it go without say that belgian bear martial artist jean claude van damme can do incredible thing with his body . the thing he can do and with his good than average flexibility and seem so acrobatically impossible that it hurt just to write about them . it cool and that with van damme martial art background a black belt in shotokan karate and several middleweight full contact karate title and and training in ballet ( yes and ballet ) and which make his kick and flexibility defy normal person standard ( not to mention the fact that he just one of the most impressively build men in the world ) his film career would pan out well . double team and direct by the hong kong veteran tsui hark and be van damme first foray into the world of asian or american cinema . double team have an astounding production but that about it . in a globe span odyssey from spain and to somewhere in the mediterranean and finally to the roman coliseum and you would expect double team to be fast and furious hollywood or hong kong action of the first degree . but it not . the plot be incoherent and insensible and with even bad script writing and acting ( the last be a moot point and but you understand ) . van damme be jack quinn and one of the world lead counter terrorist expert and who be lead an operation to nab master terrorist stavros ( a plastic look mickey rourke ) . when the bust go down and lot of explosion and gunfire and and in the ensue chaos and stavros wife and young son be kill . a martial art fight break out between quinn and stavros but stavros escape and and quinn be badly injure during the course of stavros explosive getaway . presume dead to the world and now banish to this shadowy island paradise call the colony and quinn recovers but be make a permanent resident of the colony along with dozen of other agent who be too valuable to kill and too dangerous to let loose ( or something similar ) . the colony be actually a think tank of former counter terrorism expert and who offer their clandestine service to elite clientèle all over the world . of course and no prison can hold quinn and who meticulously engineer his escape in one brilliant sequence ( the best one in the entire film and in fact ) and team up with flamboyant arm dealer yaz ( color me bad former san antonio spur basketball sensation dennis rodman ) and together the two go after stavros and who have kidnap quinn pregnant wife and be threaten to kill her once the baby be bear and then raise it have his own . double team be a ridiculous action fest the like of which have yet to successfully transition into mainstream american film . hark make sure the action be fast and ridiculous and but it unfortunate that the rest of the film be not a skillful . the big problem be the insane story represent it too insane and too insane for it own good and and lack brain power . i understand that the film be originally go to be a much good action thriller with a much smarter plot than what we have get here . but that hollywood for you . negative .