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Hard Target <\/strong><\/em>(1993)<\/p>\n Director:\u00a0 John Woo<\/strong><\/p>\n Screenplay:\u00a0 Chuck Pfarrer<\/strong><\/p>\n Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Willie C. Carpenter, Kasi Lemmons, Robert Pavlovich, Ted Raimi, Chuck Pfarrer\u00a0<\/strong>and Wilford Brimley<\/strong><\/p>\n Tagline: Don’t hunt what you can’t kill.<\/em><\/p>\n The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Natasha Binder (Butler) has come to New Orleans to find her estranged father, who is a homeless vet.\u00a0 When several thugs attempt to mug Natasha, Chance Boudreaux (Van Damme) comes to her rescue.\u00a0 Natasha then hires Boudreaux to assist her in her quest.<\/p>\n What neither Natasha nor Boudreaux know is that Natasha’s father was murdered by rich hunters who paid Emil Fouchon (Henriksen) for the opportunity to track and kill a human.\u00a0 When Fouchon learns that Boudreaux and Natasha are getting close to discovering him, he brings in a team to take them out.<\/p>\n Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n There are some very over the top moments (Van Damme grabs a snake then hits it in the head to knock it out, he stands on a motorcycle as it roars into a truck launching Van Damme over the crash, etc.) and lots of explosions, fire, slow motion that John Woo makes work. (Or maybe I just accept the them because I like the rest of the movie so much).<\/p>\n Universal brought in Sam Raimi to be on set to assist John Woo.\u00a0 Their concern was it was his first Hollywood film and he didn’t speak English.\u00a0 Raimi appears in a cameo.<\/p>\n Kurt Russell was considered at one point for the role that ultimately went to JCVD.<\/p>\n In the scene where Lance Henriksen’s coat catches fire, it wasn’t supposed to, but did.\u00a0 Henriksen never broke character and the accident appears in the final film.<\/p>\n JCVD was the star of the film and played the part off-screen.\u00a0 He had script control and definite ideas of how scenes should be shot. According to Lance Henriksen it started as a JCVD vehicle, but as filming continued it became clear it was a John Woo film.<\/p>\n Arnold Vosloo has never been better.<\/p>\n Hard Target <\/strong><\/em>(1993) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n Hard Target (1993) Director:\u00a0 John Woo Screenplay:\u00a0 Chuck Pfarrer Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Arnold Vosloo, Willie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35403,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35399\/revisions\/35403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\")
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