Our story begins in 1966 at the opening of the Victoria Harbour tunnel in Hong Kong. Originally conceived as an adaptation Alexandre Dumas’ The Corsican Brothers, it’s a story about brothers separated at six months old and reuniting at 25 to avenge the murder of their parents. It was worth paying more for this gimmick: Van Damme plays twins. The latter two had been his largest, with budgets of about $6 million each. By this point he had starred in BLOODSPORT, CYBORG, KICKBOXER, LIONHEART and DEATH WARRANT. Case in point: Jean-Claude Van Damme was in the process of rising from the new Cannon Films guy to household name. While the summer was dominated by the expensive studio action spectacles TERMINATOR 2 and POINT BREAK, there were plenty of solid action movies made with a little less money and a different type of star power. “All right, you want some real action, tough guys? Let’s do it.”
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