Overrated

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

i mean Jackie Chan not Jesus Christ!Indeed, it's a comedy kick movie set in Orient… honestly i am not fond of the action movies from the expandable cast but this one is not that bad! For me, there was 3 great things: 1) entirely shot on location in Hong Kong and that's fantastic for the exotic feeling: the sea, the jungle, the cultures...2) another attempt to do twins with a single one: lately, i keep watching movies using that trick: BTTF, Géaldine, Laurel & Hardy, Noomi, ... Here the result is not that bad, especially coming from JCVD who didn't attend Strasberg courses!3) the hot Alonna Shaw who is the perfect look alike of my famous shrink who crossed my way a long time ago! If i'm honest and remember well, it's this likeness that put me on the trail for this movie but it's another twin story...

Yet another slice of Van Damme craziness, this one glossier and more B-movie-ish than the rest. The sheer unintentional humour value offered up by the fact that Van Damme plays twins make this film unmissable - the split screen work, where Van Damme converses with himself, is a must see. Aside from this unusual aspect, it's business as usual with Van Damme taking on a double quota of blonde bimbos and vicious enemies who die by the bucket load in various violent ways.This film achieves due to some very slick action sequences which don't scrimp on the violence. Baddies are kicked, punched, stabbed, smashed in the face with bottles, shot, burnt, just about every death imaginable. On top of this there are some gratuitous sex scenes, plenty of cheesy dialogue and more ham acting than you can shake a stick at. Van Damme is as wooden as ever, but he's actually not that bad in the dual role and creates a believable rapport between the two brothers - aided, of course, by some nifty special effects. Geoffrey Lewis, father of Juliette, who you may remember from countless westerns and thrillers of years past, enjoys himself as Van Damme's ageing sidekick. The other imposing presence comes from the mighty Bolo Yeung (BLOODSPORT), always a formidable opponent, who has a fantastically brutal fight with Van Damme at the end of the film! I loved this B-movie. Every aspect is enjoyable - dumb, yes, but eminently enjoyable. The showdown gives us a chance to watch the chief baddies die some very unpleasant - and fitting - deaths. This has to be one of my favourite Van Damme films because it achieves what it sets out to do - namely providing lots of hard-hitting action, some goofy plot twists, bad acting, and lots of big explosions. And what more could you possibly want?

The Muscles from Brussels takes a co-producer and co-writer credit on this routinely plotted but agreeable action picture. Van Damme plays twin boys, who were orphaned in the 1960s by thugs representing some greedy white collar criminals. One of them, Chad, ended up in L. A. where he got to live a fairly soft life. Alex, on the other hand, remained in Hong Kong where he became a street smart smuggler. 25 years later, their "uncle" Frank (Geoffrey Lewis) locates Alex and reunites the boys so they can have a classic bit of revenge - and reclaim what's theirs in the bargain.All of the action is watchable if never truly inspired. There's a good deal of hard hitting violence (the naive Chad takes his lumps before the story is over), and plenty of effective squib action - not to mention a hearty helping of explosions. The exotic Hong Kong setting certainly helps a lot, as well. One sequence is particularly striking, and you can see bits of that in the trailer. And there's a fairly satisfying confrontation between Van Damme and martial arts icon Bolo Yeung, who plays Moon, a goon who ends up with a fake eye and a nasty scar due to Franks' intervention back in the 60s.There's a certain degree of entertainment in watching Van Damme play two distinctly different characters. Thanks to some reasonably effective movie trickery - body doubles, special effects, and the like - we get to see the twins interacting regularly. Philip Chan, as crime kingpin Raymond Zhang, and Alan Scarfe, as the nefarious Nigel Griffith, are decent action movie baddies in the classic tradition. Both the blonde Alonna Shaw (as Alex's girlfriend Danielle) and the athletic brunette Corinna Everson (as henchwoman Kara) add much sex appeal. The eternally solid and reliable Lewis is a tremendous asset to the story, lending it an appropriate amount of respectability."Double Impact" may not be memorable in the end, but it sure provides a nice diversion for the better part of two hours.Seven out of 10.

Coming out during the twilight of Jean-Claude Van Damme's career, it was something less than impressive. But a decent time-waster at best and for the price of one we would get two Van Damme's on screen. Twins unknowingly separated, to only meet up again 25 years later. Nice. Where else could we see Van Damme beating himself up, feuding over things and eventually teaming up to kick-ass. And there's a lot ass kicking, as well gun blazing to go with the martial arts. That's John Woo style. Slow motion galore. Bullets. Blood. Bodies piling up. Add plenty of broken bones. And nose bleeds. The action is brutal and high-energy. Van Damme cops a real work out. Where he has a whole bunch of villains (a gleeful Alan Scarfe and spiteful Phillip Chan), their henchman and Triad gangs to get through. He goes up against an old foe; Bolo Yeung (of "Bloodsport" fame) and female athlete / body builder Corinna Everson whose choice of fashion is almost upstaged by Van Damme himself. Then we got a bodyguard who uses the spurs on his boot to inflict pain. While stuck in the middle of the two Van Dammes is the always enjoyable character actor Geoffrey Lewis and the ravishing blonde Alonna Shaw. The simple plot (which was co-written by Van Damme) is clean-cut by setting up the motivation at the beginning and then the twins unite to seek vengeance on those involved in the murder of their parents. Also for laughs there's numerous mistaken identity scenarios, Van Damme's colourful fashion sense (the lover-boy one) and the macho script likes to have people telling others to virtually get f**k. Set in Hong Kong, director Sheldon Lettich (who directed Van Damme a year earlier in "Lionheart") strikes up some local flavour, amazingly tough action bursts and all at a reliable pace. Bold, but standard Jean-Claude Van Damme 90s action vehicle."When you find them. Bring back their bodies".