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TIFF '08 Movie Review: JCVD
Sure, sure, it's faint praise to say that JCVD is the high point of Jean Claude Van Damme's career but how about this: Of the two or three hundred films I've seen so far this year - one day I'll start keeping an accurate tally - this is my favorite. It's smart, it's funny, it features a few stellar action sequences, it's impeccably made and allowed to speak his native language Van Damme turns in a dead solid performance. Seriously: this is not a camp film, it's not a guilty pleasure. However you want to judge it, this is one damn good film.
So, if you're a clever sort you may be thinking to yourself "Aha! A Van Damme movie titled with Van Damme's initials. I'll bet there's something to that." Well, go get yourself a cookie, you clever lad, you are absolutely correct. Think of JCVD as a Charlie Kaufman movie with added punching - a self reflective, quasi autobiographical dissection of celebrity in general and the star's own life, in very painful detail.
Van Damme plays Van Damme, warts and all. We start on the set of his latest direct to video effort - an intro that features one hell of an impressive single take, four minute action sequence - before veering into other aspects of his life. His real life money troubles are in there. His real life drug problems are in there. And, most surprisingly, the real life custody battle - which he loses, in no small part, based on his daughter's testimony that her friends laugh at her whenever her father appears on television - is in there, too.
Van Damme, clearly, is sick of his life. He hates the way his career has gone, he hates what he has been reduced to, and he's desperate for a change.
For the complete review and more, visit showcase.ca.
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