Product Information
Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the south of France to the streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's girlfriend...Product Identifiers
ProducerMoshe Diamant
EAN5050582247053
eBay Product ID (ePID)30740084
Product Key Features
ActorNatasha Henstridge, Paul Ben-Victor, Zach Grenier, Stephane Audran, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Film/TV TitleMaximum Risk
DirectorRingo Lam
LanguageEnglish
Run Time96 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Wide Screen\2.35 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
FeaturesWidescreen, Theatrical Trailer, With Subtitles
GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ReviewsVariety - ...It's a visceral delight....[A] full-tilt genre boogie...
Additional InformationAfter making several violent Hong Kong action films in the style that's come to be known as heroic bloodshed, Ringo Lam came to Hollywood to make his first American film with Belgian martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. MAXIMUM RISK, like Van Damme's previous DOUBLE IMPACT, is the story of twin brothers. Unlike the earlier film--in which he played brothers with contrasting characters--here he's a French policeman, Alain Moreau, who takes on the identity of his dead brother, Mikhail. They were separated at birth when their mother, Chantal, played by veteran French film actress Stephane Audran, gave one up for adoption to a Russian diplomat. He grew up to become a member of the new Russian Mafia operating out of the Little Odessa section of New York City. When Mikhail is murdered in France after a wild chase through the streets, Alain goes to New York, where he's assumed to be Mikhail by everyone from the local Russian crime boss to his brother's beautiful girlfriend, Alex (Natasha Henstridge) Working with a seemingly unlimited budget for car crashes, Lam stages the action scenes with a kinetic flair and smartly knits them together with the help of sharp editing by Bill Pankow.
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Format DescriptionDVD 5
Movie/TV TitleMaximum Risk