Who would imagine that JCVD (short for Jean-Claude Van Damme), Van Damme’s come-back movie, would be one of the action star’s best films?  Directed by El Mechri, JCVD begins with JCVD bashing and shooting up his enemies in a new film he is making. 

The film begins with Van Damme’s life collides with a real life hold-up in his city of Brussels.  Cameras zoom in on the hostage situation and Van Damme is forced to deal with his real life and problems on camera for the first time.  Complaining after to the director that he can’t do these kind of long takes any more (I am 47, he says) Van Damme is not afraid of parodying himself (he is broke and has child custody problems) or his past films.  The result is an earnest, very funny and still action packed film that will still amuse his fans.