Monday, January 14, 2019

MVD Entertainment Group Bestows Rewind Collection Status On Director Sheldon Lettich's Double Impact ... Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Ready On Apr. 23


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jean-Claude Van Damme … double the fire power, double the action and, dare we say it, double the impact!!   

Fans may we have your attention!   Apr. 23 can’t come soon enough as MVD Entertainment Group has picked that date for a new Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack addition to its popular Rewind Collection line of products … and that would be director Sheldon Lettich’s 1991 martial arts thriller, Double Impact, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jean-Claude Van Damme!!!   First time on Blu-ray!

With the theatrical hits piling up — Bloodsport (1988), Black Eagle (also 1988 … available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Rewind Collection edition from MVP), Kickboxer (1989) and Lionheart (1990 … available as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack Rewind Collection edition from MVP) — it was a moment of divine inspiration to come up with a script that featured not one, but Jean-Claude Van Dammes in one film!

The result was Double Impact, which was a monster hit theatrically, not just in the domestic market, but internationally!!   From now on Jean-Claude Van Damme would be an international, bankable action star … and nearly three decades later there are no signs of him slowing down.

In Double Impact we get to see two sides of Van Damme, which was accomplished through split-screen film techniques and the use of no less than three different body doubles (each with unique “Van Damme” talents).   

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyThrough a prologue sequence, which takes place in 1960, we find that Paul (Andy Armstrong) and Katherine (Sarah-Jane Varley) Wagner are the proud parents of infant twin boys, named Alex and Chad.   Paul is in partnership with a chap by the name of Nigel Griffith (Alan Scarfe — Lethal Weapon 3, Back in Business, The Wrong Guy, etc.) and they are in the middle of celebrating an engineering project they’ve completed (the Victoria Tunnel from Hong Kong to mainland China).  Paul and his wife are murdered by assassins dispatched by crime lord Raymond Zhang (Philip Chan) … who is in league with Griffith!!

While Paul’s bodyguard, Frank (played by none other than Geoffrey Lewis — Night of the Comet, Any Which Way You Can, Bronco Billy, Pink Cadillac, etc.) fails in his duties to protect Paul and his wife, he still manages to rescue Chad, with the loyal family nurse spiriting Alex away to a nearby orphanage.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
We now skip ahead to the present day and Frank is running a martial arts studio in Los Angeles, where he has raised Chad by pretending to be his uncle.   It is now time to reveal the past and reunite the brothers, so a trip is planned to Hong Kong.

Once there, Chad is spotted by the alluring Danielle (Alonna Shaw), who mistakes him for her lover, Alex … in short order the twins are back together.   Frank fills in the gaps and Alex and Chad are now ready to revenge their murdered parents … an unstoppable pair of Van Dammes in action!!

Bonus features are a still a work-in-progress with MVD having already secured newly-prepared interviews with members of the cast and crew, plus never-before-seen behind the scenes footage.    

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey


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