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Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Hong Kong film director John Woo. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work homeless Cajun merchant seaman and former United States Force Recon Marine who saves a young woman named Natasha Binder from a gang of thugs in New Orleans. Chance learns that Binder is searching for her missing father, and agrees to aid Binder in her…
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Former citizens of Yugoslavia had to wait for two years before Hollywood bothered to address the chaotic and bloody dissolution of that country. When it happened, it was, at start, only a passing remark spoken by a villain in *Hard Target*, 1993 action film, nowadays best known as American debut of legendary Hong Kong director John Woo. The plot of the film is set in New Orleans where the ruthless businessman Emil F…More
I have to admit from the start that I am a massive fan of John Woo's works. His action films and style from Hong Kong in the 80s and 90s are full of soul and exaggerated filmmaking techniques that are incredibly difficult to not love. Slow motion action scenes, jazz music, and a hail of all-out gunfire from weapons that appear to never need to be reloaded, and explosions that come from anything and everything. These…More
Image source Jean-Claude Van Damme was my absolute favorite *actor* back when I was little. By *actor*, I mean my favorite protagonist because that's what we called them as kids in Nigeria. He's the main character in Hard Target which was one of my dad's favorite and we watched it on VHS so many times, I could lip sync to some scenes. I saw this movie on TV last night and it brought back so many memories of movie ti…More
I have to admit that I find Jean Claude Van Damme films to be a guilty pleasure. Nearly every movie that he is in has basically the same plot sequence yet the people back in the late 80's and early 90's flocked to cinemas to see them every single time. This film made 50-60 million dollars in profits (before marketing) and back in those days, this was about what you could expect from all Van Damme films. JCVD is NOT…More
Hard Target stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Beaudreau, a down on his luck, New Orleans veteran helping a woman, Yancy Butler, find her father. What they uncover is a group of bad guys who take rich folk on safari, hunting homeless, combat veterans. Wilford Brinkley plays his uncle with a Cajun accent. It’s a weird action flick. This is director John Woo’s first American film and it is an odd hybrid between his…More
Hard Target stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Beaudreau, a down on his luck, New Orleans veteran helping a woman, Yancy Butler, find her father. What they uncover is a group of bad guys who take rich folk on safari, hunting homeless, combat veterans. Wilford Brinkley plays his uncle with a Cajun accent. It’s a weird action flick. This is director John Woo’s first American film and it is an odd hybrid between his…More
Hard Target stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Beaudreau, a down on his luck, New Orleans veteran helping a woman, Yancy Butler, find her father. What they uncover is a group of bad guys who take rich folk on safari, hunting homeless, combat veterans. Wilford Brinkley plays his uncle with a Cajun accent. It’s a weird action flick. This is director John Woo’s first American film and it is an odd hybrid between his…More
In the movie Hard Target Jean-Claude Van Damme learns that some wealthy people hunt homeless men as a form of *sport*. Van Damme starts investigating and finds the responsables. The sad part about this movie is, that it is not merely fiction, but it's very true, although many people don't want to see the truth. Picture: 1More
