Day 5- Hard Target
Director- John Woo
Year- 1993
What is it about? Acclaimed Hong Kong director John Woo made the transition to Hollywood... and wound up making a Jean Claude Van Damme movie as his first American film.
Why did I watch it? I am a huge fan of John Woo's work in Hong Kong and towards the end of last year I had a mini marathon of watching A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Bullet in the Head and his final movie before he went to the USA the genre-defying Hard Boiled, a movie which I think is the greatest action movie of all time. So I wanted to work my way through his US films next... or the two I have on DVD anyway. I nearly watched Face/Off, but I saw a triple DVD boxset of Van Damme films going cheap in a second hand shop and along with Knock Off and Nowhere to Run was luckily for me (or perhaps unluckily- we'll see how good it is) the final one was Hard Target.
Before we go any further lets get the two main questions out of the way first of all;
1. Yes, this is the film where Van Damme punches a snake.
2. Yes, this is the Van Damme film that stars Wilford "Diabeetus" Brimley.
Hard Target stars the "muscles from Brussels" as Chance Boudreux
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