Double Team (1997)
Double Team is a 1997 American action comedy film directed by Tsui Hark in his American directorial debut and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Rodman, and Mickey Rourke. Van Damme plays counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn, who is assigned to bring an elusive terrorist known as Stavros to justice. Things become personal when Stavros kidnaps Quinn’s pregnant wife after his own lover and child were killed in an assassination attempt that went awry. Aiding Quinn in his rescue is his flamboyant weapons dealer Yaz (Dennis Rodman). This film received negative reviews and was a box office bomb. The film was also nominated for and “won” three Golden Raspberry Awards:
Plot.
After retrieving a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros, anti- terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn retires to Southern France with Kathryn, his pregnant wife. A government representative tells Quinn that Stavros, Quinn’s nemesis, has become active again and convinces Quinn to come out of retirement. Quinn travels to Antwerp, Belgium where quirky arms dealer Yaz outfits him. Quinn and his team track Stavros to an amusement park but Quinn hesitates to shoot Stavros when he sees Stavros is meeting with his six-year-old son.
Stavros exploits Quinn’s hesitation and a shootout ensues. Stavros’ son is killed. Stavros flees into a hospital, pursued by Quinn. Stavros and Quinn fight in the maternity ward, and Quinn is knocked unconscious by an explosion. Due to his hesitation, Quinn is declared killed in action and placed in ‘The Colony’, an invisible penal island for secret agents. The occupants of the Colony are expected to analyze terrorist threats and register themselves every day using a fingerprint scanner. While analyzing information from a terrorist bombing, Quinn picks up a message from Stavros telling him that Stavros has kidnapped Kathryn.
