An Ex-French Soldier begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.An Ex-French Soldier begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.An Ex-French Soldier begins participating in underground street fights in order to make money for his brother's family.
Vojislav Govedarica
- Sgt. Hartog
- (as Voyo Goric)
Dennis Rucker
- Irish Legionnaire
- (as Dennis Wayne Rucker)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA sequel was planned but never materialized.
- GoofsA.W.O.L. actually stands for Absent Without Official Leave.
- Alternate versionsAustralian releases rated M are edited for violence.
- ConnectionsEdited into Jean-Claude Van Damme, Coup sur Soup (2023)
Featured review
Up there in Van Dammage's top five flicks!
Before we head off down critical trail, lets be charitable. This is a Van Damme flick - more or less its own genre, certainly sufficiently signposted for the unwary to avoid if this is not their comfort zone. Now I have to admit to a certain bias - we have almost every film Van Damme has ever made, and for the most part, on simply an entertainment scale, Jean Claude delivers the goods. (Even as late as REPLICANT)
This offering - known pretty much EVERYWHERE but the US as WRONG BET (By far the better title when you watch it) is value for money. You wanna see classical acting? go study Laurence Olivier's HENRY V. You fancy mind bending sci-fi...hell, Kubrick's 2001 ain't never gonna be topped. You want to laugh yourself senseless? go watch a Renny Harlin flick...but you want to see some serious hurting on screen...let Van Damme loose.
I am tiring of the incessant complaints that Van Damme can't act! Did he ever say he could? How many of his detractors could do any better? Could John Wayne? did anyone ever want to SEE him being anything BUT John Wayne? JCVD does a half decent job here I have to say and it strikes me as a case of "let him who is without sin" etc etc when it comes to assassinating his thespian talents.
This film has plenty going for it......namely action, conviction and courage. In the genre in which it finds itself necessarily categorised, I believe a 7 is in order!
This offering - known pretty much EVERYWHERE but the US as WRONG BET (By far the better title when you watch it) is value for money. You wanna see classical acting? go study Laurence Olivier's HENRY V. You fancy mind bending sci-fi...hell, Kubrick's 2001 ain't never gonna be topped. You want to laugh yourself senseless? go watch a Renny Harlin flick...but you want to see some serious hurting on screen...let Van Damme loose.
I am tiring of the incessant complaints that Van Damme can't act! Did he ever say he could? How many of his detractors could do any better? Could John Wayne? did anyone ever want to SEE him being anything BUT John Wayne? JCVD does a half decent job here I have to say and it strikes me as a case of "let him who is without sin" etc etc when it comes to assassinating his thespian talents.
This film has plenty going for it......namely action, conviction and courage. In the genre in which it finds itself necessarily categorised, I believe a 7 is in order!
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- uds3
- Sep 22, 2003
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $24,078,196
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,094,552
- Jan 13, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $24,271,196
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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