The read
A Balasaur Score of 71 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 82%, Metacritic 64/100. Scores higher than 76% of the 3,128 2000s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes82%
Metacritic64/100
587 audience votes
Key crew
- Mabrouk El MechriDirector
- Gast WaltzingOriginal Music Composer
- Christophe TurpinWriter
- Frédéric BenudisScreenplay
- Mabrouk El MechriScreenplay
Cast
- Jean-Claude Van DammeJ.C.V.D.
- François DamiensBruges
- Zinedine SoualemMan wearing Beret
- Karim BelkhadraWatchman
- Jean-François WolffThirty-year-old
- Anne PaulicevichTeller
- John FlandersEx-wife's Lawyer
- Janine HorsburghJCVD's Assistant
- Mourade ZeguendiVideo Club Client
- Valérie BodsonWidow at Film Budapest
- Hervé SogneLieutenant Smith
- Rock ChenAsian Director
