Main Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alan Scarfe, Alonna Shaw, Philip Chan
Release Year: 1991
Country: US
Run Time: 107 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Jean-Claude Van Damme proves that two cracked heads are better than one in Double Impact. Van Damme plays twins Chad and Alex, who were separated at birth when their parents were brutally murdered by members of a Hong Kong criminal cartel. Incredibly both Chad and Alex have grown up to become world-class martial arts experts. Chad is a snobbish Californian karate instructor, while Alex is a cigar-smoking smuggler in Hong Kong. The two are brought back together by the family bodyguard Frank Avery (Geoffrey Lewis) to team up to avenge their parents' murder. But stacked against them is a thoroughly nasty, over-the-top assassin named Moon (martial arts film great Bolo Yeung). ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Cory Everson - Kara; Bolo Yeung - Moon; Andy Armstrong - Paul Wagner; Paul Aylett - Baby Alex; Georges Bejue - Thug Who Mauls Danielle; Donn Berdahl - Karate Instructor; Chan Siu Sing - Dockworker; Chan Siu Wah - Klimax Klub Gangster; Simon Cheung - Hong Kong Marine Police; Ching Wai Chung - Card Playing Guard; Chow Kwok Po - 2nd Chinese Smuggler; Eugene Choy - Mr. Chen; Jack Gilardi, Jr. - 1st Karate Student; David Ho - Big Thug Outside Lab; Rita Lau - Hostess with Frank; Dave Lea - 2nd Karate Student; Lee Bing Chiu - 2nd Triad Thug; Lee Tat Chiu - 1st Triad Thug; Leo Lee - Dockworker; Christopher Leung - Crewman on Alex's Boat; Roland Lor - Klimax Klub Manager; Peter Malota - Body Guard With Spurs; Shelley Michelle - Student; Ng Kwok Kai - Mr. Ngyuen; Eric Ng - Klimax Klub Gangster; Shum Kin Sang - Hong Kong Marine Police; Stasha; Alicia Stevenson - Baby Chad; Julie Strain - Student; Tam Chum To - Klimax Klub Gangster; Tsang Sing Kwok - 2nd Gateman; Sarah Jane Varley - Katherine Wagner; Wong Chi Kin - 3rd Triad Thug; Wong Chung Ching - Walkie Talkie Thug; Wu Fong Lung - Chinese Nurse; Yu Wai Keung - 3rd Chinese Smuggler; Galen Yuen - Smuggler; Sarah Yuen - Nun at Orphanage; John Cheung - Gateman for Triad; Kamel Krifa - Mah Jong Manager; James F. Tarzia; Evan Lurie - Klimax Klub Bouncer; Jennifer Stone - Klimax Klub Hostess
Credit
Michael Okowita - Art Director, Kamel Krifa - Associate Producer, Dr. Charles Wang - Associate Producer, Terry Carr - Co-producer, Sheldon Lettich - Co-producer, Joseph Porro - Costume Designer, Karyn Wagner - Costume Designer, Sheldon Lettich - Director, David Blewitt - Editor, Mark Conte - Editor, Arthur Kempel - Composer (Music Score), John J. Moore - Production Designer, Joel A. Douglas - Production Designer, Richard H. Kline - Cinematographer, Jean-Claude Van Damme - Producer, Ashok Amritraj - Producer, Moshe Diamant - Producer, Charles Layton - Producer, Rick Nathanson - Producer, Evzen Kolar - Producer, Suzette Sheets - Set Designer, Vic Armstrong - Stunts, John Cheung - Stunts, Jean-Claude Van Damme - Screenwriter, Peter Krikes - Screenwriter, Sheldon Lettich - Screenwriter, Steve Meerson - Screenwriter, Ray Colcord - Additional Music, James Seidelman - Additional Editing
Van Damme plays Alex and Chad Wagner, twins who are separated as babies when their parents are killed by a crime boss, in a shooting. The parents were followed in a car by a the chinese mafia, and contacted their friend, who comes too late, finding the two parents killed, driving off all but the ringleader of the mob, and one of the two siblings in the car. The other had been carried off by a survivor in the car. Now 25 years later they meet for the first time and join forces to exact revenge on the people who took their parents' lives. They find that their guardian is not their dad, and that they must work together to find Moon, the crime boss, and avenge their parents' death.
Double Impact opened on August 9, 1991 to mixed critical response where most critics cited it as yet another mindless action movie that only had the gimmick of two Jean-Claude Van Dammes. Others gave the film recognition for slick production values.[1]
