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Hard Target

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Time Out says

Sporting hair extensions and a Cajun accent, Van Damme plays Chance Boudreaux, a drifter who comes to the aid of one Natasha Binder (Butler) as she searches for her transient father in New Orleans. He turns up dead, the luckless prey in a deadly bloodsport: a clandestine safari through the urban jungle in which the very rich hunt and kill derelicts. Matters improve considerably once the hunt is on - the movie's firepower would shame the devil. It's what Hollywood wanted Woo for: bigger, brighter explosions. That we can hope for more is evinced by the film's most memorable sequence: a wounded black man stumbles through a busy main street begging for help, ignored by everyone except his hunters. As the man becomes resigned to his fate, Woo homes in on his face in three arresting jump-cut freeze-frames. The scene doesn't just betray an alien viewpoint, it distils an undertow of social alienation more sharply than any American director would have dreamed of.
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Release Details

  • Duration:97 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:John Woo
  • Screenwriter:Chuck Pfarrer
  • Cast:
    • Jean-Claude Van Damme
    • Lance Henriksen
    • Yancy Butler
    • Arnold Vosloo
    • Wilford Brimley
    • Kasi Lemmons
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