Maximum Risk

  • Jean -Claude Van Damme: Alain Moreau / Mikhail Suverov
  • Natasha Henstridge: Alex Minetti
  • Jean -Hugues Anglade: Sebastien
  • Zach Grenier: Ivan Dzasokhov
  • Paul Ben -Victor: Agent Pellman
  • Frank Senger: Agent Loomis
  • Stefanos Miltsakakis: Red Face
  • Frank Van Keeken: Davis Hartley
  • David Hemblen Dmitri Kirov
  • Stéphane Audran: Chantal Moreau

Maximum Risk is an American action film directed by Ringo Lam from the year 1996.

Action

Mikhail Suverov works for the Russian Mafia and is murdered in southern France. The case is taken over by the French police Alain Moreau, who notes that the deceased was his twin brother, who grew up separated from him.

Moreau travels as Suverov to New York City, where he, the girlfriend of his brother gets to know Alex Minetti. He is fighting against the US-led Ivan Dzasokhov Russian mafia. He is disturbed by FBI agents.

Reviews

James Berardinelli compared the film to ReelViews with those produced in Hong Kong films. He had the impression while watching, he would have already seen the movie before, what the plot, the action sequences and the presence of Jean -Claude Van Damme were responsible. Berardinelli mocked the writer had taken the idea of ​​the twin brothers of a soap opera. Furthermore, he advised prefer to see one of the produced in Hong Kong films of the director of this film instead.

Peter Stack wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle of 14 March 1997, the movie start " furious " at, but would after four minutes of " embarrassing " exercise in Pointelosigkeit and predictability. The plot is " lame ", the dialogues were " unimaginative ".

The magazine Cinema wrote that the film was " no more than a typical Van Damme ". He was " a conventional Quickie with a handful of spectacular action sequences that enrich the moderately exciting drama to show the necessary values."

Background

The movie was filmed including Nice, Paris, New York City and Toronto. His cost of production was estimated at 25 million U.S. dollars. He played in the cinemas of the United States, a 14.5 million U.S. dollars and about 51.7 million U.S. dollars worldwide.

The film was also released as a shortened VHS cassette with an age rating of 16 years.

1996 in film Screenplay Roger Birnbaum Film score Robert Folk Alexander Gruszynski Jean-Hugues Anglade
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