Most action stars are now obsolete and we get these crap artsy fartsy ancient Chinese wire-fu flicks starring females, instead of classic 80's action. Don’t ask me why, it just happens! Accordingly, Jean Claude had to change his acting style, to be able to reach any range and to be prepared to take any challenge. If you have any doubt about his acting skills, you’d better see his more recent Replicant, In Hell, Wake of Death, first part of Desert Heat or the whole Narco! Wholeheartedly, I swear you’ll be amazed by his facial expression, by his laconic, yet powerful, phrase, by the blink of his eyes, or the tears streaming on his grimaced face from his devastated, full of anger, foggy eyes. Someone told once his roaring in the “powder” scene from Bloodsport is the best expression of fury ever. He even had the power to say, with his well-known humor: “Hey, JC, try to act!”

     You know people who succeed by the bad terms in which they are chewed by the press! Not even one of the successful actors or actresses escaped their insults! So, Jean Claude is on top, again!

      Still, there are honest people, the ones who met him, so look what THEY say about Jean Claude:

      «His gestured workmanship allows him an economy of verbal markers. To follow Jean-Claude, it is necessary to have lively mind and whet eye.» Hugues de Chanay

      «I had to supervise filming in Canada and I told myself that I was going to be dealing with a hysterical star. But Jean-Claude is overwhelming with respect, a true pro. In two hours, he succeeded in inserting all choreography. Beyond of this artistic plan, he really touched me, he’s a very human person with a mad energy, far from the picture of roughness which mass media gives in general.» Julien Rigoulot, boss of Cosa, about the filming of Kiss my eyes

      «I am a fan of Van Damme. He’s a touching guy, steeped in of feelings.» Benoît Poelvoorde

     «You will never see Jean Claude Van Damme saying something malicious, out of place. I do not understand why they put so much energy to make it all up. Ah yes, they go out of bucks; they get the sentences out of their context... Let’s say I take any actor, I take out a sentence of its context, it is so easy. You can make up a stupidity in seconds! And even at metaphysical and philosophical level, Van Damme says things sometimes more clever than quite a lot of well-known philosophers.» Benoît Poelvoorde

      The future can’t be but bright! He’s trying to combine the martial arts kind of movies, the ones which got him where he deserved, with impressive acting skills! He lacked a good director, the latest years! Well, it seems Sheldon Lettich, the great Sheldon Lettich, is back on track, for The Hard Corps! Not to mention the K1 stars gathered for the long expected Kumite! Let’s wait and see, let’s have patience, the future will be great! He was the best, he will be the best, again!