played by veteran French film actress Stephane Audran, gave one up for adoption to a Russian diplomat. He grew up to become a member of the new Russian Mafia operating out of the Little Odessa section of New York City. When Mikhail is murdered in France after a wild chase through the streets, Alain goes to New York, where he's assumed to be Mikhail by everyone from the local Russian crime boss to his brother's beautiful girlfriend, Alex (Natasha Henstridge) Working with a seemingly unlimited budget for car crashes, Lam stages the action scenes with a kinetic flair and smartly knits them together with the help of sharp editing by Bill Pankow.

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Stephane Audran, Natasha Henstridge, Paul Ben-Victor, Frank Senger, Zach Grenier, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Director Ringo Lam
Studio UCA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 36 mins
LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 36 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 40 mins
Certificate Certificate 18 DVD
Certificate 18 LOVEFiLM Instant
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
LOVEFiLM Instant: English
Blu-ray: English
Subtitles DVD: None
Blu-ray: Arabic, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released Production year: 1996

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