The Triumphant Return of Ja Rule

This post has nothing to do with Ja Rule, simply that I think I should make sure that everyone remembers him and how awesome he is.


What this post is actually about is Part 2 of the Critical Film Analysis series. This week I'll be critically analyzing the great Jean Claude Van Damme movie Hard Target. I'm not going to bother in describing the plot like I did with Surviving the Game because I'm too lazy to right now. What I will tell you is some of the great portions of the film. For one, you have a intense mullet from Van Damme. I'm pretty sure he could be on the first line of some hockey team with this hair. Secondly, you have Wilford Brimley. Yes, the Quaker Oats guy and the "Diabeetus" guy is in this movie as "Uncle Douvee" a moon shining old bastard who happens to be a marksman with a bow and arrow.

It gets better though. The main bad guy is Lance Henriksen and he has a host of henchman including the mummy from The Mummy and it also has Sven-Ole Thorsen who is basically the journeyman of movie henchman and random badguys. He happened to be in another classic, The Running Man. The action ranges from pretty good to pretty damn insane. Sequences include lots of slow-mo, an SUV exploding from a couple pistol shots, and really stupid slow motion jumps. You may have noticed I mentioned slow motion twice...well there is a lot of it.

My favorite scene though is when after Brimley has been shot...or maybe it was stabbed, and Van Damme is raging, he lets out one of his signature kicks and during this really long kick he has 'flashbacks/visions' of all the transgressions made against him throughout the movie. The bizarre part is there are things that he had no way of seeing that he is evidently 'remembering.' Of course there is the ending which is really funny in a stupid way. I'll let youtube show you what I mean. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVxzDI0w4gE

In the end, this is probably the best movie ever.