An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist. Double Team is another very good and action packed Van Damme Adventure and definitely one that isn't as bad as reviews might wanna make you think. Yes Van Damme does fight a Tiger but what did you expect? The Godfather of action movies? No this is a pretty action packed thriller that throws things on screen and for the biggest part it works just fine plus Mickey Rourke makes for a very good and compelling villain. (9/10)

With most of Van Damme's films, you know what you're going to get. Action, fights, a bare minimum of plot. The same can be said of this film, but it actually rises above being just another Van Damme vehicle and becomes something quite extraordinary, thanks to the work of Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, famed for his stylistic films such as A Chinese GHOST STORY. Hark brings a sense of unreality and circus to the film, as scene after scene is full of people shooting, shouting and punching each other.There's just so much going on all the time, this film leaves you feeling tired, drained, and maybe a little bit confused. The plot twists and turns into new directions every ten minutes; it starts off like FACE/OFF, then it turns into THE PRISONER, then it looks like MAXIMUM RISK, and finally it turns into sheer comedy with the climax taking place at the Colosseum. The film is full of over-emphasis, with small weaponry making machine gun noises, villains flying through the air, and Van Damme doing his usual stunt work. The case with this film is that there are some good scenes linked by much boring, listless exposition. Take, for instance, the hotel room scene where Van Damme is attacked by a ninja warrior who uses a switchblade between his toes. The scene is classic, breathtaking in fact, but as soon as the action dies down we're left in muddled territory, dragged sluggishly down by the bad acting on display here from the three main stars.Van Damme is his usual wooden self, and we don't expect anything else from him by now. Yes, he can fight, but no, he cannot act. Dennis Rodman, a tall basketball star with bright green hair, is good for a laugh, but as soon as the novelty wears off you soon see straight through the image and that he is, in fact, being himself, and not really acting at all. Mickey Rourke is suitably beefed-up in his role as the arch nemesis. He looks the part, and is in fact one of Van Damme's worthier opponents, here's a guy who has a real motive and who looks pretty damn tough as well.Much of the fun comes from watching various villains being kicked, shot and thrown through windows (courtesy of Rodman, who treats his opponents as if they're mere basketballs!). The dynamite level is high for this film, as just about everything explodes, and the whole thing is about sheer spectacle. It's decidedly offbeat too. For instance, where else would you see a colony of cyber monks, surfing the net in their rundown monastery? Or witness a climax where Van Damme kickboxes a tiger, while Rodman drives a moped through a minefield while carrying a baby along in a basket, while Rourke runs around half-naked and watches? It's wacky, certainly, and that's why I enjoyed it. Don't expect anything amazing (let's face it, if you've seen Van Damme's other work, then you'll know what you're getting), but this entry is different enough to work.

If they made a sequel to Double Team, would that be four teams or three? Is math supposed to be used that way? If they made a prequel would that be one team, or no team at all? Why does Double Team make me sad? Am I sad because of Jean Claude Van Damme? Am I sad because of Dennis Rodman or Mickey Rourke? Am I sad because of the other actors who must appear in this movie? I don't know. This is one of those kinds of movies that makes you think, makes you think why, like why make this piece of sh*t movie or it makes you think how, like how can such a piece of sh*t movie get made so easily while other movies that aren't related to human excrement have such a hard time being made. Yes, questions drive us forward towards truth.

Look before i start my review lets be honest about this movie, the movie is dumb and really does not make sense really a movie with Van Damme and Dennis Rodman really what do you expect. But lets also be clear this movie could be a lot of fun viewed in the right light and could almost be considered a really fun piece of garbage. Van Damme starts as a agent who is after Mickey Rourke (really Mickey really) while after Mickey, Mickey wife and child gets killed and now Mickey is really bad and spends the whole film trying to kill Van Damme. Van Damme needs help and so he enlist the help of Dennis Rodman(what did the Chicago Bulls cut him from the roster) who is a gun dealer. Well that is all the plot you really need, I mean what i just described could be action gold, not really i mean there is a lot of plot holes and a lot of scenes that just don't make sense. And now i come to the great director Tsui Hark ( i know if you just seen this film and his other movie starting Van Damme Knock Off you could be asking yourself "great director my ---") the director who gave us Once upon a time in china 1,2,3,4,5 and Pecking Opera Blues and other great hong kong movies. But this movie is not even in the same area code to these great movies but he does direct the film for all he's worth and does keep the movie flowing at a great pace and does give us a lot of action and Tsui at least make Van Damme look good as he enlist the great Sammo Hung to do the fights(lets be clear that the stuntman does most of the action for Van Damme) and Tsui Hark even got the great Peter Pau to shoot the film. Yes Peter Pau who went on to win a Oscar a couple years later for shooting Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In the end all i could say is that you could find worse movies starting Van Damme (there is too many to count) and you could find better like Hard Target,Timecop,or maybe Sudden Death. Double Team get a C+. So there Thank You.