"Au revoir, fucker!"
I totally forgot how "serious" Nowhere to Run tries to be but it is still a fun van Damme flick. This time around he tries to show us his acting bone. Being so serious, no amazing kicks and no split however he does peak on a lady getting naked and ready to take a shower. We even get a little girl telling her mum that the Muscles from Brussels has a huge dong. Still can't believe that really happened. And let us not forget about the other Culkin who instead of laying traps for the bad guys, just lures him to a horse to get kicked in the head.
Anyway Nowhere to Run is less silly van Damme flick that tries to hard to be really serious but it is entertaining. You get a great motorcycle chase, you get van Damme telling everyone he's from Quebec, we are getting emotional moments, we are getting great funny lines and we have the beautiful Rosanna Arquette as van Damme's love interest and I'm happy she didn't lose her house.
Not your typical JCVD movie. There's hardly any martial arts used in this one and even the fight scenes are very limited for a 90's Van Damme flick. The story was your typical tearjerker "bully billionaire land developer vs. poor single mother" that has been rehashed countless times. This one wasn't bad (by JCVD standards) but certainly ranks nowhere close to being one of his better ones. Those action guys from the 90's - like Steven Seagal, JCVD, Stallone, etc - should have stuck with what worked instead of trying to be something or some guy they weren't. Romance and drama never worked for any of them, and this movie is proof again of that. Watch this only if you're like super bored...and there's nothing else to watch. (I mean, literally, like every other media channel is out and all the streaming services have crashed and even Tubi has cleared its entire library of everything except this ONE REMAINING MOVIE and you've washed every stitch of clothes that you own, and bathed your pets, and shampoo'd your hair, and washed every dish in the house, and vaccuum'd the carpet until the vaccuum is sucking up nothing except carpet fibers, and all your wisdom teeth have been extracted and you literally can't move from where you're sitting, and this starts streaming inexplicably on your device. It's okay to watch it under those circumstances, but anything else, and you're just a sucker for punishment...)
Shout by Jack WebsterBlockedParent2021-12-30T23:16:09Z
Shows that there can be so much greatness still inside those who’ve done bad. Not often the case, but it is here with Van Damme kicking ass in style and putting on a heartfelt performance. I would like to see more of his films after watching this.