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Hard Target (1993)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:13

Rotten:15

Average Rating:5.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: A young woman searching for her missing and homeless father in a seamy section of New Orleans is saved by a martial arts fighter, sometime merchant seaman, when a gang of thugs try to rob her. She... A young woman searching for her missing and homeless father in a seamy section of New Orleans is saved by a martial arts fighter, sometime merchant seaman, when a gang of thugs try to rob her. She hires the man to help track down the lost parent, and they both end up being the targets for a vicious gang of "human" hunters. Chance Boudreaux, a brawny merchant sailor who has come up on hard times saves doe-eyed Natasha Binder from a gang of thugs and she offers him a proposition; she'll pay him well if he'll help find her missing father in New Orleans. But her father may already have been killed by wealthy thrill-seeking businessmen who have made a sport of hunting forgotten, homeless, veterans, and if Chance and Natasha discover this deadly scheme, they just might, be the next victims. [More]

Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley

Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley

Director: John Woo

Director: John Woo

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Though working on a Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle can be seen as a comedown for Woo, he rises to the occasion to create an often rousing entertainment that is almost inarguably Van Damme's best film to date.

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11/02/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A disappointing American debut of the Hong Kong cult director John Woo is a decent action vehicle by standards of its star Jean-Claude Van Damme but, hampered by a B script and flat characters, it doesn't bear Woo's auteurist signature and unique vision

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10/10/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
Variety
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It's what Hollywood wanted Woo for: bigger, brighter explosions.

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06/24/06
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out

One of my greatest guilty pleasures.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Hysterically inept attempt at action filmmaking

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01/20/06
Jon Niccum
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

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10/09/05
Chuck O'Leary
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Fantastica Daily

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09/23/05
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

A combo of American Honk Kong actioners that fails to show John Woo's distinctive talent

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07/03/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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Should have been so much better.

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09/16/04
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

Presenting Mr. Van Damme as reverentially as Sergio Leone did the young Clint Eastwood, Mr. Woo displays a real aptitude for malignant mischief, which is this story's stock in trade.

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08/30/04
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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03/23/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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01/02/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

It may once have been a second-rate "B" picture, but John Woo turns it into something better.

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10/20/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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San Francisco Examiner

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06/30/03
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11/07/02
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

Van Damme's kicks and flips never looked so cool.

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Kevin N. Laforest
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Montreal Film Journal

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