This past weekend director John Woo sent me a facsimile expressing his concern for his colleague and partner in Movie Making, Sam Rami. As Sam recently has made some recent unfortunate decisions, most memorably directing a stupid art house film about a Superhero by the name of Spiderman. Director Woo understandably being really upset and concerned with Raimi’s recent flops wants to get him back on the fast track of producing and directing action classics. With that being said Mr.Director Woo pleaded with me to blog on one of the best big budget, international mega hits of the 90s to help spark Raimi’s passion for thinking man action flicks that everyone love. I said it would be an honor to blog one of my favorites, the best foreign film shot in the US to date, You guessed it Hard TARGET. The action moves and acting OF JCVD makes Popeye Doyle and The French Connection look like Emilio Esteves from Loaded Weapon.
The location is a corrupt New Orleans and of course the cops are on strike so this wicked cool bad guy with awesome scars, Lance Henricksen and his boys decide to run an illegal hunting circuit where old business entrepreneurs pay big bucks to hunt Vietnam vets. With no police to stop this morbid game of cat and mouse there is only one man who can save New Orleans and the men that fought for our country, a drifter with a cool trench coat and even better hair, the weathered Van Dam proves to be one Hard Target. This film enlisted hundreds of extras just to get kicked in the face by JCVD. The hardcore, raw action and the blazing reality of this 1993 monster has proven to outmatch any movie made in the 2000’s with the exception of Rambo.
Top Highlights(The movie is a Highlight reel so I will just mention the top ones):
Super Slow motion shots of faces getting kicked off, baddest motorcycle trick to date in movie-JCVD riding the motorbike like a surf board head on into a moving truck only to throw a flip, land and blow up the truck with one shot. Exploding houses, buildings, trucks, motorcycles, cars, factories all in single shots. 4 Barrel rolls and 6 perfectly executed front flips mostly emerging from explosions. Best snake scene Ever, after JCVD pretends to kiss the woman on the mouth he actually rescues her from a biting, python he then puts it in a sleeper hold and punches it in the face till it gets knocked out cold and then he bites its tail off which sets a trap for the hunters close on his trail. Man, I told you a thinking man movie!
Overall JCVD uses his unbelievable fighting skills to save New Orleans from turning into a man hunting capital, he protects and rescues the hot Natasha woman, and once and for all proves to be one Hard Target. I hope that works Director Woo, we are long overdo for more films like Hard Target, did I mention Mike Stone is available.
9 out of 10 on Mike Stone Massive Movie Scale!
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