The Last Mercenary, 2021. Directed by David Charhon. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Valérie Kaprisky, Miou-Miou, Eric Judor, Alban Ivanov, Assa Sylla, Patrick Timsit, Zakhar Shadrin, Samir Decazza, Michel Crémadès, Djimo, Mike Gassaway, Aleksey Gorbunov, and Nassim Lyes. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious former secret service agent must urgently return to France when his estranged son is falsely […]
Can The Last Mercenary kick off a renaissance for Jean-Claude Van Damme?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the upcoming Jean-Claude Van Damme Netflix vehicle, The Last Mercenary. Can we call it a comeback? In 2008, Jean-Claude Van Damme was some years deep into straight to DVD land, where mainstream interest has all but gone, leaving only the aficionados behind. For a number of years after his last theatrically […]
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in trailer for Netflix action comedy The Last Mercenary
Netflix has released a trailer, poster and images for director David Charhon’s action comedy The Last Mercenary which stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as a former secret service agent who returns to France when his estranged son is framed by an international terrorist organization; check them out here… Richard Brumère, aka “La Brume” (“The Mist”), a […]
PCS Collectibles unveils Jean-Claude Van Damme tribute statues
Sideshow and PCS Collectibles are paying homage to the Muscles From Brussels with two brand new, highly-detailed 1:3 scale Jean-Claude Van Damme tribute statues, available in both Shotokan and Muay Thai variants. The statues, which are available to pre-o The JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme): Shotokan 1:3 Scale Tribute Statue measures 22.5” tall and 19.5” wide […]
In the Big House with Jean-Claude Van Damme
Tom Jolliffe visits Van Damme in the joint with Death Warrant and In Hell… The muscles from Brussels, Mr Jean-Claude Van Damme has travelled through time, cheated death and been reanimated, fought in underground fighting tournaments, been a legionnaire (twice), and he’s even got caught up playing himself in a botched post office heist (JCVD) […]
Jean-Claude Van Damme at 60
As Jean-Claude Van Damme celebrates a milestone birthday, Tom Jolliffe looks back at a career that has seen box office success, and flirtation with a comeback as a critically acclaimed actor… If you even have a passing appreciation of late 20th century action cinema, you’ll know very well who Jean-Claude Van Damme is. You’ll probably […]
Enter The Muscles from Brussels: The Jean-Claude Van Damme Tournament Fight Film
Tom Jolliffe looks at Jean-Claude Van Damme’s history of tournament fight films… If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For a while in the earlier career of Jean-Claude Van Damme, that seemed to be more or less the case. When Enter the Dragon ended up as a cultural and cinematic phenomenon, a host of imitators […]
Die Hard with Stallone, Seagal and Van Damme
Tom Jolliffe ventures back to the 90’s, when three action icons made Die Hard riffs… It’s often said that the buff action specialists of the 80’s, who were larger than life and almost comically unstoppable were slowly pushed out of the forefront of the market by more every man heroes. Die Hard is often pinpointed […]
A Look Back at The Expendables Franchise (And a Look Forward…)
Ten years on from the release of the first movie, Tom Jolliffe looks back at the Expendables franchise and then looks at where it can go now (and who needs to join the crew)… When The Expendables was first announced in late 2009, my excitement levels went through the roof. Initially it was Sylvester Stallone, […]
Netflix begins shooting Jean-Claude Van Damme action comedy The Last Mercenary
The Muscles from Brussels is heading to Netflix, with the streaming service announcing that filming is now underway on The Last Mercenary, an action-comedy headlined by Jean-Claude Van Damme. Directed by David Charhon (The Other Side Of The Tracks), the film will see Van Damme playing “a mysterious former secret service agent who must urgently […]
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