Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Stephane Audran, Paul Ben-Victor, Zach Grenier

Director: Ringo Lam

Summary: Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the south of France to the streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's girlfriend...

After making several violent Hong Kong action films in the style that's come to be known as heroic bloodshed, Ringo Lam came to Hollywood to make his first American film with Belgian martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme. MAXIMUM RISK, like Van Damme's previous DOUBLE IMPACT, is the story of twin brothers. Unlike the earlier film--in which he played brothers with contrasting characters--here he's a French policeman, Alain Moreau, who takes on the identity of his dead brother, Mikhail. They were separated at birth when their mother, Chantal, played by veteran French film actress Stephane Audran, gave one up for adoption to a Russian diplomat. He grew up to become a member of the new Russian Mafia operating out of the Little Odessa section of New York City. When Mikhail is murdered in France after a wild chase through the streets, Alain goes to New York, where he's assumed to be Mikhail by everyone from the local Russian crime boss to his brother's beautiful girlfriend, Alex (Natasha Henstridge) Working with a seemingly unlimited budget for car crashes, Lam stages the action scenes with a kinetic flair and smartly knits them together with the help of sharp editing by Bill Pankow.

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Aspect Ratio:	2.40 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region B
Subtitles:	Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Hebrew, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Czech, Norwegian, Italian, Portuguese, English, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, Polish
Year:	1996
Release Date:	August 25, 2008
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	S B R 26092
Keywords:	Action, Risk, General, Maximum, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure