Product: Legionnaire [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
VanDamme does right by the genre
I grew up loving movies and books about the Foreign Legion; the misfit recruits, the brutal sergeants, the doomed stand against the odds in a lonely desert fort. So it was with some trepidation that I watched "Legionnaire". I had never previously watched a movie starring Jean-Claude van Damme, and I am no fan of martial arts movies. Would he mess it up with pointless anachronisms, a legionnaire/kick boxer? But I was happily surprised by this movie. All of the basic elements of a good Foreign Legion movie were present and the production values were first rate. The cast was strong, with all of the standard stereotypical misfits becoming Legionnaires with the Legion's "Marche ou creve" spirit. This film is by no means movie as great art, but it's solid, well done and entertaining. Movie as comfort food. I loved it.