![]() Yaz initially agrees to help Quinn defeat Stavros after being offered access to CIA bank accounts but commits himself freely after discovering Kathryn is pregnant. Yaz is based in or near Antwerp, Belgium, and boasts that he stocks military hardware so new that even he does not know he has it. Dennis Rodman as Yaz, an eccentric arms dealer.Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jack Paul Quinn, a government counter-terrorist agent, forced out of retirement by the kidnapping of his pregnant wife, Kathryn, by Stavros.Goldsmythe asks Quinn for his hair and shirt as proof that he successfully tracked him Yaz drops a smoke bomb, allowing Quinn to escape. They take shelter from the explosion behind a vending machine. Goldsmythe, who has tracked Quinn, finds the baby Quinn, his son, Goldsmythe and Yaz run as Stavros is charged by the tiger and takes his foot off the mine. While Quinn and Stavros fight in the minefield, Yaz moves the markers, leading Stavros to step on a mine, unable to move without setting it off. Yaz arrives on a motorbike and snatches the baby, leaving Quinn to escape from the tiger and go after Stavros. Stavros leaves Quinn in the middle of a minefield with his son and a tiger. Quinn locates Stavros and the baby in a Roman amphitheater. He finds Kathryn has given birth and Stavros has taken his son. With the help of an order of monks Yaz has equipped with computers and Internet access, Quinn reaches the hospital. Quinn tracks Stavros' sniper to the hotel suite where Kathryn was being held and finds a clue to her whereabouts: a prescription bottle label. ![]() Quinn emails Stavros encouraging him to meet in a town square.Īt the meeting point, Quinn catches sight of Kathryn in a car but is intercepted by Stavros and a shootout occurs as Kathryn is driven away. However, Yaz volunteers his help after he learns that Quinn's wife is pregnant from a sonogram delivered to the given rendezvous. When they arrive in Rome, Quinn admits to Yaz that the bank accounts are empty, and he has nothing to offer for Yaz's services, but a promise to repay him. After fighting the men off, Quinn receives a message from Stavros telling him that he must go to Rome for his baby's sake. The two go to Quinn's house, where they are ambushed by Stavros' men. Quinn enlists Yaz's assistance by promising access to CIA bank accounts. Another agent on the Colony, Goldsmythe, is activated as Quinn's "guardian", responsible for tracking him down. Quinn slices off the skin of his fingertip and puts it into an automated device to fool the fingerprint scanner, then escapes the energy field surrounding the island by attaching himself to cargo due to be extracted from the air. While analyzing information from a terrorist bombing, Quinn picks up a message from Stavros telling him that Stavros has kidnapped Kathryn. The occupants of the Colony are expected to analyze terrorist threats and register themselves every day using a fingerprint scanner. Stavros and Quinn fight in the maternity ward, and Quinn is knocked unconscious by an explosion.ĭue to his hesitation, Quinn is declared killed in action and placed in 'The Colony', an invisible penal island for secret agents. Stavros flees into a hospital, pursued by Quinn. Stavros exploits Quinn's hesitation and a shootout ensues. Quinn and his team track Stavros to an amusement park, but Quinn hesitates to shoot Stavros when he sees Stavros is meeting with his six-year-old son. Quinn travels to Antwerp, Belgium where quirky arms dealer Yaz outfits him. A government representative tells Quinn that Stavros, Quinn's nemesis, has become active again and convinces Quinn to come out of retirement. It was also nominated for and "won" three Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Supporting Actor (Rodman), Worst New Star (Rodman) and Worst Screen Couple (Rodman and Van Damme).Īfter retrieving a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros, anti-terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn retires to Southern France with Kathryn, his pregnant wife. This film received negative reviews and was a box office bomb. ![]() Aiding Quinn in his rescue is his flamboyant weapons dealer Yaz ( Dennis Rodman). Things become personal when Stavros kidnaps Quinn's pregnant wife after his own lover and child were killed in an assassination attempt gone awry. ![]() It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn, who is assigned to bring an elusive terrorist known as Stavros ( Mickey Rourke) to justice. Double Team is a 1997 action comedy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark in his American directorial debut, and written by Don Jakoby and Paul Mones. ![]()
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