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Double Impact on DVD (1991)

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Average rating: 61%
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Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Alan Scarfe | Geoffrey Lewis | Cory Everson
Director: Sheldon Lettich
Studio: SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 105 mins
Certificate: 18
User collections: Van Damme's Essential Collection | The world's most prolific stuntman, Vic Armstrong
Genres: Action/Adventure
Languages: English
Released: 21/08/2000

Brief synopsis of Double Impact

Identical twin boys are separated at a young age when their parents are brutally murdered by Chinese thugs, and raised in different parts of the world. Twenty-five years later they become united with a great hunger to avenge the deaths of their parents.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5 Radio Times

At this stage of his career, Jean-Claude Van Damme was having trouble convincing people that he was up to handling one role, so it was a tad ambitious for him to take on two in this otherwise straightforward action thriller. In a performance that adds new meaning to the term identical twins, Van Damme is equally wooden as the two brothers — one good, one a bit of a rogue — who are reunited to avenge the death of their parents. However, there's plenty of biffing, kicking and explosions for those who like that sort of thing, and reliable support from Geoffrey Lewis.

Halliwell's Film Guide

Two Van Dammes for the price of one merely doubles the incoherence of this otherwise ordinary martial arts movie.

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Rated - 4 starsTOP MOVIE !!!

A customer from GLASGOW , 28/01/2006

Jean-Claude Van Damme proves that two cracked heads are better than one in Double Impact. Van Damme plays twins Chad and Alex, who were separated at birth when their parents were brutally murdered by members of a Hong Kong criminal cartel. Incredibly both Chad and Alex have grown up to become world-class martial arts experts. Chad is a snobbish Californian karate instructor, while Alex is a cigar-smoking smuggler in Hong Kong. The two are brought back together by the family bodyguard Frank Avery (Geoffrey Lewis) to team up to avenge their parents' murder. But stacked against them is a thoroughly nasty, over-the-top assassin named Moon (martial arts film great Bolo Yeung).

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Rated - 2 stars

Eva#5 from GLASGOW , 20/07/2004

Quite simply the best Jean Claude Van Damme film ever. It is still a B movie but it is a fun one. This was why people used to think that the muscles from Brussels could make the transfromation to mainstream action star in Hollywood. It didn't happen but this is the movie that made people believe that it might have been. Good solid supporting cast and unlike on tv not edited into incomprehensibility. A little bit of humour, a little bit of romance, some plot and a whole lot of Jean Claude at the peak of his form.

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Rated - 5 starsexcellent

A customer from england , 26/01/2006

good film to watch great

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Rated - 4 starsTypical Van Damme and one of the better ones

A customer from Bebington, Merseyside , 23/07/2004

A bit old hat but still a thoroughly enjoyable all action film based around two identical twins(Van Damme)separated at birth with plenty of action and enough of a plot to keep Van Damme fans happy.

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Rated - 4 starsTypical Van Damme and one of the better ones

A customer from Bebington, Merseyside , 23/07/2004

A bit old hat but still a thoroughly enjoyable all action film based around two identical twins(Van Damme)separated at birth with plenty of action and enough of a plot to keep Van Damme fans happy.

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