Hard Target

This is a great TV classic that I enjoyed remembering, and I finally found out which movie had that opening scene with the motorcycles. That scene is stuck in my memory from childhood, I just never associated it with JCVD. This is a period when JCVD was still kicking ass, and here, he demonstrates it fully. A great confrontation with Vosloo and Henriksen. (30/08/2016)

Though Hard Target’s screenplay is that of a standard Van Damme B-movie with dumb clichés in places, John Woo works wonders with it. Van Damme’s long hair flies through the air as coolly as he does after crashing his motorcycle into a jeep, Lance Henriksen in a black coat and wielding a stylish shotgun is the most ruthless and arrogant bad guy who loves playing piano, and Yancy Butler is a goddess of wild ONS sex. Van Damme’s best film! (11/04/2002)

It’s still a classic, the kind nobody makes anymore. The action wizard John Woo, Van Damme with a ponytail, an intriguing plot and one of the best and most ruthless villains in history played by the phenomenal Henriksen. What ended up annoying me were Van Damme’s superhuman abilities, which he displays in every action scene, and I also rooted for Henriksen, so I just can't grant the 4th star :-) 65% (05/07/2013)

A typical low-budget action spectacle filmed with the knowledge that the quality of dialogue is the last thing fans care about, and they won't bother questioning the logic of the story either... The script is as thin as concentration camp soup, and Lance Henriksen should settle his scores and limit visits to gambling dens, so he doesn't have to take gigs in these types of B-movies... Overall impression 10%. Fans of action movies can, of course, add a few stars because John Woo is simply good at making these films. (09/08/2008)

The film has a terrible script, poorly written dialogue and not even John Woo’s directing was particularly impressive. All the action scenes were in slow motion, and because there were quite a few, they soon grew tedious. Despite the incredibly slow pace, the director failed to notice many goofs, so for example Lance Henriksen takes off his burning coat in one of the scenes only to have it on again after a few shots. The film is chock-full of such nonsense. He would need to drag a cart with ammunition behind him not to run out of bullets, firing about ten into each enemy. And the jovial uncle.. A really bad film. (19/04/2020)