Desert Heat (1999)
6/10
Decent Van Damme outing, tho a bit unusual
22 February 2021
I was curious for a while about this movie as apart from having Van Damme as the lead it has a lot of familiar supporting actors such as Vincent Schiavelli, Pat Morita, Bill Erwin and the always reliable Danny Trejo (who makes even bad movies look good) and also because from the poster it looked like an adventure movie.

In the beginning Eddie Lomax (Jean Claude Van Damme) drives all alone in the desert with his motorcycle and he is tired of living. After he has an allucination where he sees his friend Johnny Sixtoes (Trejo) some thugs attack him, leave him for dead and steal his bike. This gives Eddie a new sense in his life... to go after these thugs and kill them. When Eddie wakes up, he comes by a village that is used to the agressions by those delinquents and he tries everything he can to stop the bullies and get his bike back.

This is a very unusual movie for Van Damme as unlike in his most famous movies, he mostly shoots or stabs folks... as he usually kicks the bad guys in the groin. However most of his bullets at times hit the targets and often they make things inexplicably explode. And these scenes made me also laugh a bit.

Despite being very violent and a bit raunchy, this is a mildly enjoyable adventure movie that will please mostly people with low expectations or adventure movies' fans.
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