JCVD (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.5/10   

Director:

Mabrouk El Mechri

Escritores:

Mabrouk El Mechri (scenario)
Frédéric Benudis (collaboration)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

4 junio 2008 (France)

Género:

Crimen | Drama

Frase comercial:

Be Aware

Plot:

Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are...

Plot Keywords:

Movie Star | Criminal | Belgium | Shot In The Head | Police

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A pleasant surprise

Reparto

Jean-Claude Van Damme	...	J.C.V.D.
François Damiens	...	Bruges
Zinedine Soualem	...	L'homme au bonnet
Karim Belkhadra	...	Le vigile
Jean-François Wolff	...	Le trentenaire
Anne Paulicevich	...	La guichetière
Liliane Becker	...	Mère JCVD
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
François Beukelaers	...	Père JCVD
John Flanders	...	Prosecuting attorney
Saskia Flanders	...	J.C.V.D.'s daughter
Dean Gregory	...	Realisateur de Tobey Wood
Kim Hermans	...	Prisoner in kickboxing outfit
Janine Horsburgh	...	JCVD assistant
Vincent Lecuyer
Raphaëlle Lubansu
Steve Preston	...	Accessoiriste JCVD
Paul Rockenbrod	...	Tobey Wood
Alan Rossett	...	Bernstein
Norbert Rutili
Jesse Joe Walsh	...	Jeff
Leslie Woodhall	...	Prison visitor
Mourade Zeguendi

También conocida como:

Codename: JCVD (USA)
JCVD - The Movie (USA)
Le rois des Belges (Belgium: French title)
Project: JCVD (USA)
Van Dammage (USA)
JCVD (Argentina) (festival title) (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some violence.

Duración:

97 min

País:

Belgium | Luxembourg | France

Idioma:

Francés | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | France:U | USA:R | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | UK:15 | Finland:K-15 | Netherlands:12 | Sweden:11 | Singapore:NC-16 | New Zealand:M

Locaciones de Filmación:

Brussels, Belgium

Compañía:

Samsa Film

Trivialidades:

The opening intro scene was filmed at the end of the shoot for insurance reasons. It was rehearsed over an entire night and shot 4 or 5 takes.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): In the court room the attorney says, "How does this actor play Death? Let me count the ways: mangled under the wheels of a truck, strangulation, fracturing the skull, taking out the tibula..." There is no anatomic structure named tibula. The lower leg is made of two bones, the tibia and fibula. It is a common mistake of people who do not know anatomy to say tibula.

Citas:

Policier: Central to Unit 27. Jean-Claude Van Damme's robbing a post office. I need back-up.

Conexiones de Película:

References The Karate Kid (1984)

Banda de Sonido:

Hard Times

A pleasant surprise

JCVD is an excellent surprise. It's a kind of dramatic comedy where Jean-Claude Van Damme plays with great conviction his own role in life. This starting postulate, to tell a passage of the life of a movie-star on the decline by the person himself, makes the movie sail between fiction and autobiography. This original and ambiguous concept propels the script in a tasty, funny and tragic reality/fiction realm. One can think sometimes of Pulp Fiction.

The famous movie-star, Jean-Claude, is surprisingly right and touching. Van Damme plays here the role of his life, in all the senses of the words. There will be a before and an after JCVD. The central monologue of the film, a rare feat of ingenuity, a long one-shot sequence of the star made up of his doubts and his anguishes, is bound to become a classic.

The film is however not perfect. The flashbacks are well carried out but some scenes seen twice can be somewhat long and would have been improved by being shortened a bit the second time around. This saved time would have made it possible to develop the supporting characters, like the police chief, a bit more. Speaking of supporting characters, those are somewhat caricatures and with one dimension.

JCVD reveals itself as an excellent surprise. Far from being a hollow marketing ploy, this film, probably the best of Van Damme, is a true success that deserves to be seen.

The question now is what will Van Damme do next?