Had read some good things about this back upon initial release, always been meaning to watch it. Never been a particular fan of the Jean-Claude Van Damme movies, but after watching Timecop, I’m like, Okay, it’s time. And yeah, this is a pretty decent little drama, a new chapter in the JCVD playbook. It got me hooked pretty quick, even if it is spoke mostly in Belgiumium or whatever the fuck made-up words they speak in Belgium.
Just a day in the life of JCVD. Kinda. Just doing his thing, makin movies, payin the bills. But he’s getting older. Budgets getting smaller. Productions are getting...suspecter. Lots of alimony for his 4 wives from 5 marriages to deal with. Hey, he loves the ladies, can you blame him? The legal custody battle for his daughter is not going well for him though. It’s a hard reality. He goes back to his home country of Belgium, take a little break. But some money issues. He hits the post office bank after arriving in town, needs to conduct some important money transactions. But things go sideways. It’s a sad thing to see when a man can’t get no more FunBucks, or whatever the heck the money is in Belgium.
I really dug Nicolas Fkn Cage’s slightly documentaryish The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and this is absolutely its precursor by 14 years. And it’s a timeless tale, of rising stardom and falls and if you’re lucky, a hope at redemption. I think a few extra fictionalities were added to the JCVD past, there’s an interesting 4th-wall breakage that goes into some details that may or may not have been embellished, it’s ultimately a fiction so, you know. So despite a few kinda disjointed edits that leave you like What the Fuck just happened there?, it is a surprisingly good dramatic actings and playout of a rather fucked situation at a post office. Or Bank. But I think it was a post office that did banking. Fucking Belgium and their crazinesses. And kudos to them, not really the ending you’re expecting. It’s pretty decent.
