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DARK ANGEL
Sit back, relax and set your brain to melted because Dark Angel is the utterly ludicrous, explosion-filled Dolph Lundgren classic you've been waiting for. Squaring off against Dolph's rule-breaking Houston cop is Talec, a violent extraterrestrial drug dealer with a nasty habit of firing space drugs into humans to extract their endolphins endorphins to make yet more space drugs. Bombastic, fantastic and easily beaten in the Google rankings by James Cameron's Dark Angel TV series, if you watch only one Lundgren movie today, make it A View To A Kill... then Dark Angel. Sorted.
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ROCKY IV
Playing Ivan Drago, the most ruthlessly trained athlete ever, Lundgren has the privilege of actually killing Apollo Creed in his very first professional fight. The resulting US vs. USSR grudge match is jingoistic nonsense of the highest order, the Rocky movie that totally does away with realism and replaces it with stars and stripes-shorted, utterly predictable, infrequently laughable Cold War nonsense, but also gave Dolph his most iconic role – and the chance to say the immortal words that would be grunted at him forever more: "I must break you."
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SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOYKO
Before his tragic accident on the set of The Crow, Brandon Lee was introduced to American audiences in this, his first Hollywood movie. Partnering with Dolph Lundgren as buddy cops hell bent on taking out the Los Angeles Yakuza, much of the comedy work is in Lee's hands, though Lundgren does get to take out a room of bad guys whilst holding onto a cup of miso soup and partake in an epic nightclub brawl where he dishes out punishment with a serving tray. Plus, Dolph gets to enjoy an illegal underground fight: "Five Grand on the new guy!" shouts one suit-clad goon. "That's a good bet," comes his reply.
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