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The Shepherd
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In the Shepherd (or The Shepherd: Border Patrol depending on your DVD cover) Jean-Claude van Damme plays Jack Robideaux, a former New Orleans homicide detective now joining the border patrol of Columbus, New Mexico where illegal immigrants are trying to cross the border aided by drug smugglers who in return force these people to bring…
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Predator
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Deep in the South American jungle a group of American commandos is dropped off to go on a rescue mission. They consist of people like Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and are led by Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the jungle they quickly find out that there’s something hunting them as they are picked of one…
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Welcome to the Jungle
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Jean-Claude van Damme is probably one of the most interesting 80’s/90’s action stars working today. While Arnie, Sly and Steven stick to the tried and true action formula the last couple of years Van Damme suddenly pops up in all kinds of different projects. The almost art-house action movie “Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning” where…
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation is one of those movies that almost completely ignores its predecessor. Like Predator 2 there is little connecting the two movies. Only a few actors reprise their role. Channing Tatum is one of them and gets killed within 15 minutes. It’s understandable since the first movie was a critical failure but somehow…
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Fast & Furious 6
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I would have never guessed when The Fast and the Furious was released back in 2001 this would become a franchise with at least 7 movies (the seventh is in the pipeline). What I would have expect even less is that this franchise actually went upwards in terms of quality and scope instead of down…
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Bullet to the Head
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After two Expendables movies Stallone returns to starring solo in an action movie of the same vein that propelled him into super stardom in the 80’s. 4 years after killing a Birmese army alone in Rambo, Stallone returns to familiar ground playing a hit-man. In this case a hit-man who has to team up with…
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Fast & Furious
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With the return of Dominic Toretto at the end of part 3 the fourth movie, now simply called “Fast & Furious” brings back most of the original cast from the first movie. While the poster looks stylish and nothing like the dark with neon accented ones from the previous movies, the plot seems to be…
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Universal Soldier
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Before Roland Emmerich started blowing landmarks worldwide in a whole string of disaster movies like Independence Day and 2012 he had the towering Swede Dolph Lundgren take on The Muscles From Brussels Jean-Claude van Damme in Universal Soldier, a movie that certainly meant a step up for both of these actors who starred in low-budget…
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Dogma
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Dogma was Kevin Smith’s launch into main-stream movie making despite the controversial content. Clerks was an underground hit, Mallrats a teen comedy that was a flop and Chasing Amy a low-key romantic comedy. With Dogma, Smith had a lot of well known actors to his disposal which really helped him sell this movie to a…
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RED
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2010 must be the year of the action-teams. So far we’ve been treated to The Expendables, The Losers and The A-Team and now it’s time for a group of ex-spies who have been retired but suddenly find themselves to be targets for assassination. Bruce Willis is the one to be the first on the list…
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Machete
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From fake trailer to real action movie; Machete is a project that has the joy of the makers dripping off the screen. Obviously a pet project for Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo whose character Machete has been part in the Rodriguez universe for quite some time now and was one of the most memorable aspects…
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Iron Man 2
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If Iron Man 2 is lacking one thing compared to its predecessor it’s the element of surprise. Two years ago nobody thought a rather unknown superhero (compared to Spider-man and Batman) would be able to star in such a fun and thrilling movie. Expectation were a bit low to say the least but that changed…
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