Double Team

I spent a good chunk of my life making fun of this movie. How could you not really? Van Damme and Dennis Rodman? This movie flat out deserves to be ridiculed. It quickly started to build a reputation as one of the worst movies ever and if any of our friends actually confessed to liking it, we would usually just stomp on their throat until they admitted their mistake. However a strange thing happened a couple of weeks ago. I actually sat down and watched the movie...and it was kind of awesome.

I can't believe I'm saying it but it's true. Double Team was just a little awesome. It was stupid yes...but fuck was it ever entertaining. I would also like to believe that the movie had no idea how ridiculous it actually was. That just makes it so much better.

The movie is so off the wall fucking insane that you just have to keep watching, if only to see just what the hell is going to happen next. Van Damme faces down a tiger in a stadium full of land mines while defending a baby. That's just a taste. There is tons more weird shit in there that I would never dare spoil. Double Team is something to experience, not read about.

Dennis Rodman is as expected, pretty terrible. However his presence just adds to the overall fucked upedness of the movie, so you can't even fault him too much. The action is ok, although there does seem to be a lot of slow-motions jumping away from explosions. In fact I remember one scene where it happened like three times in a row.

I could not believe I enjoyed this movie as much as I did. It wasn't because of the high quality of the thing, just the bizarreness of it all. It's just damn entertaining.

7/10