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• Double Team | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £5.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (15.41%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Look ma, no script! As expected from a movie by Hong Kong action director Hark Tsui, there are many explosive, fast-paced sequences in this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle. Some are thrilling, others inconsequential. There is also another mumbling, overdone performance by Mickey Rourke, who looks as if he performed his own plastic surgery. Except for an unintentionally humorous ending, the only surprise is Dennis Rodman as Van Damme's partner in exploitation. Rodman has plenty of charisma, but needs someone to weed out those inferior scripts. He plays an eccentric arms dealer coerced by an avenging Van Damme into tracking down the evil and sadistically weird character played by a well-muscled Rourke. It says little for the production that the best sequence of the movie occurs a quarter of the way into the action. It concerns an escape by Van Damme from an island think tank for forcibly retired covert agents. After that, everyone should have gone home. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• The Yakuza Way | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £6.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (21.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Kanuma a member of a Japanese gang and his friend are set to smuggle a shipment of cocaine back to Japan. En-route Kanuma persuades his girlfriend to smuggle the drugs as she is a flight attendant. But the girl is killed and the drugs stolen. Now Kanuma must face a double-crossing partner and a world of corruption to avenge a death and retrieve the drugs...