Double Team (1997)

A counterterrorist agent (Jean Claude Van Damme) on that "one last mission" joins up with a flamboyant, rainbow-haired arms dealer (Dennis Rodman, who else?) in pursuit of a sleazy terrorist. This situation creates a narrative space enclosing gleefully excessive plot excesses (the arrival of an underground order of militaristic monks) and plenty of basketball-related jokes (a free-throw with a human skull). All of this set to a quick-march pace by Hong Action epic actionmaster Tsui Hark.

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Jack Quinn (Van Damme) is een bestrijder van terrorisme. Voor hij op pensioen mag, moet hij een laatste opdracht uitvoeren: Stavros, een gevaarlijk terrorist, uitschakelen. Maar tijdens de missie raakt Quinn bewusteloos door een explosie. Als Quinn wakker wordt blijkt hij in een soort tehuis voor gefaalde terroristenbestrijders te zijn. Terwijl hij daar zit ontdekt dat Stavros achter zijn zwangere vrouw zit. Hij moet zo snel mogelijk ontsnappen uit een supergoed bewaakt eiland waar hij vast zit. Hij kan uiteindlijk ontsnappen en roept de hulp in van Yaz (Rodman) om Stavros te vinden en uit te schakelen. Maar de t...
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Like John Woo and Ringo Lam before him, noted Hong Kong action director Tsui Hark made his American filmmaking debut with a thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. For this film, Hark also had the privilege of guiding basketball star Dennis Rodman through his first dramatic role. American anti-terrorist agent Jack Quinn (Van Damme) has retired from duty, content to stay with his pregnant wife at his seaside hideaway. However, the CIA lure him back into duty for one last mission: wiping out crazed international terrorist Stavros (Mickey Rourke). Quinn flies to Antwerp to ambush Stavros, but his plan fails; Quinn ...
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is captured and imprisoned in "The Colony," a prison camp for spies "too valuable to kill and too dangerous to set free." To further torture Quinn, Stavros kidnaps Quinn's wife; after she gives birth to their son, Stavros keeps him captive, surrounded by land mines and wild animals. Quinn escapes and makes plans to rescue his wife and child, but he can't do it alone, so he seeks the help of Yaz (Rodman), a top-level underground arms merchant with a tendency towards flamboyant body modification. Rodman also appears with R&B vocalist Crystal Waters on the song "Just a Freak" which appears on the film's soundtrack.
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The greatest spies in the world are forced to retreat to the same colony after their covers are blown. When challenged by a terrorist one of the spies must escape the colony.

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