While fans of Jean-Claude Van Damme anxiously await the arrival (???) of Kickboxer: Armageddon, the Muscles from Brussels is out there kicking ass and taking names in another flick. Darkness of Man finds JCVD as a former Interpol agent caught in the middle of a deadly turf war that endangers the life of a dead informant’s son that he’s sworn to protect.
The film is directed by James Cullen Bressack, who has worked with other action stars such as Steven Seagal, Bruce Willis, and Mel Gibson on a variety of flicks. Basically, Van Damme is in the right director’s hands, as he knows how to give an actor like him the proper spotlight.
At 63 years of age, nobody is expecting Van Damme to be doing the epic splits like he used to, and Darkness of Man is perhaps a grittier film than we’re used to seeing him in. But it looks like a solid role for him, and fans will want to keep an eye out when it hits digital on May 21st.
Van Damme is joined by an impressive cast that includes former Terminator herself Kristanna Loken, a former Blade in Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Franklin, a Mallrat in Shannen Doherty, plus Spencer Breslin and Emerson Min.
Synopsis: Russell Hatch (Jean Claude Van Damme) is a washed up, former Interpol operative who vowed to protect the son of an informant killed years earlier in a raid gone wrong. When merciless street gangs start an all-out turf war and the kid is caught in the middle, Hatch will stop at nothing to keep him safe and fight anyone who gets in his way.
