'Double Impact' (1991) – Sheldon Lettich.

Made during the halcyon daze for the beautifully buff Belgian beefcake, as the early 90s would be an auspicious decade for the drop-dead handsome head-knocker! Sheldon Lettich's adrenalized, action-packed gun-fu extravaganza 'Double Impact' would have been a knock-out, high-kicking martial arts epic with just the ONE, Jean-Claude Van Damme, but TWO of 'em makes for a double-barrelled, twins-fisted fight frenzy of super-bellicose insanity! With 'Kickboxer' champion JCVD energetically playing estranged brothers, Alex and Chad, their combined impact might just prove TWO much for sinister Hong Kong gangster, Zhang (Philip Chan)to handle!

The enjoyably noisome, Hong Kong-set shoot 'em up remains a solid fan favourite for good reason. The outrageously limber, JCVD stretches dramatic muscles alongside his pictorially perfect pectorals in this blissfully bloody, John Woo-inspired action-fest. Displaying more than his matinée idol good looks, the charismatic chop socky stud is clearly having a ball playing the gruff, cigar chomping hoodlum, Alex against the fey-looking, Chad whose pink shorts and pristine preppy sports shirt belies a rather devastating roundhouse kick!

Matching his fleet-footed star, director, Sheldon Lettich is on equally limber form, making the most of this boisterous comic book yarn of infant siblings separated by the evil machinations of duplicitous businessman Nigel Griffith (Alan Scarfe). Griffith's hypertrophic henchman, Moon (Bolo Yueng)proves himself a malevolently neck-snapping nemesis, doubly menacing with his pronounced facial scarring and dead milky eye! 'Double Impact' remains a spectacularly kinetic, vertebra vanquishing Kick-fighter that is certainly no less exhilarating today than when I first rented it on VHS. Capable director, Sheldon Lettich redlines the sinewy sibling action, excitingly maintaining a bullet pace, delivering double the Van Dammage in gonzo 90s action classic Double Impact!