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Legionnaire (1998)

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Calificación de los usuarios: 4.6/10 (4,385 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Peter MacDonald
Writers (WGA):
Sheldon Lettich (story) &
Jean-Claude Van Damme (story) ...
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Release Date:
3 diciembre 1998 (Australia) más view trailer
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Drama | War más
Frase comercial:
From The Producer Of The Crow And The Director Of Rambo III más
Plot:
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts... más | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination más
Comentarios de los usuarios:
Van Damme does drama más

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jean-Claude Van Damme ... Alain Lefevre

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ... Luther
Steven Berkoff ... Sgt. Steinkampf
Nicholas Farrell ... Mackintosh
Jim Carter ... Lucien Galgani
Ana Sofrenovic ... Katrina
Daniel Caltagirone ... Guido Rosetti
Joseph Long ... Maxim
Mario Kalli ... René Galgano
Joe Montana ... Julot
Kim Rømer ... Capt. Rousselot
Anders Peter Bro ... Lt. Chathier

Paul Kynman ... Rolf Bruner
Vincent Pickering ... Viktor
Takis Triggelis ... Cpl. Metz
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Additional Details

También conocida como:
Legionario (Argentina) (video title) [es]
Soldado de fortuna (Spain) [es]
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MPAA:
Rated R for battle violence.
Duración:
98 min
País:
USA
Idioma:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 más
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Plot holes: Lefevre is photographed for the machine gun demonstration against his will, thus leading to his discovery. One of the few guarantees afforded legionnaires is anonymity, and it is specifically forbidden for a legionnaire to be photographed without explicit permission. más
Quotes:
Luther: I came out here to find a life. Now I realize I've been looking in the wrong place. It ain't out here.
[puts hand over heart]
Luther: It's in here.
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Movie Connections:
Version of March or Die (1977) más
Soundtrack:
Mon légionnaire más

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Van Damme does drama, 10 March 2005
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Author: AwesomeWolf de Australia

I found 'Legionnaire' for $10 on a rack labelled "Movies that should never have been made!". I had never seen 'Legionnaire', but on the same rack was the Arnie classic 'Conan the Barbarian'. I decided that whoever was running the store obviously didn't know what they were talking about - I'm sure Arnie will forgive them - and so I picked up 'Legionnaire'. If I had known it had a lot more of Jean-Claude Van Damme acting rather than Van Damme beating the **** out of bad guys, I probably would have avoided it. Good thing I gave it a go, as it was actually pretty good.

Van Damme plays Alain Lefevre, a boxer paid to take a dive by a mobster. Alain and his girl-friend have other ideas, and plan to flee France and go to America. After giving his opponent a good butt-kicking, and enraging the mobsters, Alain ends up being chased by police, and finds himself in the French Foreign Legion and deployed to Africa to crush an insurgency in a French colony.

Funnily enough, it is pretty much 'Lionheart' reversed. Other than that, 'Legionnaire' feels more like a war movie than a Van Damme movie. Then again, you can tell Van Damme co-wrote it: He gives himself a lot of acting time, and not much arse-kicking time, but then you have various action clichés popping up and the odd one-liner here and there.

Van Damme's martial-arts skills are not showcased here as much as in his other movies. There are a few boxing scenes, and maybe one kick in the entire movie. The rest of the action is standard war stuff: explosions and gun-play (circa 1924, to be precise).

'Legionnaire' is surprisingly good in the end. Van Damme gets to do something different for a change, and I'll give him credit for it. It is more dramatic than most of his other movies, but that should not stop Van Damme fans - and even non-fans of Van Damme - from seeing it - 7/10

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