I love Van Damme. Yeah he was never going to win a best actor Oscar, but God Damme he entertained me throughout my childhood. I appreciate his whole film catalogue, he just loved to act, make money and look good doing it. He nailed all 3, regardless of how you feel about this movie. Van Damme has more acting talent in his right hand then Seagal has in his whole bloated body. I love JCVD.

"You're trying hard not to look at it, but...you're looking at it"...line of the century

Believe it or not,I saw this masterpiece in the cinema!😝

I absolutely love this movie. It makes no sense, it doesnt really explain anything and its all the better for it. Pure Van Damme

I saw this in the theater the very weekend it came out and it was amazing 😂 . . . Christ I’m old!!!

VanDamme's buddy - "There is a backdoor too, you... of all people should know that". Mickey Rourke - "It's a little tight in the rear". Me - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This movie is phenomenal and only gets better with age. I seen it in the theater with my buddy and it was equal parts hilarious and dumbfounding. This had "what the hell just happened" in buckets. And also this channel is laugh out loud funny and that's rare.

Some Fun Facts: - This was directed by legendary Hong Kong director/producer Tsui Hark. The guy is known as ''Spielberg of Hong Kong'', because he produced/directed more B.O. hits in Hong Kong, than anybody else. JCVD made later another movie with him, called ''Knock-Off''. Both have the typical, over-the-top 90's Hong Kong-style fight choreo and stunt work. During the 90's/early 00's JCVD worked with a bunch of Hong Kong directors like John Woo (''Hard Target''), the late Ringo Lam (''Replicant'', ''Maximum Risk'', ''From Hell'') and did the 2 aforementioned movies, by Tsui Hark. - This movie was supposed to kickstart Rodman's movie career and after it bombed, Rodman made another action movie, ''Simon Sez'', produced by Ringo Lam. That movie was an even bigger flop and would be perfect for a future RedEye Review. ''Simon Sez'' makes this one here, look like Shakespear by comparison! -Dennis Rodman is not the only athlete in the movie, because JCVD was in fact, a high-level competitive Karateka in this youth. He competed with the national Karate team of Belgium, in semi-contact or ''point fighting'' tournaments and later even in full-contact Kickboxing matches. You can find his fight records online, he wasn't a champion or anything but had a pretty decent fight record.

I 100% was looking at the corner of my monitor when you came in with the "You're all trying very hard not to look at it... but you're looking at" 😂😂😂.

“You walking little nightmare”😂😂😂

Rodman showing excellent trigger discipline at 4:40 lol.

You know...I seen this movie in the 90s and I thought it was 100% awesome When Dennis picked the man up by his head over a car..lolz 100% 🔥 Im Watching it again..right now

Red-eye I love the kinda of movies you cover. I grew up watching them with my dad and staying up late to catch them on TNT, amc and the scifi channel. People tend to assume that they're just dumb but they don't understand how flipping fun they are. Your series on segal was AHMAZING BY THE WAY!

"hey, scuba Steve" LMFAO hahahaha "Did you bring the bag with you to clean the ocean, ether way your dead now". Lmao hahahaha 😆🤣

When I I was a kid I loved this movie I am glad you covered it in ur reviews

You got me with the P90 pray and spray. I was one of those who cried about people using that gun having no skill back in the day.

Very funny video. I remember my friend hated this movie so much he would hide it inside video stores so people couldn’t rent it and watch it haha

You gotta admit, a movie called "Double Team" with Dennis Rodman sounds super close to being a porno in this day in age. Also, Mickey Rourke has abs for days in this movie.

I love how this film just turns into The Prisoner for a while because why not? and who can forget the final fight? This film is gloriously over the top stupid. So what's next? Simon Sez also starring Rodman?

I remember watching this when it came out in the theater with my friend David. It was ridiculous then and it still is now....

JCVD surprise sexing that tub was genius cinema 😂. Thank you Red for reviewing one of my all time favorite guilty pleasure movies

I laughed unreasonably hard at "boom bird dick point". Don't even know why. That shit got me.

Went Cinema in March 98 to see this Crazy film. Absolutely Loved it. Id waited a full year to see it as it was released in the USA in 1997, it was promoted on WCW Nitro when Dennis Rodman joined the NWO. Funnily eniugh I watched this on the Friday night 2 days before Wrestlemania 14.

"I may not know guns but I know my avian genitalia"....the hits keep coming!!!! hahahahah

8:35 -9:15 ....Funniest sequence in ANY Red Eye Review video...ever 🤣 No, really. I am literally on the floor in tears over here

This one is definetely a guilty pleasure for me hahaha. Even though all the things u point out are laughable and stupid, i still love it haha! Again, FANTASTIC work there buddy! I love your work!

So this is the first time JVCD stole plutonium. Years later he'd do it again in The Expendables 2.

I liked this movie when it came out and I still like it. The Van Damme/Rodman/Rourke connection was amazing.

LOL, the part where Jean Claude is stretching....I looked away because it was RIGHT THERE, had to laugh and look back because of your commentary. I also love the part where it looks like Jean Claude and Dennis Rodman are trying to be inconspicuous. WTF? Dennis Rodman is 6'-7, and Jean Claude is 5'-10. Dennis Rodman also is full of tattoos and had dyed hair. No way on this planet would that duo ever be inconspicuous. I'm actually disappointed that you didn't catch that one. J/K Great review. Man, I hope Steven Seagal never dies. As bad as this JCVD movie is, it's nowhere near as bad as Seagal's work on anything, and your voice over of Seagal cracks me up every time.

I saw this in the theater when it came out i was already smoking pot at the time so i had so much fun watching this,and there is a spin off film with the cyber monks and RODMAN,love this film great review

Director Tsui Hark directs and produces some solid Hong Kong action flicks. He was trying to get some of that American Movie Cash. His next Van Damme film, Knock Off, is also spectacularly incoherent and has Rob Schneider. This film had the resources and cast (other than Rodman who was trying but cannot act), but I've heard the language barrier on set made it difficult for anyone to know what they were making. "Can anybody explain that angle?" Coke is it! Coke Saves! Given the number of Coke product placements, YOU may have to list this as a sponsored video. Also, don't forget to wear your Omega watch! Everybody Rodman fights with gets pulled around by wires any time Rodman looks at them. Sometimes the stunt doubles move so unnaturally compared to what Rodman does they look like dummies. The breaking glass is a big Hong Kong thing. They must have the world's greatest breakaway glass industry. If you really need some broken glass AND fighting around babies, John Woo's Hard Boiled. I cannot recommend that enough.

Yes! "Man is strong, but the Tiger is stronger." Can't wait for Simon Sez!

I absolutely enjoyed this film. 100%.

"The strong and irresistible flavor of Coca-Cola is going to protect us." Best RedEye review line yet. Also, the film's climax deserves the Stephon from SNL treatment: "This final battle has everything: Land mines, crosses, a green-haired Dennis Rodman, henchmen, a baby, The Roman Coliseum, John Claude Van Damme, John Claude Van Damme's stunt double, Mickey Rourke with abs but no sideburns, explosions, Coca-Cola machines on fire, and - of course - a tiger!

Dude I came across your channel a few weeks ago and omg it has been a blessing !! Funniest and best movie reviews! This one is easily a top 5 one for me so far 😂😂 well Done

Always feel like drinking a certain brand of soft drink whenever I watch this, can’t imagine why...

I was such a Dennis Rodman and JCVD mark that I had to go the theater and watched it and I loved it. I still do.

Dennis Rodman is a weird dude, but he could ball with the best of them. Remember. He's in the Basketball Hall of Fame with Michael Jordan. And the P90? I own the civilian version of it. Its awesome. Oh. Romans used lead as a sweetener in their wine. They got it by boiling grape juice in leaded vessels. So. They actually did like fizzy sugar drinks.

Double Team, the only movie set where Van Damme was responsible for only 33% of the total cocaine usage.

Holy crap! I forgot this movie existed.

Glass divider broke before his foot even connected 😆

oh my gosh. that bath tube scene had me dying!!!!

I was totally looking at it, I regret nothing!

I love how in this movie, Jean-Claude Van Damme is the good guy trying to stop the bad guys from stealing plutonium (at least at the beginning), and then years later, he was in “The Expendables 2,” where HE was the bad guy trying to steal plutonium. It’s funny how that happened.

I just watched this movie for the first time this weekend and was super happy to see a review from this week on it. Fun

Okay, can we take a moment to acknowledge the fact that just because you dive roll across a table that won't save you from an explosion, because, like, overpressure is a thing. Also why don't they just get a sniper? One shot, one kill, hero doesn't even see it coming. Or you have a proximity sensor on the blanket so that when you touch it, it detonates. I would be so much better at killing heroes in movies than any villain ever. I mean you say describing it to a friend but could you imagine being the person who had to pitch the script?

Yes! New Redeye/Van Damme Goodness!! Wow, remember those days when Dennis Rodman really wanted to be a "thing", and TV wanted him to be a "thing", and Howard Stern wanted him to be a "thing"... and then finally everyone realized he is not engaging or entertaining?..... lol. Ahhhh... the 90s......

That basketball parachute scene is, hands down, one of the stupedist moments in film. Ever. Tsui Hark must've been high.

My new favorite channel 😂😂😂😂

I love this movie! So good!!! So Van Damme-riffic!

I'm sorry but this movie will always a great guilty pleasure of mine. A so bad it's good, Van Damme classic. Ridiculously over the top, Hong Kong style action, lathered in mid-late 90s cheese. What's a 90s kid not to like about that?

I'm rewatching some of Redeye's older videos and this one just stands out as one of the funniest! It may be the worse the movie, the more entertaining Redeye's take on it.

Clearly this channel should be everyone's first stop for bird genitalia facts.

This movie needs a sequel.

Damn dude bird dick points caught me off guard. I had some weird barking laugh in the store. People think I'm some weirdo that finds cat food hilarious, so thanks for that lol. Great review I've been waiting for this one thanks, you're the best man.

Van Damme side kicking the tiger made my plums tingle

This was when Dennis Rodman was doing everything he could in the entertainment business, including joining the NWO in WCW. 🤣😂 I love him for it cuz he is definitely hella entertaining 🤣🤣🤣😂

You need to do JCVDs short lived series... That was pure gold.

8:41 -so funny. “You’re looking at it”… 😁

This movie is my guilty pleasure

I don’t give a fuck what anyone says I love Dennis Rodman then and I still love him.When this movie came out back in 97 he was like a god to me

At 2:24 when that truck started to jump the train I legit thought the sound it made was the start of the Duke Boy’s “yeeee hew!” Lol

crying with laughter. "Dennis 'I will kick you in the face while playing basketball' Rodman"

This channel might as well be called “my childhood”

Ever since the first time I saw this movie, I've always wanted to die stepping on a land mine while fighting a tiger in the colosseum. Been my terminal illness plan for about 20 years now. Still kicking

4:00 Mickey Rourke wearing shades walking away from an explosion is so quintessentially '90s. 8:40 is even worse than the walking-upstairs-on-your-hands scene in Gymkata. Oh wow, the spy island bad guy is Paul Freeman (Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark) - he always seems to be a good sport about being in some less-great roles, but even he looks pained here. Have Mickey Rourke and Gary Busey ever been in the same movie? I think that needs to happen!

when i was a kid i loved this movie

Back in late 90s I rent this DVD just for Dennis.

Sir that is just a headset with more steps. Awesome

With that trigger discipline at 4:45 Rodman for sure is into pray n spray aswell 🤣

I had the unfortunate/fortunate luck of working in a theater during the 90's. We had some good movies, but then there were the Seagal/Van Damme movies. They did okay, but did not last long.

JCVD IS THE BEST ACTION MOVIE HERO 👊👊

10:55 "NOW THATS WHAT I CALL HANGTIME " A basketball Joke ! :)

The golden age of cinema..where u just needed a few big names and a sick movie poster

Just found this channel. Holy crap. Absolutely amazing. I've been going through your Karate series and got to the episode where you were hyped on 500 or 1,000 subs. The quality of your videos, I assumed you were in the millions. Keep up the great work.

Red eye reviews, you never miss a beat with these comedic reviews. Keep up the great work.

It is a great day when Redeye has a new review!!!

Holy crap I forgot about this movie!!!! Redeye you RULE!

I know this movie is so bad, but I actually loved it growing up :) You gotta admit the sheer fun of the action and Rodman he's got some comedy timing working for him

"Everybody's favorite hair color, Rodman." Ha

I loved the movie. Underrated too!

Yay! Another JCVD review.

this movie is among my all time favorites. 2:13 ECSPAPES is so endearing.

That Time when Iván Ooze mentored Van Damme... Yeah, that actor played Iván Ooze from the MMPR movie.

I like how someone watched this movie and said we need to put rodman in Tekken. And thus we got raven.

Random thoughts while I'm watching the review: I remember when it came out and I was 11 yrs old. I was really hyped, cause I liked Van Damme, he was quite popular in my country and many family members liked him (I still remember when my uncle showed me Black Eagle on VHS like it was the greatest thing ever; I have no idea how old I was then though). It's a shame that Tsui Hark had to do this. I really like his movies (though mostly before he did Double Team, his Once Upon a Time in China films [parts 1 & 2 especially] made me interested in kung fu movies). Hummingbirds don't have ***** cause she shot them all, duh. This retiremenent island for spies: when I rewatched the movie few yrs ago I was pretty sure that it was inspired by the 1967 TV show The Prisoner. Which is a really, really awesome show, one of my favs. Fight in the coloseum could be a nod to the cult fight from The Way of the Dragon. And maybe the fight in the hospital was inspired by the Hard Boiled?

Can we hit up JCVD now and see if he will be in the saspatch movie now? That sounds awesome. You know he does the splits and punches that squatch in the nuts!

Again, another one of your videos brings a smile to my face:)

Oh Double Team with Van Damme! I was thinking of a totally differen movie.

I keep telling ppl Dennis Rodman is a fuckin action hero. My mom had his lil collection of movies on vhs back in the day. Bro been a legend.

Yes! Knock Off soon please!

To quote the Nostalgia Critic, " They fried the Coke! "

Hope the week is going well for you too RedEye👌😌

This movie is CJVD's hudson hawk, it's confusing as hell and absolutely ridiculous. but still has some good moments

Yeeeeeeeeees! You legend can't wait to see this.

I watch this when I was 8 or 9 years old, cuz of rodman and jcwd, I love basketball and action movies, but now this movie is lot more funnier then those days, hahaha excellent review.

9:03 the mirror shows the slack in the line lol

I have remembered the island escaping scene and the tigers and mines in the Colosseum scene, but never realized they are in the same movie. And did you notice the small and very hided product placement of a not-well known soda manufacturer named emmmm, something Cola. No? Me neither. :D

It's funny how the Rome Colosseum which is huge becomes the Arles bullring, which is tiny in comparison.

The basketball puns. Good Lord