Concentrated load - double impact

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Movie
German title Concentrated load - double impact
Original title Double impact
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Sheldon Lettich
script Sheldon Lettich
Jean-Claude Van Damme
production Ashok Amritraj ,
Paul Michael Glaser
Rick Bieber
Jean-Claude Van Damme
music Arthur Kempel
camera Richard H. Kline
cut Mark Conte
occupation

Double Impact - Double Impact is an American action film from 1991 with Jean-Claude Van Damme .

action

Chad and Alex's parents are killed by a criminal organization hired by Griffith. The bodyguard Frank still manages to save the two babies Chad and Alex. In the heat of the moment, he shoots Moon in the eye and is injured in the arm himself. Ultimately, however, he can get the two out of danger. Alex is abandoned in front of the door of an orphanage in Hong Kong , Chad raises the alleged Uncle Frank personally. One becomes a respected "businessman" in Hong Kong who deals in a wide variety of things that are not always legal, the other a karate trainer and gymnastics teacher in Los Angeles .

After 25 years, Uncle Frank explains to Chad that he has a twin brother and that he is not his uncle at all. When the two brothers reunite after 25 years, they are not completely enthusiastic about each other, as Alex suspects that Danielle, his girlfriend, has had an eye on Chad.

The two decide to avenge the murder of their parents. But they keep getting into quarrel and disagree. It is only when Frank and Danielle are kidnapped by Griffith and Mafia boss Zhang that Alex and Chad can make peace again to free them.

In a tough fight, Chad can defeat the freezing killer Moon and Alex manages to free Frank and his girlfriend Danielle from the clutches of the villains. Despite their fatigue and the injuries Alex and Chad sustained in battle, they can take revenge on crooks Zhang and Griffith.

Trivia

  • It was Jean-Claude van Damme's first double role.
  • Against Bolo Yeung van Damme has been in the movie Bloodsport fought in the final.
  • Jean-Claude van Damme also wrote the script and produced the film.
  • The film grossed $ 30,102,717 at the box office.
  • The German FSK 18 video version from 1992 with the cover note “Uncut Original Version” was defused and indexed by half a minute in a total of 10 scenes. In addition, the picture was darkened. Indexing was lifted in February 2012.
  • The film was released uncut for the first time on DVD in 1999, although the previously shortened scenes were inserted from an English VHS master and therefore of poorer quality. Since 2005 the film has been available on DVD without this loss of quality.

criticism

“Tough, formally surprisingly imaginative action film with tongue-in-cheek irony in the drawing of the unequal twins. The film discredits itself as acceptable entertainment through violence, vigilante justice and sexism, which are depicted without a distance. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Jean-Claude van Damme received a 1992 MTV Movie Awards nomination in the Most Desirable Male category .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for concentrated cargo - Double Impact . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 66 862 V).
  2. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
  3. ↑ The concentrated load is deleted from the index
  4. ↑ Concentrated charge - Double Impact. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used