When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
Jean-Claude Van Damme Arnold Vosloo Lance Henriksen Yancy Butler Sven-Ole Thorsen Wilford Brimley Ted Raimi Kasi Lemmons Willie C. Carpenter Eliott Keener Chuck Pfarrer Robert Apisa Douglas Forsythe Rye Mike Leinert Lenore Banks Barbara Tasker Randy Cheramie Robert Pavlovich Marco St. John Joe Warfield Jeanette Kontomitras Tom Lupo Jules Sylvester David Efron Codie Scott
Ron Bartlett George Simpson John Dunn Michael C. Casper Donald Flick Curt Schulkey Geoffrey G. Rubay Elliott Koretz James Bolt John Pospisil Lou Kleinman
Operación caceria, 終極標靶, Hard Target - Harte Ziele
Basically two types of people, as I see it.
Type one: Thinks the funniest part of this movie is JCVD humanely punching a rattlesnake in the head to knock it out. These people are usually harmless. They go about their lives and are missed when they pass but on the rare occasion when they look to the stars all they see are some spots of light in the night sky.
Type two: thinks the funniest part is Wilford Brimley as a Cajun moonshiner cheering in slow motion as he rides a horse. These people are artists, dreamers. The round pegs in the square holes. These people have the capacity for profound good but also for unthinkable evil. You can hate…
"Poor people get bored, too." or "You are a fucking buffalo."
Such a great showcase for Woo, even in its bastardized release form* an exercise in style and excess, with his slow-fast-slow cutting fully intact and a tonal register that has room for both devastating regret and snake-punching. There's also a tantalizing predatory shock-capital institutional-failure streak, with rich scumbags Most-Dangerous-Game-ing it up in an economically depressed New Orleans during a police strike. If Woo's American films were coming out today, they'd be heralded as the unreconstructed works of an old master.
*There are four versions I know of: the 96-minute theatrical release; the 100-minute "International" version (restoring basic cuts for violence); the 116-minute rough "Director's Cut" (Woo's preferred version, temped…
My mama named me Will, because she filled one out after she had me.
Action masterpiece. They don't make em like they used to.
Just rewatching a couple of my fav movies today to celebrate me making it to the magical age of 39. 🥳
John Woo is literally the only director who can do JCVD's mullet justice. So silly, yet so great. This movie rocks!
Fun times revisiting this with Michelle.
JCVD stars in John Woo's Hollywood directorial debut as a drifter hired by a hottie to investigate what happened to her daddy and in the process gets caught in the middle of a most dangerous game with a gang of psychotic fucks lead by Lance Henriksen and his right-hand man Arnold Vosloo. Manhunt. Dog tags. Yancy before the crack. JCVD's earring. JCVD's mullet. Payphone. Purse snatch. Switchblade. Going all Kickboxer on some motherfuckers. The picket line. Day labor. Union dues. Suitcase of memories. Sad news. Zartan. Scissors. Bishop without Ripley. Nut punch. Police harassment. Piano keys. Massage interruptus. X-rays. Sassy cop. Letter opener. Peep hole headshot. Money belt. Cemetery fun. Desperate plea. Roper's last stand. Body bag goodbye. Exploding windshield.…
90’s Hollywood finest musical. Just a marvel of intelligent staging. Also no film from JCVD heyday quite figure out so well what to do with his not quite belonging presence.
I believe it was Hitchcock who said a great movie only needs three things: denim jackets, bitchin’ mullets, and lethal roundhouse kicks.
When Jean-Claude Van Damme punches that snake, Classic.
The first big American studio film directed by an Asian, John Woo's Hollywood directorial debut is lite-Woo with ton of flaws but it still goes hard, especially in the third act. It's definitely Van Damme's best film. The action sequences are so well-staged, it's poetic. Bob Murawski steals the show.
Can you believe I had this at a mere 3 stars before? Further prove that you can't take anything I say serious! This has so much slow-motion, the best mullet in the history of cinema and some super Sick action.
Also some of the best lines are said here..
YB: What kind of name is Chance?
JCvD: My mamma took one.
Point her titties north
Don't make me look bad in front of my dogs
A great and super cheesy John Woo/JCvD flick.. I love it!
Watched with Michelle, which is always the best!
I might be slightly biased due to my hormones at the time, but I truly believe that the make up/fashion of the early 90’s is the pinnacle of sexy. Yancy Butler in this is hella fine…the perfect blend of 80% Claire Forlani and 20% Kathy Ireland. And yet, she doesn’t hold a candle to Van Damme’s greasy mullet 🤤.
Hong Kong director John Woo made his mark back in his native country with hits such as The Killer and Hard Boiled starring Chow Yun-Fat back in the late 1980s. It wasn't long until he arrived in Hollywood that he unleashed his brand of Western-based high -octane violence and heavy-handed gunplay to the masses. 1993's Hard Target was Woo's U.S debut and his first film that starred predominantly Western-based actors. The character of Chance was originally going to be played by Kurt Russell, famed for Escape From New York and Big Trouble In Little China, in the main lead role, but he was busy with other projects, and thus was unavailable. Woo then turned to Universal Pictures first choice in…
