Jean-Claude Van Damme continued to work with Hong Kong's finest directors of action (Hard Target and Maximum Risk were the Hollywood debuts of compatriots John Woo and Ringo Lam) to very little effect. Here, the former kickboxing champion plays an anti-terrorist agent who's on the trail of master criminal Mickey Rourke. Although Tsui Hark, probably best-known as the producer of the A Better Tomorrow series, supplies a hyper-realistic surface sheen and loads of slow-motion violence, he gets no closer to drawing out a convincing performance from the Belgian star. To make matters worse, Tsui also has to cope with another non-actor, in the shape of enigmatic basketball star Dennis Rodman. His ludicrous hair and clothes do at least deflect attention from his unfunny performance as a mysterious gun-runner who helps Van Damme in his pursuit of the villain.

A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.