Cast Member: Jean-Claude Van Damme

‘6 Bullets’ is a decent little action B movie with a couple of enjoyable fights and a fine performance from Van Damme as the grizzled assassin.

Low budget, straight-forward, though with a couple of unexpected twists and turns, this was a fun and surprisingly action packed ride.

What puts it slightly above most is the charisma of a youthful Van Damme coupled with some decent action.

It’s not exactly the best Van Damme movie around, but ‘Double Team’ remains entertaining fluff thanks to a few entertaining action highlights.

The film wastes the majority of talent involved and meanders along without anything even remotely memorable to offer.

‘Hard Target’ always seems to be credited simply as John Woo’s first American movie, but I actually think it is more accurately labelled as his best Hollywood outing.

Van Damme puts in a very strong leading performance and Lam helps elevate some mediocre material to a much higher status.

Perhaps the only downside is that I would still rather watch one of Van Damme’s straight action pictures.

Certainly tries to recapture some of the magic of the genre defining original but unfortunately ends up a somewhat shallow effort.

‘Kill ’Em All’ has a gem of an idea at its core but squanders it with needless flashbacks, unnecessary characters and terrible editing.

Almost non-existent scripting and farcical characters that fail to provide the film with the necessary substance.

It’s far better than other American style martial arts movies such as ‘China O’Brien’, ‘American Shaolin’ and the like, showing what can be done if a little extra time is taken over the choreography.