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11 January 1991 (USA) moreTagline:
Honour or revenge, he has no choice... morePlot:
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
Sr (International) Picks: Jcvd & Let The Right One In(From Screen Rant. 30 September 2008, 4:51 PM, PDT)
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Up there in Van Dammage's top five flicks! more (54 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jean-Claude Van Damme | ... | Léon Gaultier | |
| Harrison Page | ... | Joshua Eldridge | |
| Deborah Rennard | ... | Cynthia | |
| Lisa Pelikan | ... | Hélène Gaultier | |
| Ashley Johnson | ... | Nicole Gaultier | |
| Brian Thompson | ... | Russell | |
| Voyo Goric | ... | Sgt. Hartog (as Voyo) | |
| Michel Qissi | ... | Moustafa | |
| George McDaniel | ... | Adjutant | |
| Eric Karson | ... | Doctor | |
| Ash Adams | ... | François Gaultier (as Jason Adams) | |
| William T. Amos | ... | Drug Dealer | |
| Roz Bosley | ... | Nurse | |
| Dennis Rucker | ... | Irish Legionnaire (as Dennis Wayne Rucker) | |
| Billy Blanks | ... | African Legionnaire |
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Wrong Bet (Australia) (USA) (working title)A.W.O.L. (USA) (working title)
A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave (UK)
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Germany:18 (video premiere) (cut) | Germany:18 (re-release) (uncut) | Australia:M (DVD rating) | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-18 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | Iceland:16 | Australia:RFun Stuff
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Before we head off down critical trail, lets be charitable. This is a Van Damme flick - more or less its own genre, certainly sufficiently signposted for the unwary to avoid if this is not their comfort zone. Now I have to admit to a certain bias - we have almost every film Van Damme has ever made, and for the most part, on simply an entertainment scale, Jean Claude delivers the goods. (Even as late as REPLICANT)
This offering - known pretty much EVERYWHERE but the US as WRONG BET (By far the better title when you watch it) is value for money. You wanna see classical acting? go study Laurence Olivier's HENRY V. You fancy mind bending sci-fi...hell, Kubrick's 2001 ain't never gonna be topped. You want to laugh yourself senseless? go watch a Renny Harlin flick...but you want to see some serious hurting on screen...let Van Damme loose.
I am tiring of the incessant complaints that Van Damme can't act! Did he ever say he could? How many of his detractors could do any better? Could John Wayne? did anyone ever want to SEE him being anything BUT John Wayne? JCVD does a half decent job here I have to say and it strikes me as a case of "let him who is without sin" etc etc when it comes to assassinating his thespian talents.
This film has plenty going for it......namely action, conviction and courage. In the genre in which it finds itself necessarily categorised, I believe a 7 is in order!