Double Team
Director: Tsui Hark
Genre: Thriller, Action, Martial arts, Buddy film, Action/Adventure, Action Thrillers
Year: 1997
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke, Paul Freeman
Double Team is a 1997 American action film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark in his American directorial debut and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman and Mickey Rourke. Van Damme plays counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn, who is assigned to bring an elusive terrorist known as Stavros (Mickey Rourke) to justice. Things become personal when Stavros kidnaps Quinn's pregnant wife after his own lover and child were killed in an assassination attempt that went awry. Aiding Quinn in his rescue is his flamboyant weapons dealer Yaz (Dennis Rodman).
A critical and commercial failure, the film was also nominated for and "won" three Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Supporting Actor (Rodman), Worst New Star (also Rodman) and Worst Screen Couple (Rodman and Van Damme).
Having successfully completed his final mission three years prior, which was to retrieve a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros (Rourke), government anti-terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn (Van Damme) is relaxing by his pool in South France with Kathryn, his pregnant wife.
Quinn is approached by a government representative who tells him that
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