Synopsis
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
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Cast
- Jean-Claude Van DammeAlex / Chad Wagner
- Geoffrey LewisFrank Avery
- Alonna ShawDanielle Wilde
- Bolo YeungMoon
- Cory EversonKara
- Philip ChanRaymond Zhang
- Alan ScarfeNigel Griffith
- Andy ArmstrongPaul Wagner
- Wu FungChinese Nurse
- Kamel KrifaMahjong Manager
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
Double Impact offers two Jean-Claude Van Dammes for the price of one, and for fans of the Belgian-born martial arts star, it delivers the goods. It’s a solid, fast-moving action-adventure set largely in Hong Kong, which is dynamically photographed by Richard Kline. - 63
The Associated Press
Lawrence of Arabia it ain't. But who cares? The fighting is great, the action nonstop and this guy has killer legs from hell that can drop a 500-pound ninja before he can say Bruce Lee. - 63
Washington Post
The story is silly but entertaining, the fisti/footsycuffs are generally exciting and the laughs are common. Summer fare, basically. - 60
CineVue
Double Impact is a perfectly fine film, and is easily one of the best to come out of Van Damme’s back catalogue. If you want a film to have whilst drinking some ‘manly’ beers with ‘manly’ friends, then you could do much worse than . - 58
Entertainment Weekly
What makes Double Impact, for all its dull-witted theatrics, an energizing experience is the picture’s astonishing level of ballistic mayhem. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie has slick production values and a few clever lines, and is an invaluable illustration of the Principle of Evil Marksmanship. This principle, you will recall from my Glossary of Movie Terms, teaches us that in the movies the bad guys can never hit anything with a gun, and the good guys can hardly miss. - 40
Empire
Van Damme's doubling up merely tends to make this movie, co-written and co-produced by the self-styled Muscles From Brussels, twice as avoidable as it would otherwise be. - 40
The New York Times
As it turns out, two Jean-Claude Van Dammes are pretty much the same as one. Fans who like their action unadulterated by story, character or acting know where to find it.
