funny, not the way it was meant to be though,

This entire movie is one big unintentional self parody by Van Damme and Dennis Rodman. For awhile in the 90's Rodman was godlike in his celebrity status because he was the "bad boy" flavor of the year. The result is Rodman/Van Damme vanity projects such as this churned out by coke addled Hollywood producers. It's a shame that Tsui Hark was roped into this because he can be a competent action director when he's not working with Hollywood.

You can tell the writers were bored out of their minds every time they had to write a line for a woman in this movie.

Its strange to think that - once upon a time when Van Damme was a major star, Hong Kong action directors were in 'vogue' and a basketball player appeared in everything from this to wrestling - action films were this strange and insane. With complete disregard for plot points and a coherent tone (Mickey Rourke, as the villain, goes from a human baddie to a generic evil one and back again), its compelling in its randomness. The final fight managed to be ridiculous to the point it dumbfounded me.

lol

Despite having one of the most ludacrously awesome endings in all of the history of cinema, the movie was pretty dumb and poorly made everywhere else within its contents. It's overall a pretty generic 80's action movie{even though it was made in the 90's!} with nothing to really make it interesting or stand out.

Parts of it were enjoyable, but the one-liners were awful, the acting was terrible, and the story was just weird.

The best kind of horrible use of product placement takes place at the end. I don't want to spoil anything from this, such a valuable and essential film, but it is hilarious. Everything about the finale is, actually.

Van Damme vs Rourke

Mistakenly rented this from pay per view thinking by title alone that it was a porno. Turns out most porno have better scripts, and acting.

I almost can't remember now if I saw this or just laughed at the cover. This was about when my dad was renting every Van Damme movie that came along and I didn't have anything better to do than to watch them... so I'll assume I watched it. it sounds sort of familiar.

i don't know whether to give this a 100 or a 0. it could be the perfect action movie if you look at it one way, but there are so so so many things that are glaringly wrong with it, it's hard to justify any score. i would say this 10 is being generous. when DENNIS RODMAN rides in on a dirt bike to the floor of the colosseum to save jcvd's minutes old new born who has been kidnapped while avoiding a sniper, a tiger, and land-mines, something is very, very wrong.

Poor Hark Tsui :(

The pinnacle of suck. Exactly as bad as you'd imagine a Van Damme-Rodman collaboration to be.

One of the more ridiculous films I've ever scene.