Tarantino Heist - Art of War

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• Publié le: 08 août 2016
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Tarantino Heist - Art of Conflict

Director: Christian Duguay

Tarantino Heist - Art of Engagement

Writers: Wayne Beach and Simon Davis Barry

Cast: Wesley Snipes, Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer

Year: 2001

Time: 117 min

Before he ended up in jail for tax evasion and hunted the path of Steven Segal by making cut-rate skirmish movies in Bulgaria and Romania, Wesley Snipes did some expensive war nonsense. One of these films is The Art of Fighting directed by Canadian Christian Duguay, who is otherwise pro in this kind of (not)job (Screamers, Scanners 2, 3).

In this first installment of the trilogy, Snipes stars as Neil Motion picture, the UN version of James Bond while in the midst of an large-scale conspiracy involving a trade agreement between the U.S. and China. Our hero can’t trust anyone except for a cute Chinese translator, Julie Fang, poorly played by Marie Matiko. Also there’s always diabolical Donald Sutherland and Anne Archer, to which evidently no one explained that this isn’t another sequel of adventures of CIA analyst Jack Ryan.

There was definitely potential in The Art of Engagement. Snipes, undoubtedly has appeal, and if nothing else his forces act choreography is higher convincing than other, similar productions. He was quoted on one occasion ‘if a grown man of 80 kg hits you three times, you stay on the ground - no lifting.’ Pity that the screenplay is so trivial and full of clichés since The Art of Raid was produced with a very solid budget ($ 40 million), yet that seems to be the fate of all the films of Franchise company (Produce Carter, Battlefield Earth).

A.W.O.L./Lionheart

Director: Sheldon Letich

Writers: Sheldon Letich and Jean Claude Van Damme

Cast: Jean Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard

Year: 1990

Time: 105 min

'First I will beat the hell out of you and then I will fuck you’, the threat that Moustafa sent to Van Damme is reason enough to watch this movie.

Lyon Gaultier, the deserter within the French Foreign Legion comes to America to visit his dying brother (episode of some kind of drug dealing). After his brother’s death, his sister-in-ruling can’t support her schoolgirl and herself. Lyon realizes that, if he wants to earn some wealth for his brother's family, there is no choice however to engage in reckless and illegal fights.

First collaboration between Lettich and JCVD and immediately a assault. In Stallone style Van Damme is also a screenwriter for this inspiring anecdote. In order to attack the emotional finale our hero goes through the hell of street warfare (the craziest one is the fight in drained swimming pool in which Jean Claude is parading in leotards).

The street fights are perfectly executed, yet there’s a small anticlimax among the end of the movie that takes away Lionheart’s status of ‘Rocky for the poor.’ While the Italian stallion leaves the crucial and most pathetic fights for the last thirty minutes,

Lyon’s fearsome last enemy is Filipino Attila who looks better-quality like a big drunk than a deadly machine.