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- Alain Moreau didn't know he had a brother, even a twin brother - until he found him laying dead on the street. To reveal the truth about his twin, he now has to continue in his footsteps - he simply has to become Mikhail, travel across the Atlantic and sink into the world that ended his brothers days. Here he meets his brothers beautiful girlfriend Alex, who doesn't suspect a thing for starters. She works as a waitress in a pub, owned by the Russian mafia, and when they find out Alain's true intentions, all hell breaks out...
- Allain Moreau, a French soldier is called by his friend, a cop. He goes to see him who shows him the body of a man who looks like him. His papers say his name is Mikhail and that he's from New York. Allain talks to his mother who tells him that she had twins but was forced to give one up. Allain goes to see the lawyer who handled the adoption and when he goes there someone is there and they fight and there's a fire that destroy the records. Allain then decides to go to New York and find out why his brother was killed. He learns that Mikhail worked for the Russian mob. He meets Mikhail's girlfriend, Alex who thinks he's Mikhail. And when members of the mob see him thinking he's Mikhail try to kill him so he goes on the run with Alex. Later he runs into a couple of FBI agents who know he's not Mikhail and offer to help him but Allain doesn't trust them.
- Maximum Risk was released in 1996, the year after Species was released and was, if I remember correctly, a huge hit. I was in high school at the time, and I know it was highly popular with my peers, who are clearly the same target audience that director Ringo Lam was shooting for with Maximum Risk. Van Damme lends his cult star power along with Natasha Henstridge (which the IMDb claims is sometimes credited as "The Chick From Species") under the direction of Hong Kong action director Lam and the result is a remarkably bad, by-the-numbers revenge drama.<br/><br/>The movie opens with a routine high speed chase that is interesting only because it takes places through tiny alleys in the south of France and ends in a wild jump into oncoming traffic by the man being chased, who is played by Van Damme and who dies before we even see the title of the movie. The last movie that I watched before this one was Universal Soldier, another movie in which Van Damme's character is killing within the first few minutes of the movie, so I was surprised to see it happen again given that this is obviously a very different movie. But if nothing else, the opening chase definitely gets your attention, if only to make you wonder what would make him so desperate to escape from the men chasing him, who turned out to be government agents.<br/><br/>But an early death is not the only familiar thing we'll see. Van Damme also plays a double role and spends most of the movie trying to avenge his brother, You see, it seems that there is a French cop who bears an astonishing resemblance to the man killed in the chase, and after some investigation it's revealed that he is a long lost brother. The mother tearfully admits that she had to give up her other son when he was an infant because she couldn't support two children, and never told her other son Alain (the French police officer) that he ever had a brother.<br/><br/>That's basically the set-up, and Alain drops everything and sets off on a personal quest to find out who his brother was and who killed him and why. This is what leads him to Alex, his dead brother's girlfriend, played by Natasha Henstridge, who surely would never have taken such a ridiculous role had she not been brand new in the movies. This is her second film, and I am at a loss to explain why she would accept such a ludicrous role other than her inexperience in film.<br/><br/>Alex is an ex-stripper who is now a waitress for questionable characters ("less money but more respectable"), who doesn't blink when Alain shows up at her work, other than to rush him out because he's not exactly welcome there. He tends to be stone silent when he approaches people who think that he is his brother, but in most cases ultimately he comes right out and tells them, and when he tells Alex, she joins him in his mission.<br/><br/>Sadly, there is nothing interesting or original about the movie. Every character is a cliché, good guys or bad. All that's left is Alain's quest to learn about his brother's life and bring his killers to justice, which is honorable but all he can do is spout cheesy lines about how he's not going to rest until his brother's killers are brought to justice. I have said before that Van Damme gets a lot of bad press about his movies, and I think that because of that people often forget that his characters are almost always motivated by very honorable ideas and values. He delivers a good message in a way that very few other action stars do, and unfortunately in Maximum Risk the problem is that it's too obvious and there's not really anything else in the movie to entertain us along the way.<br/><br/>James Berardinelli, for example, claims in his review that Van Damme's acting ability "can charitably be described as 'limited,'" so clearly there can be no satisfactory emotional content in the movie. He's right that Van Damme's acting is often wooden and unconvincing, but dead wrong that he can't do it. Sadly, it wasn't until eight years later, in Wake of Death (which Berardinelli didn't see) that Van Damme showed without question that he can definitely convey emotions. WOW.<br/><br/>There is the issue that there is no chemistry whatsoever between Van Damme and Henstridge, but a more pressing concern is that she was a man's lover and then, after he was killed, she honored his memory by becoming his twin brother's lover. Is it just me or does something about that just not come off right? Sort of throws a wet towel over the already boring and routine obligatory ending.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, Lam is not the first Hong Kong action director to enter the American market with a Van Damme disaster. John Woo, an occasionally lucky director, also came to America and brought us Hard Target, another of Van Damme's few thorough disappointments. Van Damme is a major action star with genuine talent and appeal, but sadly this movie was worth the time of effort of anyone involved
- The Story: Alain, a French policeman, is shocked to discover that he had a twin brother when his body is found in Nice. Investigating the murder, he finds out that he was in possession of a list that details the deeds of the Russian Mafia. Helped by his brother's girlfriend, Alain dodges Russian gangsters & corrupt FBI agents while trying to find the list.<br/><br/>"Maximum Risk" is another one of the long list of action films that feature Jean-Claude Van Damme. As far as things go, it is strictly formulaic. The script sticks to the clichés & the acting is mediocre. There are some nicely done action sequences, with an inventive car chase, a fight in a burning building, an escape through rooftops, a brutal fight in an elevator & JCVD fleeing his enemies over an elevated train line. Director Ringo Lam keeps everything going at a reasonable pace.
- The British BBFC 18 Version misses out 7 fight scenes, e.g. the usage of a knife or sequences showing the breaking of bones. Those cuts were waived for the Blu-ray release. In Niece, Russian mobster Mikhail Suverov is chased by FBI agents Pellman and Loomis, but is killed. Assigned to investigate Suverov's death, police officer Alain Moreau and his partner Sebastien learn that Mikhail is Alain's identical long lost twin brother, whom was given up for adoption and that Mikhail resided in New York. Going to New York on a personal journey to find out more about Mikhail. Alain is soon targeted by Ivan Dzasokhov, right hand man of Russian mob boss Dmitri Kirov whom mistakes Alain for Mikhail. With Ivan and his men in pursuit, Alain and Mikhail's mistress Alex Minetti soon discover that Pellman and Loomis are corrupt and are working for Ivan and that Mikhail was gathering evidence of Pellman and Loomis working for the Russian mob and that he intended to expose their activities to the authorities and Alain decides to turn the tables on Ivan, Pellman and Loomis and avenge Mikhail's murder and find out what was Mikhail's intention of exposing Pellman and Loomis to the authorities. a5c7b9f00b
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