JCVD (2008)

JCVD: Directed by Mabrouk El Mechri. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Valérie Bodson, Hervé Sogne, Rock Chen. Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages situation and reflects about his life during it.

“JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a struggling B-movie action actor trying to maintain some artistic integrity despite everyone around him. He has custody problems and returned from family court in LA. He has been sleepless for 2 days. He goes into the bank and shots ring out. Heu0026#39;s taken hostage but the cops think that heu0026#39;s the hostage taker.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJCVD shows some acting chop or heu0026#39;s tapping into his inner self. Itu0026#39;s so fascinating that he is such a mess. Itu0026#39;s also a mess that isnu0026#39;t unrealistic. There is a bit of action but thatu0026#39;s not the heart of this movie. It is to watch JCVD break down his public image and then break down his character. The movie could use an A-list actor to be the bad guy as his foil. Nevertheless this is one of the greatest performance from JCVD ever.”