Legionnaire (film)

• Jean -Claude Van Damme: Alain Lefevre
• Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje: Luther
• Steven Berkoff: Sgt Stone fight
• Nicholas Farrell: Mackintosh
• Jim Carter: Lucien Galgani
• Ana Sofrenovic: Katrina

The Legionnaire is an American action film from the year 1998., The main role is played by Jean -Claude Van Damme.

Action

Alain Lefevre is a French boxer from Marseille in the 1920s. He does not adhere to a consultation with a crime boss and wins a fight he was supposed to lose. Hunted by the criminals he flees into the Foreign Legion. After a hard drill in the African desert however, it is found there by the crooks. However, the hostile men have to stick together, as their bastion of Berber tribes attacked. The Legionaries are overrun by the superior force. Lefevre the only survivor and to orient the other whites, that the Berber can be submit by anyone and that it was their land.

Background

• The budget was 20 million U.S. dollars.

Criticism

The lexicon of the International film criticized the film as a " rough -cut action-adventure, free of directorial subtleties. " But it kept him in good stead, that he was " of the Convention distance" take, " to celebrate the violent triumph of the hero to the final. "