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Bullet Points: The Last Mercenary

Netflix is officially in the Jean-Claude Van Damme business with the release of 2021’s The Last Mercenary. For those of you who may have caught the trailer that Jean-Claude Van Damme shared on social media a...

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Bullet Points: Sudden Death

The Stanley Cup trophy was commissioned in 1892 and named after Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor General of Canada at the time. Stanley donated the trophy as an award for Canada’s top ranking amateur ice...

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Bullet Points: The Hard Corps

Looking back at my decades of Jean-Claude Van Damme fandom and I realize that his movies fall into one of four categories for me… There are the classic JCVD movies I have seen countless times like...

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Scene of the Week: Van Damme vs. Stallone

If you believe the Hollywood rumors, Jean-Claude Van Damme was offered a role in 2010’s The Expendables but Van Damme turned it down because in his view, the character that was pitched to him had no...

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Ryan Shoots First: Replicant

It’s The Best Van Damme Week Ever here at Bulletproof Action and it is a testament to Van Damme’s career as one of the most famous action stars that even after multiple week long celebrations over...

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Bullet Points: Hard Target

I could talk forever about John Woo’s Hard Target. Instead, I decided to do a quick review that highlights some of the reasons why I love this film.  The Most Dangerous Game: I enjoy Most Dangerous...

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Bullet Points: Legionnaire (1998)

Twelve years after making No Retreat, No Surrender, Van Damme tried his hand at playing a guy who does more than just yell a lot while kicking faces. This time he would step into some of...

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Bullet Points: Desert Heat (1999)

If I had to describe 1999’s Desert Heat in one word it would be “quirky”. The plot, inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, allowed Jean-Claude Van Damme to do a lot of the things you’d expect from...

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Bullet Points: Black Eagle

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a surprisingly versatile actor. I say versatile because he is effective and convincing as a protagonist or an antagonist. I say surprisingly, because like most action stars of the 80s and 90s,...