Strong early Van Damme vehicle with the star in excellent sensitive-head-kicker form as the foreign legionnaire who avenges his brother's death - and gets the brother's widow and kid in the bargain.
I didn't realise the main subplot was a riff on Walter Hill's Hard Times and that's great. Works well. Harrison Page is the James Coburn part as the hustling mananger.
Ticks the boxes well. Solid fights. Good character drama. Constrasting characters. Van Damme gets to be tough, sensitive, naked, adoring, loving, sexy. Well constructed vehicle.
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