Van Damme plays Lyon, who has a lion's heart. See, it's a play on words. And this is back in the day when he was cu-ute (pronounced with two syllables). He escapes from Djibouti to New York, and has to get to Cali to save his brother who looks like the burnt Hungarian who fingered Keyser Soze. But he has no money, no job, no green card. What's he to do? Street fight.
Near the beginning, it tries to be a message movie, Van Damme's "Driving Miss Daisy," by showing the disparity of rich and poor, but that's quickly sidelined once the sporadic fight sequences begin. Bottom line: a'ight.
And, for those who care, the ending credits reveal the fight choreography was by Van Damme and Frank Dux, whose real-life story was "Bloodsport."
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