JCVD

This has got to be one of the more fascinating career moves.  Jean-Claude Van Damme kind of mocks his action-hero status in JCVD playing a semi-fictional rendition of himself in a sendup of the genre that made him an international star.  Now I have never seen a Van Damme film so I didn’t appreciate the references to movie titles and trade-mark moves in the film. Thus I didn’t laugh as often as other audience members.  From what I gather the Van Damme style of acting, besides the physical stuff, is long pauses between words.  I am getting a little tired of the flash back jumbling story telling style.  You know what you see something that happens in the middle of plot before you see what happens at the beginning the plot.  Please!  How about some good old fashion linear story lines? And let’s use all colors of the spectrum.  The look here is really washed out.   All in all an entertaining film with a disappointing ending. [ RT ]