hell. I can even go as far and say that "Maximum Risk is JCVD's best movie ever". this movie was nothing like the traditional stereotypical martial arts movies he makes, it was a realistic action gritty drama, and Van Damme arguably gave his best performance of his career. this movie is such a underrated masterpiece
I didn't know Ringo Lam passed away, that's so sad. But anyways I love JCVD movies directed by Ringo. Because they feel so unique among the rest of JCVD filmography.
Love that movie. It was two of the first movies I ever got on DVD. I remember my father and I going to Costco on my birthday in August of 1998, and he bought me a DVD player, and two movies. Dead Presidents and Maximum Risk. Great action thriller and Natasha Henstridge was smoking hot back then.
This was a film that shoud had much more difussion. I found out about this film some years laters after its release and I loved it. Great chemistry between Jean Claude and Natasha. And the fighting scenes look amazing but at the same time, very real. Ringo Lam was an excellent artist and he was for sure one of the first directors to put JCVD in more dramatic and realistic roles. He really started to improve his dramatic acting with Ringo Lam's films. As always, great video, Viking Samurai!!
I'll tell you van dammes most underrated film by a long shot. Wake Of Death. The storyline is good and van dammes acting is as good as any top Hollywood actors. Have you ever seen anyone cry as convincingly as JC in this?
@@VikingSamurai keep in mind what I said when you do. Hes head and shoulders above alot of top actors in that one. Every emotion he puts across is excellent
"Wake of Death" was the film that brought me back to Van Damme. I have a soft spot for these later films, like "Until Death", "Pound of Flesh" and "The Bouncer". I will say, though, that I have to skip over the power drill scene in "Wake of Death" !!😬
@@debrawagner7591 he blew it with The Expendables. He was offered to be part of the team from the start. But said no because he was making one of his own. One that never saw the light of day. Expendables could have reignited him for a while again. But he did play a good villain in the second one I suppose
I totally agree with the tittle " Maximun Risk Deserves Respect!". This movie its very good, much more serious than it looks, and the cast is impressive ( Natascha Henstridge, Jean- Hugues Anglade...). I love the inicial scene with a very god car chase with lots stunts and after that the history to the twin brother separates on childhood is solid. Unfortunately at time JCVD made some bad choices on the others movies ( Double Team, Knock Off) both working with Tsui Hark and floops on box office around the world. I did not know about Stefanos Miltsakakis death, this guys work with JCVD on others movies before ( Cyborg, Lionheart, The Quest) and always made goons on Hollywood. Once a time a read about him and his martial skills and he training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with Gracie family on EUA. "Maximun Risk" is a very god action movie and one my favorites Van Damme flicks.
I really liked the fight scenes in Maximum Risk. At the time when MMA was not popular in movies, this was as close as it got, incorporating strikes and grappling, especially in a practical way.
Natasha Henstridge was gorgeous and a great match for JCVD, honestly though did that guy turn a script down if it had a twin role!? Sheesh. InHell was the movie that made me watch Van Damme movies again.
One of my all time favourites! Love the soundtrack, especially in the scene where he’s practicing shooting with the glass bottles. Still getting goosebumps after all these years. Cheers!
Ringo Lam truly one of the Elite directors of the Genre. RIP. . I think he brought the best outta Van Damme ''actingwise'', Maximum Risk was defienatley one of JCVDs best interms of plot and performance. Over-all I do prefer Lambs style over Woo's, he has a better balance on tone, pacing, me not the biggest fan of slow mo. IN HELL was underrated. Cant wait for next video.
Ringo brought the best out in Van Damme, love the lift fight! Nothing fancy but brute! Replicant is awesome and shows some of Van Damme best acting.Ringo was going to do Wake of Death with Van Damme at the time was called Til Death but later left due to creative difference. Then I think some of them ideas went into Until Death. Great video bro, big Van Damme fan - Nik
I thought the action was as good as or better than any other Van Damme movies; very realistic. It also had some of the best acting and storylines. When I first saw it (only a few years ago) I couldn't believe I'd never seen it before nor how good it was. I actually think it's in the running for JCVD's best film.
This movie is hard to like, even with Natasha Henstridge as an added incentive. Th issue is that when you watch Van Damme for over a decade - you want to see Van Damme being Van Damme. And here you are deprived of that completely. Add to that very few fight scenes, none of which are memorable, a lack of a central charismatic antagonist, a lack of a final showdown of any kind and a failure to maximize the potential of Stefanos Miltsakakis. Van Damme making "Hard Target" - was a such a tremendous achievement as an action thriller, so that whatever came after - could never approach it. This effect had often happened in many actors' career. After 1993, i was always on the lookout for the next "Hard Target"-level Van Damme smash hit...but sadly, never got it. Worse than that, everything with 2 Van Dammes would inevitably be pitted against "Double Impact", and thus fail even more miserably. Maximum Risk was the film that made my friends and me literally scream: "Van Damme, where are you?!! Come back..." But he never did.
Derailed was also the point where I stopped buying his new release movies. I then got upgraded to a blu-Ray player in 2007 and from then on started buying his back catalogue movies again on the new format.
Maximum Risk is one of my favorite Van Damme movies, which is a tough call because I love all his movies (before he went DTV, and even some of those are decent - certainly better than most of Seagal's DTV fare).
First and for most I love the content on your channel and I'm sorry I never came across your channel before, I'm a huge Van Damme fan when I was a kid I grew up watching his movies having my mom rent them over and over from Blockbuster Videos. Maximum Risk is one of my favorite Van Damme flicks I felt we saw Van Damme in a more serious role the movie itself is 👍
I always had a rough time deciding if I liked Maximum Risk or Hard Target better. It's too bad Van Damme didn't have the same success with his films Double Team and Knock Off w/ Tsui Hark . I got a feeling you'll be talking about those folms next.
Great vid! I had no idea that Tarantino was inspired by Ringo Lam?! Someone told me that Tarantino used to be a video rental store clerk in LA before he became famous? Spent most of his days watching Hong Kong cinema and writing scripts. I like Johnny To also in HK cinema! Throwdown, the Kodokan Judo film is one of my favourites. Looking forward to the next vid! Thanks!
One thing I thought was weird though was that shower room fight scene wearing those small towels 😆 atleast we didn't have to see the Vandamme package like we did 10 years later when the movie Eastern Promises totally ripped off that fight scene and they showed way too much of Viggo Mortensen in that scene. I remember watching that movie thinking Holyshit this movie is great! Then the steam room fight scene my girlfriend and I went in that was awkward 😆 that Monday at work when I talked to my buddies I told them have you ever seen eastern promises? My friend goes steam room fight scene? I went ya man that's where the movie took a weird vibe and just kept going downhill after that. Then he said they ripped off Maximum Risk but added the nudity that wasn't needed at all 😆.
In Maximum Risk had some great Fighters and actors Stefanos Miltsakakis Kamel Krifa and the legendary pro kickboxer Rob the Dutchman Kaman the main villain Zach Grenier did a excellent job and Paul Ben-Victor the corrupt fbi agent was good to great child hood memories
I went to restaurant Stephanos & One Armed Baxter bounced at to meet them. Derailed gave us the 1st Oma Splatta flip to butt face smash vs open guard....yes a guy has really done it since to KO effect, and also Mongolian Butt Drop in Pride.
In hell was a movie that made me rediscover Vandamme at the time I lost some respect for Vandamme after he was going around all high on cocaine and booze picking fights with guys like Chuck Zito and got his ass handed to him. I kind of quit watching his movies because a tru martial Arts student doesnt how around acting like a bully and picking fights. But after Vandamme cleaned up his life and got humbled I started to be a fan again. In He'll was a great movie and Lawrence Taylor really did a great job in that movie. Ringo Lam highly underrated director and I enjoyed that movie more than anything Vandamme had put out in quite some time. Actually you should check out the Movie Legionarre from around 97 or 98 I think but it was a straight to video one but it's a pretty descent movie and had a good story.
@@VikingSamurai I agree man! I remember a friend and I went and rented that movie and we both went, why was this not released in the movies? It's a great underrated movie and I have only seen it a couple times but man it was damn good. I need to go on amazon and see if I can buy it now. 😆
Hard Target was the Shit!! there's a scene at the end where JCVD shoots a bad guy about 13 times & then gives a nice spin-kick to finish him off. Gold!!
@@JoeBuck207 ???? that doesn't track. the scene i'm talking about was in the original home vhs (theatrical) release? You're telling me there's an uncut version of this movie?????
@@mackychloe Two uncut versions of Hard Target, one I had on Vhs it had Chance and Natasha love scene fades to black and the other uncut version is only on Blu Ray, the dvd version is the edited theatrical release. Get the Blu Ray its uncut but the first version is lost just like my Vhs copy.
ringo lam a great action legend just like john woo great action before he came to america just like woo city on fire full contact great movies r.i.p legend van damme also worked with tsui hark in double team and knock off not his best movies but another one of hong kong greats
Slight correction there were three sequels to Species, two with Natasha Species 2 & 3 and the other being Species: The Awakening which was horrible by the way.
His twin brother's voice in the recorder that was in the bank safe cracked me up when you heard it in the trailers. LOL! In the film the voice is some sort of European accent and is rather smooth. The one in the trailer was straight up American rough and macho deep and slightly rumbly. LOL! I remember seeing the trailer just before I went to see the movie at the theaters that night. I only noticed the voices were different but still didn't really think that much of it. When I got home a few hours later the trailer came on the tv and that's when I really noticed the huge difference. LOL!! Nothing slight about it.
If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't know that Ringo lam passed away. Anyways definitely enjoyed your review on this movie, maximum risk wasnt a bad van Damme movie. To me I think a mixture of things crashed van Damme's career. 1) his fighting style to me became to predictable and action scenes were lame. (2) the story of his started to become weak (3) the way how his movies were directed took away Alot of intensity sometimes with wide ahots
Great video, maximum risk is an excellent film one of my top 10 favourite van damme films. Couldn't agree more about Derailed which is the worst film van damme has ever been in.I'm a big van damme fan but even I don't have that in my collection of his films.
I need to rewatch this one. I've watched a few others recently, the free offerings on Amazon Prime. Nowhere to Run and Knock Off, plus his direct to video duo of Second in Command and The Hard Corps... sigh. Anyway this definitely gives me inspiration to revisit more of JCVD's back catalogue. Any chance you will do a video on Legionnaire?
I like Legionnaire a lot, that was actually supposed to get a theatrical release, had a good budget. Van Damme's straight to video offerings in general have been disappointing.
@@VikingSamurai Yes I remember you mentioning Legionnaire in a video and it still had a $20 million budget? Seems like it was perhaps the first film Van Damme made after his 3 picture contract with Sony (Maximum Risk/Double Team/Knock Off) but he was already well on his way out of Hollywood's good graces. Bummer. I'm hoping Amazon will offer it at some point, they seem to mix up Van Damme offerings every few months. Earlier this year I was able to enjoy Double Impact, Death Warrant and Kickboxer at least 3x.
If you did away with all the heavyweight action stars and saw this movie 🍿 One of a kind movie 🎥 ever made but could of had more scare and darkness in the drama or just a little more family connection with the mob twist you know?
This movie was a little diamond in the rough. If I recall it was 96/97 it was released which was when JCs career unfortunately started to dip. Other than JCVD, The Bouncer and the 1st episode of JCVJ this was his last best movie. As much as I love JC the last 20 years for the best part have been terrible. Such a shame JC doesn’t give the audience what they want. He’s been told too many times, you can’t make action/martial arts movies like those anymore which is absolutely BS. I hate all modern martial arts movies, too many ropes, fast shaky cameras, too choreographed and unrealistic. Not enough emotion and slow mo!
Maximum Risk was not a good movie. The movie just didnt pack a hard punch. This movie was made at a time when Van Damme started to go downhill - Mid 90's. I believe 95/96. I also dont think Ringo Lam was a great director either. John Woo was a much better director than Lam. Maximum Risk could have been made A LOT better. The movie needed a better storyline and a better/different director.
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I saw this movie for time I like the action, fights, and story. Maximum Risk is a great movie and deserves more respect.
One of Van Damme's most underrated films
hell. I can even go as far and say that "Maximum Risk is JCVD's best movie ever". this movie was nothing like the traditional stereotypical martial arts movies he makes, it was a realistic action gritty drama, and Van Damme arguably gave his best performance of his career. this movie is such a underrated masterpiece
Happy to hear your appreciation for such a classic!
true it was great
I didn't know Ringo Lam passed away, that's so sad. But anyways I love JCVD movies directed by Ringo. Because they feel so unique among the rest of JCVD filmography.
I own Maximum Rick and watch it alot, it's one of Van Damme's best films. It also shows how he has grown as actor.
Love that movie. It was two of the first movies I ever got on DVD. I remember my father and I going to Costco on my birthday in August of 1998, and he bought me a DVD player, and two movies. Dead Presidents and Maximum Risk. Great action thriller and Natasha Henstridge was smoking hot back then.
Damn that's a bummer that Lam passed. He was a great director who didn't get the recognition he deserved. Us fans know who's good and he was good.
This was a film that shoud had much more difussion. I found out about this film some years laters after its release and I loved it. Great chemistry between Jean Claude and Natasha. And the fighting scenes look amazing but at the same time, very real. Ringo Lam was an excellent artist and he was for sure one of the first directors to put JCVD in more dramatic and realistic roles. He really started to improve his dramatic acting with Ringo Lam's films. As always, great video, Viking Samurai!!
Love the channel. Replicant, Maximum Risk and In Hell were probably Van Dammes last decent movies he did.
Check out The Bouncer that came out a couple years ago. We need more like that!
the last 2 universal soldier movies are amazing!
@MOBsta Imaging Nope Until Death was his last good one The Bouncer is only good in the beginning
The fight sequences in maximum risk were a blend of flash and realism. My favorite was the one staged in a lift.
My favourite movie I had this as a double van damme vhs with double team I watched double team straight after.
One of the underrated movie of JCVD carrer..it has many well choreographed action & fight sequence. Another great video bro keep em coming !!👍
Maximum Risk is a great movie. Jean-Claude Van Damme and Natasha Henstridge spiced up the screen.
Maximum Risk is a highly underrated movie
This was a wonderful film, and a great one in the cinemas. Remember it fondly.
I'll tell you van dammes most underrated film by a long shot. Wake Of Death. The storyline is good and van dammes acting is as good as any top Hollywood actors. Have you ever seen anyone cry as convincingly as JC in this?
I'll need to rewatch that one, havent seen it since it came out.
@@VikingSamurai keep in mind what I said when you do. Hes head and shoulders above alot of top actors in that one. Every emotion he puts across is excellent
"Wake of Death" was the film that brought me back to Van Damme. I have a soft spot for these later films, like "Until Death", "Pound of Flesh" and "The Bouncer". I will say, though, that I have to skip over the power drill scene in "Wake of Death" !!😬
@@debrawagner7591 he blew it with The Expendables. He was offered to be part of the team from the start. But said no because he was making one of his own. One that never saw the light of day. Expendables could have reignited him for a while again. But he did play a good villain in the second one I suppose
I agree, he kinda missed the boat with "The Expendables" franchise - but he stole the film as the villain and got the best reviews!!
Maximum Risk, Replicant, In Hell & 6 Bullets are his most underrated films. I could watch these movies everyday!
In Hell was pretty lame. The green mile wanna be action move. Bad idea...just no
For me, his best is FULL CONTACT. The most brutal, gritty and nihilistic. Great director.
I totally agree with the tittle " Maximun Risk Deserves Respect!". This movie its very good, much more serious than it looks, and the cast is impressive ( Natascha Henstridge, Jean- Hugues Anglade...). I love the inicial scene with a very god car chase with lots stunts and after that the history to the twin brother separates on childhood is solid. Unfortunately at time JCVD made some bad choices on the others movies ( Double Team, Knock Off) both working with Tsui Hark and floops on box office around the world. I did not know about Stefanos Miltsakakis death, this guys work with JCVD on others movies before ( Cyborg, Lionheart, The Quest) and always made goons on Hollywood. Once a time a read about him and his martial skills and he training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with Gracie family on EUA. "Maximun Risk" is a very god action movie and one my favorites Van Damme flicks.
Stefano won a heavyweight championship Vale Tudo match.
Maximum risk was definitely one of my top martial arts films in general due in part to the gritty fight scenes and espionage themes for sure.
I really liked the fight scenes in Maximum Risk. At the time when MMA was not popular in movies, this was as close as it got, incorporating strikes and grappling, especially in a practical way.
Great observation!
I would say this is Van Damme's last great movie from his prime. Double Team and Knock Off pushed him to the direct to video bin,
Natasha Henstridge was gorgeous and a great match for JCVD, honestly though did that guy turn a script down if it had a twin role!? Sheesh. InHell was the movie that made me watch Van Damme movies again.
Yes, in Hell was a later good movie. Ringo Lam had a lot good HK Movies.
One of my favourite Van Damme movies and not just because of Natasha Henstridge.
Ringo Lam also made one of Chow Yun-Fat's best but underrated flims "Full Contact"
Just added it to my List. Thanks for the recommendation!
Its fantastic!
One of my all time favourites! Love the soundtrack, especially in the scene where he’s practicing shooting with the glass bottles. Still getting goosebumps after all these years. Cheers!
Ringo Lam truly one of the Elite directors of the Genre. RIP. . I think he brought the best outta Van Damme ''actingwise'', Maximum Risk was defienatley one of JCVDs best interms of plot and performance. Over-all I do prefer Lambs style over Woo's, he has a better balance on tone, pacing, me not the biggest fan of slow mo. IN HELL was underrated.
Cant wait for next video.
Replicant plot is preposterous, but the JCVD acting is really good.
Costanza - “ that’s gotta hurt! “... hysterical 😭
I love the way Viking Samurai so often slips in "Seinfeld" clips - they always make his point perfectly!😂
Ringo brought the best out in Van Damme, love the lift fight! Nothing fancy but brute! Replicant is awesome and shows some of Van Damme best acting.Ringo was going to do Wake of Death with Van Damme at the time was called Til Death but later left due to creative difference. Then I think some of them ideas went into Until Death. Great video bro, big Van Damme fan - Nik
Thanks for watching! Always great to hear from another fan of Van Damme.
I thought the action was as good as or better than any other Van Damme movies; very realistic. It also had some of the best acting and storylines. When I first saw it (only a few years ago) I couldn't believe I'd never seen it before nor how good it was. I actually think it's in the running for JCVD's best film.
It holds up really well. I bet a lot of people missed out on it when it first came out.
This movie is hard to like, even with Natasha Henstridge as an added incentive.
Th issue is that when you watch Van Damme for over a decade - you want to see
Van Damme being Van Damme. And here you are deprived of that completely.
Add to that very few fight scenes, none of which are memorable, a lack of a
central charismatic antagonist, a lack of a final showdown of any kind and
a failure to maximize the potential of Stefanos Miltsakakis.
Van Damme making "Hard Target" - was a such a tremendous achievement
as an action thriller, so that whatever came after - could never approach it.
This effect had often happened in many actors' career. After 1993, i was
always on the lookout for the next "Hard Target"-level Van Damme smash
hit...but sadly, never got it. Worse than that, everything with 2 Van Dammes
would inevitably be pitted against "Double Impact", and thus fail even more
miserably. Maximum Risk was the film that made my friends and me literally
scream: "Van Damme, where are you?!! Come back..." But he never did.
3 very underrated van damme gems
Wake of death was a good one
Another Cinema job for me. November 1997. Great film.
This was a performance masterpiece by van damme great acting very gritty film
Thanks for this, I never really made the connection that my favourite Van Damme movies are the ones directed by Ringo Lam. I loved City on Fire too.
One of my favourite JCVD films very gritty action
Derailed was also the point where I stopped buying his new release movies. I then got upgraded to a blu-Ray player in 2007 and from then on started buying his back catalogue movies again on the new format.
Maximum Risk is one of my favorite Van Damme movies, which is a tough call because I love all his movies (before he went DTV, and even some of those are decent - certainly better than most of Seagal's DTV fare).
I agree!
Wow I don't know how I missed this film thanks I'm going to check it out.
Awesome!
Really love Replicant as well, one of my favourites. You should make a review on it.
Going through back log of content..loving it!!
Ringo Lams Full Contact was great.
First and for most I love the content on your channel and I'm sorry I never came across your channel before, I'm a huge Van Damme fan when I was a kid I grew up watching his movies having my mom rent them over and over from Blockbuster Videos. Maximum Risk is one of my favorite Van Damme flicks I felt we saw Van Damme in a more serious role the movie itself is 👍
Awesome, this channel is definitely right up your alley then! Lol
I love all of van damme movies and keep making videos of van damme
Got a good one I'm working on now about the film he never released, The Eagle Path.
Thank you for this retrospective. It was very informative.
Thanks, glad u liked it
Great Video like always , thank you for the facts about the director and the actor steffano
Awesome movies.
Still to this day.
I own all 3 and need to watch them again.
Totally worth watching again!
Love this movie
It's great!
I have always liked this film, I thought many people didn’t like it.
I always had a rough time deciding if I liked Maximum Risk or Hard Target better. It's too bad Van Damme didn't have the same success with his films Double Team and Knock Off w/ Tsui Hark . I got a feeling you'll be talking about those folms next.
I definitely will be!
He made some great action films its ashame that hes stuck in the straight to video films now
It really is a shame.
Great videos classic movies keep up the good work! Thanks!
Thanks for watching the channel!
Great vid! I had no idea that Tarantino was inspired by Ringo Lam?! Someone told me that Tarantino used to be a video rental store clerk in LA before he became famous? Spent most of his days watching Hong Kong cinema and writing scripts. I like Johnny To also in HK cinema! Throwdown, the Kodokan Judo film is one of my favourites. Looking forward to the next vid! Thanks!
Tarantino certainly got exposed to and inspired by lot of those movies when he worked at the video store.
Great vid as always.
Team Van Damme
It's the greatest team ever! Lol
One thing I thought was weird though was that shower room fight scene wearing those small towels 😆 atleast we didn't have to see the Vandamme package like we did 10 years later when the movie Eastern Promises totally ripped off that fight scene and they showed way too much of Viggo Mortensen in that scene. I remember watching that movie thinking Holyshit this movie is great! Then the steam room fight scene my girlfriend and I went in that was awkward 😆 that Monday at work when I talked to my buddies I told them have you ever seen eastern promises? My friend goes steam room fight scene? I went ya man that's where the movie took a weird vibe and just kept going downhill after that. Then he said they ripped off Maximum Risk but added the nudity that wasn't needed at all 😆.
I always think of Eastern Promises when I see this fight scene lol. That was definitely a more realistic portrayal.
In Maximum Risk had some great Fighters and actors Stefanos Miltsakakis Kamel Krifa and the legendary pro kickboxer Rob the Dutchman Kaman the main villain Zach Grenier did a excellent job and Paul Ben-Victor the corrupt fbi agent was good to great child hood memories
The Greek guy was also in Best of the Best 2
Very good movie!
Yes! In Hell is great.
I went to restaurant Stephanos & One Armed Baxter bounced at to meet them. Derailed gave us the 1st Oma Splatta flip to butt face smash vs open guard....yes a guy has really done it since to KO effect, and also Mongolian Butt Drop in Pride.
Another underrated van damme movie is Inferno
In hell was a movie that made me rediscover Vandamme at the time I lost some respect for Vandamme after he was going around all high on cocaine and booze picking fights with guys like Chuck Zito and got his ass handed to him. I kind of quit watching his movies because a tru martial Arts student doesnt how around acting like a bully and picking fights. But after Vandamme cleaned up his life and got humbled I started to be a fan again. In He'll was a great movie and Lawrence Taylor really did a great job in that movie. Ringo Lam highly underrated director and I enjoyed that movie more than anything Vandamme had put out in quite some time. Actually you should check out the Movie Legionarre from around 97 or 98 I think but it was a straight to video one but it's a pretty descent movie and had a good story.
I'm a huge fan of Legionnaire! I think at the time it was the most expensive straight to video movie produced.
@@VikingSamurai I agree man! I remember a friend and I went and rented that movie and we both went, why was this not released in the movies? It's a great underrated movie and I have only seen it a couple times but man it was damn good. I need to go on amazon and see if I can buy it now. 😆
@MOBsta Imaging agreed man. I liked Legionarre but I didn't keep up on Vandamme until I heard about in hell from a co worker
Hard Target was the Shit!! there's a scene at the end where JCVD shoots a bad guy about 13 times & then gives a nice spin-kick to finish him off. Gold!!
That's the uncut international version.
@@JoeBuck207 ???? that doesn't track. the scene i'm talking about was in the original home vhs (theatrical) release?
You're telling me there's an uncut version of this movie?????
@@mackychloe Two uncut versions of Hard Target, one I had on Vhs it had Chance and Natasha love scene fades to black and the other uncut version is only on Blu Ray, the dvd version is the edited theatrical release. Get the Blu Ray its uncut but the first version is lost just like my Vhs copy.
I dunno.. this film isn't terrible. It's just it lacks heart. Van Dammes earlier films had heart.
Maximum Risk really set the tone for Jason Bourne. Pretty much the same movie about search for identity except Van Damme doesn't have super powers
That's a great observation.
ringo lam a great action legend just like john woo great action before he came to america just like woo city on fire full contact great movies r.i.p legend van damme also worked with tsui hark in double team and knock off not his best movies but another one of hong kong greats
I have maximum risk in the top 10 all time van damme movies. Probably number 7 or 8 to be honest
I have most of Van damme's movies, there hard to find now though.
Slight correction there were three sequels to Species, two with Natasha Species 2 & 3 and the other being Species: The Awakening which was horrible by the way.
Dude you should do one on cyborg
Oh I will, that's one of my fave Van Damme ones!
Yes I love that movie! Saw it in the theater.
Cyborg nice
Miltsakakis is also in bloodsport 4 dark kumite,Remember that masterpiece? LoL
Wow that movies bad! I thought Miltsakakis looked the best in Best of the Best 2.
@@VikingSamurai yeah,i Remember,he plays the olympic wrestling gold medalist
Who doesn't even attemp a takedown when he fights Phillip Rhee😆
His twin brother's voice in the recorder that was in the bank safe cracked me up when you heard it in the trailers. LOL! In the film the voice is some sort of European accent and is rather smooth. The one in the trailer was straight up American rough and macho deep and slightly rumbly. LOL! I remember seeing the trailer just before I went to see the movie at the theaters that night. I only noticed the voices were different but still didn't really think that much of it. When I got home a few hours later the trailer came on the tv and that's when I really noticed the huge difference. LOL!! Nothing slight about it.
Lol.. whenever I see the trailer it really throws me off!
THATS GOTTA HURT!
So underrated🎬🎬🔥🔝
If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't know that Ringo lam passed away. Anyways definitely enjoyed your review on this movie, maximum risk wasnt a bad van Damme movie. To me I think a mixture of things crashed van Damme's career. 1) his fighting style to me became to predictable and action scenes were lame. (2) the story of his started to become weak (3) the way how his movies were directed took away Alot of intensity sometimes with wide ahots
Great video, maximum risk is an excellent film one of my top 10 favourite van damme films. Couldn't agree more about Derailed which is the worst film van damme has ever been in.I'm a big van damme fan but even I don't have that in my collection of his films.
I have 2 copies of Derailed in my collection lol... My brother wanted nothing to do with his copy, buy I felt bad just throwing it away.
I bought derailed on dvd new & sealed over 10 years later it's still sealed never opened it up i just have it in my collection.
I grew up watching a lot of Sho Kosugi's movies. He had a lot of ninja films
I liked Black Eagle a lot.
Great video
Thanks for watching!
Viking Samurai , thank you.
I need to rewatch this one. I've watched a few others recently, the free offerings on Amazon Prime. Nowhere to Run and Knock Off, plus his direct to video duo of Second in Command and The Hard Corps... sigh. Anyway this definitely gives me inspiration to revisit more of JCVD's back catalogue.
Any chance you will do a video on Legionnaire?
I like Legionnaire a lot, that was actually supposed to get a theatrical release, had a good budget. Van Damme's straight to video offerings in general have been disappointing.
@@VikingSamurai Yes I remember you mentioning Legionnaire in a video and it still had a $20 million budget? Seems like it was perhaps the first film Van Damme made after his 3 picture contract with Sony (Maximum Risk/Double Team/Knock Off) but he was already well on his way out of Hollywood's good graces. Bummer.
I'm hoping Amazon will offer it at some point, they seem to mix up Van Damme offerings every few months. Earlier this year I was able to enjoy Double Impact, Death Warrant and Kickboxer at least 3x.
@@amoeboidtendencies5137 Those are all incredible!
@@VikingSamurai Haha yes it's been the year of JCVD for me. I even watched most of his isometric Train with Van Damme video series!
one of the last great van damme movies. legionere was also good replicant not bad . and then from 2000 he started to make some wierd movies
I havent heard of maxium risk hopefully I can watch it on Tubi.
I have this movie on vhs. lol.
not all direct to DVD films of van damme and lundgren and with seagal and snipes aren't that bad come on
Thank you, there are still some awesome van damme movies even after the 90s.
If you did away with all the heavyweight action stars and saw this movie 🍿 One of a kind movie 🎥 ever made but could of had more scare and darkness in the drama or just a little more family connection with the mob twist you know?
The tree movies realy good one more van damme is the best
This movie was a little diamond in the rough. If I recall it was 96/97 it was released which was when JCs career unfortunately started to dip. Other than JCVD, The Bouncer and the 1st episode of JCVJ this was his last best movie. As much as I love JC the last 20 years for the best part have been terrible. Such a shame JC doesn’t give the audience what they want. He’s been told too many times, you can’t make action/martial arts movies like those anymore which is absolutely BS. I hate all modern martial arts movies, too many ropes, fast shaky cameras, too choreographed and unrealistic. Not enough emotion and slow mo!
Love your videos!!! Are you on instagram?
Yes. As realvikingsamurai.
Hello sir which country are you from?
United States.
Maximum Risk is my less favorite collaboration between JCVD and Ringo Lam
Good, now do knock off with van damme
Coming soon, but first Double Team.
Seagal beat van damme at the very start that's why he is injured and brusied and being chased
Maximum Risk was not a good movie. The movie just didnt pack a hard punch. This movie was made at a time when Van Damme started to go downhill - Mid 90's. I believe 95/96. I also dont think Ringo Lam was a great director either. John Woo was a much better director than Lam.
Maximum Risk could have been made A LOT better. The movie needed a better storyline and a better/different director.
His last really decent action movie, pretty much everything since has been garbage.
dereailed was so baddd