Great martial arts action, crap plot and music, some terrifying dancing.

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2006)

Somehow, this film ends up being hugely enjoyable, no matter who watches it. There is something for everyone.
If you like martial arts, Jean Claude Van Damme's technique and physique is exceptional; if you like foreign travel, there are plenty of scenes in Thailand; if you like embarrassingly-bad 80s synth-pop, you will cry laughing at the soundtrack; but the stand-out moment in the whole movie has to be the dance scene in the bar. Some issues:
1) what the hell is he wearing?
2) How do you watch this scene without cringing?
JCVD choreographed all the fight scenes, so I guess he must have choreographed the dancing too. Either it's a brilliant piece of acting, or he really does have too high an opinion of his dancing ability! Surely one of the funniest sequences in movie history...