The movie unites Jean Claude Van Damme and Daniel Bernhardt for the first time. Jean Claude Van Damme starred in Bloodsport and Daniel Bernhardt in Bloodsport 2, 3 and 4.
Peter Malota makes his directorial debut and is a long-time friend of Jean-Claude Van Damme. He was involved in Double Impact, Universal Soldier, The Quest and The Order.
It is the directorial debut of Peter Malota and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme. Peter Malota acted in the directorial debut of Van Damme, The Quest, as the Spanish fighter.
Jean-Claude Van Damme and Daniel Bernhardt actually go back a long way: on a podcast called Filmik: Action Matters, Daniel explained he was a big fan of Bloodsport and Kickboxer (and he starred in the Bloodsport sequels) and he was sent by a friend on an audition for a Johnny Versace commercial where Van Damme was the star and was an upcoming action hero. They also trained briefly together on set and starred in films directed by Sheldon Lettich on films such as AWOL (Lionheart) and Perfect Target.
The tag line "When you don't know who to trust" has a common grammatical error. Subject pronoun "who" should be object pronoun "whom" in formal English. Consider: would the answer be "Trust he" or "Trust him"; "Trust they" or "Trust them"? The word ending in "m" is the proper object of the verb "Trust". (This comment written by a retired teacher with a Masters Degree in English.)