An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.An international spy teams up with an arms dealer to escape from a penal colony and rescue his family from a terrorist.
- Awards
- 4 wins total
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMickey Rourke underwent a serious martial arts regime to obtain the physical appearance in the film, and to prepare for his fight scenes with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
- GoofsWhen Jack is attacked underwater during his escape from the Colony, his assailant tries to kill him by putting a bag over his head. Jack is already underwater, so trying to kill him via suffocation makes no sense.
- Quotes
Stavros: You know, Jack... I can call you Jack, can't I? I bet there's not a single night where you can close your eyes tight enough without seeing my little boy's face. I'm gonna give you a chance to know your son. If you live today, you'll get to know your son. And if you don't, I'll raise him as my own. You know, men are strong, Jack, but the tiger is stronger. Oh, one more thing, Jack. There's nothing wrong with stepping on a mine. It's stepping off that counts.
When Stavros (Mickey Rourke) abducts Jack's pregnant wife, having vowed revenge for the accidental death of his son during the earlier shootout, Jack escapes the colony, seeks help from an S&M freak gun dealer named Yaz (played by eccentric basketball bad-boy Dennis Rodman), and embarks on a dangerous rescue mission that culminates in an explosive showdown inside a coliseum.
Opening with Quinn escaping from some bad guys by jumping a heavily armoured stolen vehicle through a speeding train (without the aid of a ramp), this film is completely crazy from the get go, and Hong Kong director Tsui Hark doesn't let the insanity subside until the very end, chucking in such spectacular nonsense as Van Damme kicking the crap out of bad guys while hanging from an air-plane cargo net, a Chinese killer who uses his knife with his foot, a top secret society of cyber-monks, and a finale that sees the good guys fight a tiger in the middle of a mine field before escaping certain death from fireball through the use of a Coke vending machine.
Special mention must also be made of the incredible amount of glass that gets smashed during the film (usually because someone has been thrown through it).
Although I'll never quite understand how this film got green-lit, I'm sure glad it did: a more enjoyably insane piece of 90s nonsense you'll be hard pushed to find.
Call me crazy, but I rate Double Team 8 out of 10 simply for being so bloody silly.
- BA_Harrison
- Sep 21, 2012
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,438,337
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,034,914
- Apr 6, 1997
- Gross worldwide
- $11,438,337
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1