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Double Impact
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Double Impact is a 1991 American action and martial arts film directed by Sheldon Lettich. The cast includes Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alan Scarfe, and Philip Chan. Van Damme also served as a producer alongside Paul Michael Glaser, Ashok Amritraj, and Michael Douglas. The screenplay was written by Lettich, Van Damme, and Steve Meerson. The narrative is set in Hong Kong and Los Angeles and centers on the subject of revenge.
The film was produced by Columbia Pictures, Stone Group Pictures, and Vision International. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and Netflix in video on demand format. The original languages are English, Cantonese, and French. With a budget of 15,000,000, the film has a runtime of 110 minutes according to TMDb and IMDb, while Wikidata lists a duration of 118 minutes. Box office figures vary, with Wikidata citing 80,500,000 and TMDb reporting revenue of 30,102,717. Review scores include 4.2/10, 32%, and 40/100 from one source, 6.213 from TMDb, and 5.7 from IMDb.
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6.2Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
Cast
- Jean-Claude Van Damme as Alex / Chad Wagner
- Geoffrey Lewis as Frank Avery
- Alonna Shaw as Danielle Wilde
- Bolo Yeung as Moon
- Cory Everson as Kara
- Philip Chan Yan-Kin as Raymond Zhang
Themes
- martial arts
- war veteran
- fight
- loss of loved one
- fighter
- villainess
- karate
- revenge
- organized crime
- hong kong
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Sheldon Lettich
- Screenplay by
- Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Story by
- Sheldon Lettich, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steve Meerson , Peter Krikes
- Produced by
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ashok Amritraj
- Starring
- Jean-Claude Van Damme Geoffrey Lewis Alan Scarfe
- Cinematography
- Richard H. Kline
- Edited by
- Mark Conte
- Music by
- Arthur Kempel
- Production companies
- Stone Group Pictures, Vision International
- Distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- Release date
- August 9, 1991 ( 1991-08-09 )
- Running time
- 110 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English, Cantonese
- Budget
- $15 million to $16 million
- Box office
- $30.1 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- martial arts film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- French
- Main subject
- revenge
- Director
- Sheldon Lettich
- Cast member
- Pjetër Malota
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Richard H. Kline
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 118
- FilmAffinity ID
- 263029
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1992-01-16
- title
- Double Impact
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 15000000
- box office
- 80500000
- review score
- 40/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
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Encyclopedic overview
Double Impact is a 1991 American action film written and directed by Sheldon Lettich, and written, produced by and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chad and Alex Wagner. The film marks Van Damme's third collaboration with director Sheldon Lettich (who wrote Bloodsport and directed Lionheart) and second collaboration with Bolo Yeung (the first being Bloodsport in 1988). Double Impact was released in the United States on August 9, 1991.
Plot
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