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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Like I always say, I do not write many reviews. First, I only write if the movie is extremely good and 2nd, if people are unnecessarily bashing a good movie or 3rd, it has a low rating. I decided to write this review because of 3rd reason. A different kind of movie from Van Damme, far away from his usual kind of action movies. You see him as an actor than the one kicking-ass. I saw it many years ago and have not forgotten the experience. It kinda reminds me of another movie called The Beast of War (with Kabir Bedi in ensemble cast). Both set in some desert and both unforgettable in a good way. This movie shows you the toll of war on one man and his comrades, a war with guns and knives, not of hi-tech weapons. You should see this damn well made B-movie. One of the most memorable movies I know. There are other very well made movies in usual action settings from Van Damme like "Wake of Death" and "Knock Off" and from Steven Seagal like "Urban Justice", "Pistol Whipped" and " Ruslan: Driven to Kill".

Legionnaire was an action drama which did not showcase Jean Claude Van Damme's trademark 360 kicks and instead tried to show that Van Damme can actually act. This movie had the potential to take off and be a decent movie, instead the end result just fell flat. It was hard to get interested with Legionnaire. This was one of a few movies that perhaps was a sign that this would be the beginning of Van Damme's career, which was also marred by drug and alcohol abuse as well as being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.Jean Claude Van Damme plays boxer Alain Lefevre who refuses to take a dive during a match and attempts to flee Marseilles, France for America. His plan to flee goes seriously awry and he ends up joining the French Foreign Legion to escape from his troubles. Alain finds that the only way to survive his time in the Foreign Legion is to make it out alive. And to make matters worse, hired thugs have been sent to join the Legion to seek revenge on Alain.Jean Claude Van Damme in his halcyon days was a thrill to watch. Bloodsport (1988), Kickboxer (1989), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992), Hard Target (1993), and Timecop (1994) are several of the many movies that I enjoyed watching Van Damme in. The late 1990's and throughout the millennium have not been kind to Van Damme. With the exception of The Expendables 2 (2012), his career has been stuck in direct-to-DVD doldrums and his career does not show any signs of being resurrected anytime soon.On paper producer Edward R. Pressman, famous for movies such as Wall Street (1987) and The Crow (1994), and director Peter MacDonald, well known for Rambo III (1988), you would expect that this would be an action packed spectacle. Instead, this was just a boring fizzer with an uninteresting story and you are wondering when will Van Damme kick some butt.Unfortunately Legionnaire is a very unmemorable movie and amongst all the many dismal movies of the past 15 years, you find yourself reminiscing the glory days of Jean Claude Van Damme.1/10.

It's 1925 Marseille. Boxer Alain Lefevre (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is forced to take a dive by crime boss Lucien Galgani. His ex-fiancée Katrina happens to be Lucien's girl. They plan to run off to America after he wins the fight. The plan goes wrong and he escapes by joining the Foreign Legion. He is sent to Morocco to battle the locals. Lucien sends assassins to kill Alain.Jean-Claude Van Damme is in a movie with an actual story. It doesn't make the movie good. The story is full of questionable plot points. The start is not that tense. I kept waiting for him to join the Foreign Legion. After all, that's the point of the movie. There are some relatively good war action. Overall, Van Damme is not good enough of an actor to make it without kick fighting.

This is the least typical Van Damme film - and his absolute best. really, if you come to this film expecting a typical Van Damme film, please go see Double Impact or Hard Target again.Based on a real incident during the 1925 Morocco campaign (and most of us didn't even know there was such a campaign), and highly suggestive of the many versions of Beau Geste that women have wept over in movie-houses for decades, this is a story about the French Foreign Legion. Viewers should be warned that the slogan of the Legion at this time was "March or die!" The only thing that kept these men from killing each other was that the Berbers were so much better at killing them.The film has an epic structure to it. The cinematography doesn't quite match this, but it is rock-solid. The actors are all very able. Clichés do drift through the film, but the final battle makes up for most of these.And, oh, yes, Van Damme can actually act. Quite well, when he doesn't let it get to his head.