Reviews by johanlefourbe

For almost 10 years, almost every month, I went to the movie theater with Nick, my step-son. Traditionally, I have always been the one suggesting the movies that we should watch and we would take the final decision together but, for the first time, he made the suggestion and chose this movie. To be honest, I had actually not heard anything about this movie but it made the whole thing even more appealing. Unfortunately, even though I'm a sucker for this genre, it turned out to be a really weak apocalyptic thriller which didn't add anything interesting to the formula. Above all, I thought it was so sad to see Emile Hirsch in such an underwhelming feature. Seriously, what the hell happened to this guy?!? Indeed, 5 years before, he showed up in 'Into the Wild' and, even before this movie, he was easily one of the most promising actors around but, nowadays, I don't hear much from him anymore and, with such disappointing flicks, it won't get better anytime soon. Furthermore, even though Nick was rather fascinated by the aliens and their 'electric' behaviour, to be honest, I didn’t think it was anything really interesting. Anyway, to conclude, even though I was seen worse movies,  it was still a weak and boring SF flick and it is not really worth a look.

Back in the 90's, I actually watched the first Street Fighter flick in the movie theater when it was released and it immediatly became one of the worst movies I had ever seen. So, almost 20 years later, it was actually pretty neat watch another Street Fighter flick and guess what? It was pretty bad as well... I mean, I have to admit that it was not as bad as the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle but it was still pretty horrendous. The story was slightly better and it was a good idea to focus on one of the characters but there were so many stupid and dreadfull things... For example, why on Earth Bison gave his 'good' conscience to his daughter?!? Since when the bad guys need to get rid off of their conscience?!? Some of the fight sequences were watchable but some were just pathetic and ridiculous. The acting was pretty average, especially Chris Klein. I mean, he has never impressed me before but what was he thinking?!? Was he on drugs or something?!? He gave easily one of the worst performances I have ever seen on any movie. It was that bad... To conclude, hopefully, third time is the charm because this second Street Fighter movie was pretty bad and it is not worth a look whatsoever.

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Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this movie, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, after making for at least a decade some worthless straight-to-dvd action flicks, Jean-Claude Van Damme finally decided to do something drastically different, a satire about himself and it really worked fine. Basically, it was some kind of remake of 'Dog Day Afternoon' taking place in Belgium and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. To be honest, the whole thing could have been a misfire if the guy took himself too seriously but he didn't, even if he remained maybe a little too calm during the proceedings. The main issue was that even though the concept was good,  after 5 minutes, they didn't really know how to further develop it. Still, it was really sometimes quite hilarious and Van Damme provided a pretty good performance (there was even a six minutes monologue during which he honestly quite blew me away). When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of JCVD and it was quite awesome to finally see him in a decent movie after all these years of crap. To conclude, even though it was nothing really mindblowing, it was still a well made and entertaining satire and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you want to see something different with Van Damme.