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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :-
Superb action, 31 July 2000
Author: action-6 from Froland, Norway

Double Impact is one of Van Damme`s finest moments on the actionfilm-arena. It delivers what it must to succeed, namely tons of great fighting scenes, which is what Van Damme-movies are all about(well, almost). If you want to rent an old action-flick, Double Impact is one of the best movies Van Damme has ever done! 9/10

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16 out of 20 people found the following comment useful :-
Great Jean Claude Van Damme Film!, 13 March 2004

Author: whpratt1 from United States

Every time I view this film, I enjoy the great photography of Honk Kong, the beauty of the country, excitement of the night lights and the forbidden areas of the dark back streets and its perils! Claude Van Damme (Alex Wagner) gave the audience a double take every time he made a fantastic martial arts endeavor. His great supporting actor was the veteran actor, Geoffry Lewis, (Frank Avery),"Mind Games",'03, whose main goal was to protect the twin boys who were almost killed as infants and see that they obtained the wealth that belonged to the both of them. The gals in the picture add some hot steamy scenes, especially in the Boiler Room! If you are not a Jean Claude Van Damme fan or do not like the great acting of Geoffrey Lewis, this is not the film for you. You will probably like the "Terminator Films"!

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15 out of 19 people found the following comment useful :-
The Best Van Damme Movie ever!, 12 June 2006

Author: Liakot Ali from London

Double Impact is simply the Best Van Damme movie of his career. Van Damme hasn't been making much great movies recently. I remember in my school days, Van Damme was one of the favourites among the lads. Van Damme has given us Great movies in the past. Kickboxer, Bloodsport and Hard Target are some of His Finest Movies. I'm my opinion, Double Impact is better then the mentioned movies in terms of Storyline. Double Impact has great fight scenes including Van Damme against Bolo Yeung, also in Bloodsport. It has Plenty of violence, packed with good laughs. This was Van Dammes opportunity to act apart from fighting all the time. Van Damme does a decent job playing two separate characters Alex and Chad. It has a impressive storyline about 2 twin brothers separated at birth, who link up when their older, to take revenge on the Gang that killed their parents. This is a great entertaining movie.

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Double the trouble with Van Dammage, 14 April 2002
Author: abentenjo from Swindon, UK

Egos run wild as Van Dammage is given the double dosage in this rampant, enjoyable thriller; hampered somewhat by the now two dreadful acting displays instead of the one. Yet credit where its due, this is one of his better outings, broadening his thespian ranges as well as stylishly kicking people in the head a lot. Revenge is on the cards again, playing both twin brothers separated at birth and reunited 25 years later (one's a US aerobics instructor who wears the silk underwear, the other a tough cigar-chomping gangster-type raised in the Hong Kong). Their parents, you see, were hopelessly slaughtered when they were babies, and summarily they vow vengeance. It's all laughable enough, as it should be: violent as hell with a Bolo villain and two Jean-Claude's causing complete bloody chaos - who could ask for more?

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9 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Good Van Damme Film, 4 September 2006

Author: The_Hamster_Factor from United Kingdom

Hearing Van Damme try to do a mixture of French and Hong Kong accents is funny, it's even funnier when that character can out-act the other character also played by Van Damme. 'Double Impact' is a good Van Damme film, going thematic points, not bad acting, good action sequences, good pacing, and Bolo Yeung. Is it the best Van Damme film? No, and let me tell you why: Whilst there are many positive things about this film, there are a lot of problems with the effects. I do not doubt Bolo Yeung's strength but when he lifts those barrels, you can clearly see that they're made of foam, and whenever Chad and Alex are together, you can either see through one of them, or the matte-lines are just too obvious. In this day and age, all of these things would be unrecognisable if you were to put the same actor together with himself on screen, and the use of technology is very dated. It kind of reminds me of 'Return of the Jedi' whenever Luke is fighting the Rankor underneath Jabba's Palace, you can see that Mark Hamill is staring at a blue screen right in front of him. Another problem I find in this film, as with many of Van Damme's films, is the exposition as to why he speaks with a foreign accent (ie. "You weren't born in France, I just raised you there"). The third problem I find, again, as with most Van Damme films is seeing his butt. Another error I find is the idea that Alex would head-butt his identical twin brother who he has never seen before in 25 or so years before ever getting to know him. It just doesn't make sense, I mean, if you didn't know that you had a brother, and then you suddenly saw him for the first time in over 25 years, you wouldn't go right up to him and head-butt him in the face, you'd ask questions, you would be in shock.

Those errors noted, I really do like this film because it manages to keep the story in check at all times, the pacing is very good, and it never gets too bogged down in back-story or exposition, and it flows quite evenly. The second thing I like about this film are the action sequences, which, to be honest, are few and far between with the exception of the opening sequence and the end sequence (which reminded me of Lethal Weapon 2). I was always used to seeing Van Damme just get into fights for absolutely no reason (Death Warrant), so this change of pace was new and quite welcome. The story is also quite well told and was an opening to the new generation of Van Damme fans who wanted to see him act as well as fight, something he would do a lot more often in a film like 'In Hell', in particular.

Corey Eversen - What a fox! If there was one girl I would not like to meet in a dark alley, that would be her, but at the same time, I think I would like to meet her in a dark alley. Call me weird but being dominated by somebody like Cory Eversen (and I know she would dominate me) would be an absolute dream. I can safely say that, for once in my life, I would not know what to do with somebody like her. In this film, she plays a femme-fatale, a psychopathic hit-man (erm... hit-woman) who works for the bad guys. She is certainly no match for the sheer brutality of Bolo Yeung, but what she lacks in the brutality department is compensated quite easily in the looks department. The thing is, as I am writing this, she is nearly 50 years of age, so she is almost as old as my mother, which would be quite weird. But if I were the same age as I am now in 1991 whenever this film was released, she would be more than welcome at a family barbecue.

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Classic Van Dammage!!, 13 May 2003
Author: Thomas Jolliffe (supertom-3) from Marlow, England

This is joyously over the top and inane. This is classic Van Damme at his absolute best. In yet another (well in fact the first) of his duel role films, Jean Claude plays two twins separated at birth. They were separated when both their parents were killed by vicious gangsters, including the legend Bolo Yeung (Enter the Dragon).

What makes this film is the always-enjoyable combination of Van Damme and director Sheldon Lettich. Lettich knows how to get the best out of Claude in the fights sequences, with a liberal and entertainingly cheesy use of slo-mo while Van Damme grunts and poses and jumps kicks his way through countless foes. The fights are so entertaining, and they more than make up for the wooden or ham-fisted acting of the cast, not to mention the brainless plot and cheesy dialogue.

This was written by Van Damme and really seems at times like an ego trip, with some of the lines and actions that characters have. It is entertaining in that sense. What is also funny about this film is the constant posing and muscle flexing from Van Damme. This is one of his most enjoyable films, because it is so fun, it brings back the fun feeling from his earlier film Kickboxer.

Overall this is one to watch and the fight between Van Damme and Bolo is the stuff of legend. ***

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Little support, but fun to watch, 27 March 2007

Author: lastliberal from Florida

OK, face it, Jean-Claude cannot act his way out of a wet paper bag. That is not why we watch him. We watch for the action, and this film has plenty of that.

No viewing of Jean-Claude's films would be complete without this one where he plays both himself and his brother. Separated by 25 years, one (Alex) stays in Hong Kong as a smugger, and the other (Chad) is a fitness instructor in California. That's ladies fitness instructor in pretty blue tights. Hmm, is there something to his role as "Gay Karate Man" in his first film? California Jean-Claude returns to Hong Kong to join Honk Kond Jean Claude to regain what is rightfully theirs. Luscious scenery provided by Alex's girlfriend Danielle (Alonna Shaw). Hot breathing brought on by action between Danielle and Kara (Corinna Everson). The return of Bolo Yeung (Bloodsport) as Moon is a big big plus for the film.

Lots of action, lots of laughs, and a good time for all.

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What a classic of B-movie cheese this is, 25 January 2007

Author: Don Bendell from Germany

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"What a classic of B-movie cheese this is. In the first of Van Damme's trilogy of twin movies (at least until he decides to use the idea yet again), our boy Jean-Claude plays brothers who are separated when a Triad hit team takes out their parents. Twenty years later, the "bad" brother is a smuggler in HK, while the "good" one is an aerobics instructor in Los Angeles, and they team up to take revenge on the boss (Philip Chan) who took out their parents.

There's nothing really great about Double Impact, other than the immortal tagline of "double the Van Damme, double the Van Damage", but it is a solid low-budget actioner. The script and acting are average to say the least, and the movie looks like it was made for fifty cents and a case of returnable bottles, but when it comes to action, Double Impact delivers the goods. The fights are among some of Van Damme's best, with good choreography and tight filming and editing. Also of note are the gunfights; I might be wrong, but I believe that this was the first Western movie to have John Woo-style dual 9mms (complete with slow motion). If you have a high tolerance for cheeseball antics (or just like to make fun of them), there's some good times to be had with Double Impact. I'm kind of sorry to say this, but given the current anemic state of action films, even middling stuff like this is much better than the crap that has been getting cranked out lately."

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kungfu twins, 19 July 2001
Author: Cenk (jank123@mailcity.com) from berlin

The movie is about two different brothers (twins) who were seperated at birth when their parents were killed. After years they meet themselves in Hong Kong. And they fight together against the mafia. The movie is TOO absurd but surprisingly its very entertaining. The fighting scenes are great. Jean Claude plays as chad and alex in double role. Thats perhaps the most interesting part of the movie.

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Van Damme at his best, 1 June 2007

Author: Nelson Villegas from Puerto Rico

Double Impact could be one of Van Damme's best flicks. It contains action, humor, and great martial arts. This movie came out when I was in eighth grade, and it definitely brings good memories. Every one was talking about it when it came out. It begins when a British businessman and his wife are murdered by the mafia; the two twins are rescued by Frank Avery (played by Geoffrey Lewis) who was the family's bodyguard. Then the twins get separated, one is taken by Frank, the other ends up in an orphanage. 25 years later Frank decided to tell Chad (played by Van Damme) all about his parent's death, and that he must go back to Hong Kong to find the killers. Chad meets with his twin brother Alex (played also by Van Damme). One of the things that I love about this movie is that Chad and Alex have totally different personalities; Chad is more like a fly boy, and Alex is a street smart smuggler. The twins are always having disagreements, and there's even a fight scene between Chad and Alex, it was great. Also Bolo Yeung who's one of the villains of the movie, he incarnates, Moon the right hand of Nigel Griffith played by Alan Scarfe. The film is very entertaining, packed with great martial arts action. So on a weekend, buy a pizza, some beers, and invite some of your old high school friends, and enjoy this movie.

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