Maximum Risk

Maximum Risk (1996)

  • 28% of critics liked it
    (32 reviews)

  • 37% of users liked it
    (11,026 ratings)

Alain Moreau (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a French cop whose colleagues make a startling discovery -- a man named Mikhail, who was killed in a high-speed chase with police, looks exactly like him. Curious about the stranger with his face, Alain is told by his mother Chantal (Stephane Audran) that… More

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R, 1 hr. 41 min.
Directed By
Ringo Lam
Genres
Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Sep 13, 1996 Wide
On DVD
Oct 30, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Leonard Klady, Variety

    It's a visceral delight that refuses to be deterred by niceties of plot or character consistency and prefers sweat to emotion.

  • Richard Harrington, Washington Post

    There are so many car crashes in Maximum Risk that Van Damme ends up playing second fiddle to an ever-expanding salvage operation.

  • Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

    Lam not only handles the bravura action set pieces with ease but also a capable international cast as colorful and varied as the film's many locales.

  • Sean Means, Film.com

    The chases are chaotic and cliched.

  • Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle

    Action flicks should be fun, and this one is a bloody bore.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jason O


    A cop (Van Damme) just found out about something new. He's had a twin brother all these years and didn't know it, but the bad part is that he just found out by finding his twin's dead body. Little does this cop know that his twin brother was a Russian agent. Since he… More

  • Phil H


    Typical Van Damme plot line envolving murder and revenge but in the hands of Lam its is just about ok. There are some really nice action sequences here that really look good and slick involving cars and leaping about in front of trains hehe the stunts make the film really as the cast… More

  • David L


    Alain Moreau is a cop in France who cannot believe his eyes when a murder victim is the spitting image of him. He confronts his mother and learns that she had had twins but had to give one of them up. Wanting to solve the murder of his estranged twin, Alain follows a trail that leads… More

  • Dean M


    Great action-packed sexy thrill ride!

  • Steven V


    This Jean-Claude Van Damme action vehicle gets good marks for sound, low profanity, some very good action scenes and some interesting characters, but this is also another of these action films that has too much action. It would be better with some more lulls. It almost gets ridiculous… More

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