Legionnaire

The best Van Damme movie, for me.

I picked up this movie by chance, right at the beginning, and I watched it. I liked the style, the atmosphere, and the fact is that the film turned out to be very good. The film begins when a boxer, who should have lost a fight, decides not to comply with the agreement, harming some mobsters, who go after him to kill him. In order to escape and hide, he enlists in the Foreign Legion and goes to Morocco, where he will have to survive a commission in times of war.

Jean Claude Van Damme really surprised me with his work, completely outside of what he has accustomed us to. I don't even like this actor very much, and I really enjoyed watching him work in this film! It is, for me, the best film of Van D...

Jean-Claude Van Damme adventure in the Moroccan desert

In 1925, a boxer in Marseille (Van Damme) makes some big enemies and so joins the French Foreign Legion in which hes assigned to Morocco during the Rif war to defend a desert outpost against Abd el Krims Berber guerillas.

Legionnaire (1998) begins like The Cotton Club (1984) before settling into a plot reminiscent of The Dirty Dozen (1967) with the North African milieu of March or Die (1977) or Khartoum (1966), not to mention an ending similar to The Alamo (1960).

Like The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), this is a movie involving the challenges of sweaty men in the vast, beautiful desert. As such, dont look for many, if any, women in the proper...