Product: Legionnaire [VHS]
Rating: 1.0
One of the worst movies in the history of filmmaking
It is hard to describe why legionaire is as horrible as it is. A frightfully awesome mix of unrealistic fight scenes, tragically overdramatic acting, and a plot that is just undescribebly pointless.Van Damme's acting is way overdramatic to the point of being laughable. His crying fit after some guy he barely knew died were punctuated by "HE WAS A LEGIONAIRE" in his cheesy french accent.One of the villians in the pointless plot is apparently a cruel officer in this legion. Apparently, this guy likes to torture his men and leave them to die. He also likes to punish them for making the RIGHT decesions, while he makes horrible blunders left and right. What I don't understand is why this person dissapears into thin air soon after we learn about his character. I mean, this plot is just horrible. Lets go on to a better example.Another of Van Dammes buddies is sent out for some ungodly stupid mission, that we all know will fail no matter what. Van Damme and this character open up a stupid, overdramatic scene about how they love eachother or something, and this guy goes off on his way. Well not really, since he is shown being tortured by the rifs the next day, and for some reason Van Damme shoots him. Of course the movie wanted it to be clear that Van Damme puts him out of his misery, but it was just such a idiotic situation where Van Damme could have attempted to save him based on his superhuman marsmanship and physical strength as portrayed in this movie.One final thing, Can someone explain to me how a human being can shoot a gatling gun with great accuracy while standing up and holding it, not to mention this person has apparently just suffered a long march through the desert.I really can't continue, as I will have flashbacks of this movie and will be disgusted to the point of nausea.One look at the damn DVD cover and you can see what a cheesy, overdramatic, "epic" with a pointless plot this movie is.Van Damme should stick to what he does best, fake being a martial artist..