Double Impact [1991]

[Cross-posted on the Bad Movie Night Facebook page.]

The more Van Dammes the better! While the last time we saw two Van Dammes it was the result of cloning, here we have two Van Dammes who are twins separated at birth! Maybe we'll one day see all the double Van Damme films and learn all the different cheap excuses for having an actor play a duel role.

After a Hong Kong business deal gone wrong, the Van Damme twins' parents get murdered. One of the twins, Chad, gets raised by the family bodyguard, Uncle Frankie, in France (to explain the accent) and becomes a karate expert and instructor who wears a lot of pastels. The other one, Alex, gets dumped at a Hong Kong orphanage and becomes a gangster. Many years later, Uncle Frankie decides to give up his respectable business to unite the two brothers and go after the gangsters and evil British dude who killed their parents. The gangster team consists of a leader who always wears a light-colored suit, Bolo Yeung, and the red-headed black-clad evil 90s action girl who can break your head with her thighs. A lot of fighting results from numerous "comedic" situations that occur when people mix up the brothers (this action was sometimes set in the subtly named Climax Club). At one point, Chad saves Alex's girlfriend and Alex responds by drinking and imagining them boinking which leads to a Van Damme on Van Damme fistfight that I guess the audience was waiting for. Our particular audience was waiting for Van Damme and Yeung to get unnecessarily shirtless which does happen during their final stand-off (I think it was Chad!Van Damme who also killed the British guy; Alex!Van Damme was busy killing muscular thigh girl and the suited leader). The Van Dammes save Uncle Frankie and Alex's girlfriend and in the end, they decide to embrace their fraternity and the film ends on a freeze frame:

They probably go on to form their own gang with Uncle Frankie and the girlfriend.

This movie is all the usual cheese we have come to expect from any given Van Damme movie. Now you also get hilariously bad special effects to have both Van Dammes in the scene at once:

So realistic!

Van Damme only did one split in this movie, very rare for him, and didn't show his butt, also rare. We did however get our one split in the form of this awkwardness:

Summarizing Line: "I think we were wasting our time here."

Quote: "You don't know what side your bread is buttered on, you silly git."

BMN Quote:

Adam: A VanDammewich.

Keith: Delicious but not too tough.