Double Impact
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Directed by | Sheldon Lettich |
Written by | Story: Sheldon Lettich Jean-Claude Van Damme Steve Meerson Peter Krikes Screenplay: Sheldon Lettich Jean-Claude Van Damme |
Produced by | Jean-Claude Van Damme Paul Michael Glaser Ashok Amritraj |
Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme Geoffrey Lewis Andy Armstrong |
Cinematography | Richard H. Kline |
Edited by | Mark Conte |
Music by | Arthur Kempel |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures (USA) 20th Century Fox (non-USA) |
Release date | August 9, 1991 |
Running time | 107 min. |
Country | USA |
Language | English |
Budget | $16,000,000 (U. S.) |
Box office | $30,102,717 |
Double Impact is a 1991 American martial arts action film directed by Sheldon Lettich and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme in a dual role.
Synopsis
Van Damme plays Alex and Chad Wagner, twins who are separated as babies when their parents are killed by a crime boss, in a shooting. The parents were followed in a car by a the chinese mafia, and contacted their friend, who comes too late, finding the two parents killed, driving off all but the ringleader of the mob, and one of the two siblings in the car. The other had been carried off by a survivor in the car. Now 25 years later they meet for the first time and join forces to exact revenge on the people who took their parents' lives. They find that their guardian is not their dad, and that they must work together to find Moon, the crime boss, and avenge their parents' death.
Cast
- Jean-Claude Van Damme — Chad Wagner / Alex Wagner
- Geoffrey Lewis — Frank Avery
- Alonna Shaw — Danielle Wilde
- Bolo Yeung — Moon
- Alicia Stevenson — Baby Chad
- Alan Scarfe — Nigel Griffith
- Philip Chan — Raymond Zhang
- Corrina Everson — Kara
- Julie Strain — a student
- Wu Fong Lung — Chinese nurse
Critical and box office reception
Double Impact opened on August 9, 1991 to mixed critical response where most critics cited it as yet another mindless action movie that only had the gimmick of two Jean-Claude Van Dammes. Others gave the film recognition for slick production values.[1]
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