Jean Claude van Damme in "Hard Target"

He had not done an English language film before this.

And it had mixed reviews, I would say, when it came out.

I believe the Rotten Tomatoes scores were around a 65% for them critics and a dead heat 50 from the audience, which that surprised me.

I honestly thought that this would rate higher with the audiences because I hear about this one a lot.

But 65%, so almost two-thirds of the critics did enjoy it, that reviewed.

And it was a good number of reviews.

Stephen, had you seen this before?

I had not.

I had heard of it.

Because back in my teens, we watched Bloodsport, which is the go-to, the one that everyone would expect us to do for JCVD.

And so there was a handful of schlocky action movies that were kind of thrown about.

But this one I did not see.

So this was my first viewing.

All right.

I know I saw this before, but it's been so long that it was almost like watching it for the first time.

I did not, like I remembered parts, but I didn't remember the whole thing.

I didn't have like a good conscious memory of it.

So it may have been one of those that like I watched with a bunch of friends on a Saturday night and it was just there and you're kind of half watching it.

Yeah, lots of TBS kind of action movie night movies where they're reworked for TV.

I think that's where I watched Bloodsport was the first time.

It was like a TBS commercials every six minutes, heavily edited.

You know, that sounds like it might be, too, that I just stumbled upon it and watched it that way.

Yeah.

So a couple reviews I wanted to read.

We got a couple positive reviews here.