Review – Lionheart

At this point in Jean Claude Van Damme’s career, he had crested and was on his way back down. He’s done some relatively big budget stuff since (like Time Cop), but after Lionheart his spot on the cutting edge of martial arts movies was mostly usurped by Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal and a few others. Here the Bulgin’ Belgian plays a legionnaire who deserts his post in order to earn money for his widowed sister-in-law by kickboxing. Some of the Frank-Dux-choreographed fight scenes aren’t too bad, but otherwise it’s just another guy-oriented slugfest. Mildly amusing