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Van Damme's best role?


i've been a van damme fan since i was a kid and i've amways thought of him as a good actor but this movie really upped the ante for me. jean claude almost always plays the good guy in his movies but for once he finally played a bad guy and totally blew me away with how good he played the villian. i really hope he plays the villian in future roles he's a great as a hero but a teriffic villan.

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i'll have to check those out thanks for the tip off

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Van Damme has played the villain several times, and when he has done that, he has excelled.
Black Eagle's role is one of his most delicious villain one. Watch the movie, buddy, if you ain't watched it yet!

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His best roles are as villains - seems like he knows how to play them, but the good guys - these just don't exist in real life. His best as a good guy was probably Cyborg, a very good movie for it's budget and story, he didn't say much there and looked rather good.

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Legionnaire was probably his best, it was an old fashioned adventure movie

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Van damme was awesome as replicant when rooker beats *beep* out of the him cause he thought he hit the kid Van Dammes face made me feel really sorry for him.

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Van damme was awesome as replicant when rooker beats *beep* out of the him cause he thought he hit the kid Van Dammes face made me feel really sorry for him.


I have to admit, that scene really bothered me alos! I have to give it to VanDamme - I was really having a hard time watching the first half of this because VanDamme kept acting so confused and getting hit for it.

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His recent films defenitly show a darker side to him. check them out.

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Maby not his best role but this movie marks his best performance.Very good acting on a hard job of 2 so different characters.

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This really is van damme's best act of all time. Timecop was good too, but this really is the best of van damme. Not the first time he plays two roles, he did it in maximum risk and double impact too. I have maximum risk, it's quite good, but the replicant is better.

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He's had a few roles that I think are great, this one included. I can't choose a favorite though.

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Easily his best work, not best movie but best performance.

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Actually, just a little trivia tidbit you guys may actually already know, Van Damme's first movie role was as a bad guy as the guy inside the suit in "Predator"! (1st one, with Arnold). The thing is right after he started the shoot he was offered an on screen part in a different movie and he couldn't just quit Predator, so he purposely kept messing up his moves in the suit so they would fire him and they did. LOL. Pretty cool.

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Yes, reportedly the role was Bloodsport and he even faked passing out numerous times.

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Have you seen the movie Black Eagle? I believe that is what it is called. It is one of Jean Claude Van Dammes first movies he did and he played a villian in that film. He is good as a bad guy and I like it too. Great actor as well.

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Best movie? no Best performance? Top three at least He portrayed both the innocent and childlike replicant and the psychopath perfectly. It actually looked like two different people.

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It was a really good performance from him, it's a shame the script was not on par with his efforts. To be honest it was a little disconcerting watching such a strong performance that was truly out of place in such poor film.

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