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Hard Target

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Hard Target (1993)

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Reviews Counted: 21

Fresh: 7

Rotten:14

Average Rating: 4.8/10

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 hires the man to help track down the lost parent,... 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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Nov 9, 1999

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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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One of my greatest guilty pleasures.

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Hysterically inept attempt at action filmmaking

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

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Should have been so much better.

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

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