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It's no secret Van Damme has lost much of what clout he once held at the box office when he's now reserved to doing leads in straight-to-video action flicks. I guess the hindsight is you could say that about any of the other big action stars. It's been awhile since Arnold really pulled in the audiences and even longer for the likes of Stallone, Norris and even good 'ol Steven Seagal.

So it wasn't the biggest surprise when Van Damme's latest 'Desert Heat' went straight to video. The strangest thing is it's leaps and bounds ahead of Universal Soldier 2 that got a theatrical release and Van Damme is actually pretty good when he's relaxed and having fun. With a few familiar faces in the supporting cast helping out.

This one finds Van Damme as a man at his emotional end. He believes he's got nothing to live for anymore and when we met up with him he's ready to commit suicide and end his life. What happens shortly after that is pretty basic, but fuels the rest of the story. A bunch of dirty people try to wax him and leave him for dead and he swears to make them pay in blood. So not entirely original. With more gunplay than there is martial arts - you have to decide if that's a good or bad thing for a Van Damme flick. It's a case of opinion and/or taste more than anything else. The atmosphere is light and everyone seems to be having fun. Which is great. This story couldn't have survived a single viewing if it took itself seriously.

I'm not recommending this outright, but I'm not saying stay away either. Love or hate Van Damme, this is a half-decent addition to his mixed slate of movies and if nothing else this movie contains one of the most unique sex scenes I've seen in an action movie in a really, really long while. It's both erotic and vaguely comical at the same time if you can believe that. You'll have to see the movie to know what I mean, but this all goes back to an earlier point. It never takes itself seriously and that's what keeps things enjoyable rather than being a pain to watch in the end.

I keep telling folks that it is not a good idea to remake Japanese movies. This is an attempt to do the 1962 film YOJIMBO again. It doesn't work, but that doesn't mean it not worth your time.

OK, so some very stupid yahoos decide to kick Van Damme around when he is severely depressed and suicidal and steal his gun and motorcycle. These boys are the local counterfeiters/drug dealers/village thugs. You can guess what comes next.

What sets this film apart is the inclusion of Pat Morita (154 films!), Danny Trejo (139 films, including the upcoming Grindhouse), and Trailer-Trash Queen Jaime Pressly.

It's really a very funny Van Damme movie and worth checking out. At least some passionate action returns.

Hey, if you want art go to a museum. This thing is entertaining. Slow start but it makes up for that. Funny in understated ways. Vivid characters that weren't all made with cookie cutters. If the dialog had been witless the life would have drained out of this movie as easily as the bad guys die. But I'll wager the writer (Tom O'Rourke II) was awake and had some fun. I was too and I did too. Hats off to him.

We (viewers) made Hollywood (filmmakers) to have a steady source of diversionary schlock. This one delivers.

P.S. Should get an award for egregious miscasting: Vincent Schiavelli as a Sikh?

What was this all about? To start with, I like Jean-Claude Van Damme, and many of the user comments here praise this as one of his better film. I totally disagree. I like Jean-Claude for what he does best, which is kicking along with well scripted one liners. Jean-Claude has shown that with a good script and larger-then-live action sequences he can bring us pretty good films, with Hard Target being my favorite. Other average but watchable films are for example; Universal Soldiers, Nowhere to run and Timecop. But Inferno is an oddity to me. It is true that we have some good humor from the support cast and the idea behind the story is not all that bad. However, I was at loss as to Jean-Claude's character. Why did he want to kill himself, and what was this mysterious relationship he had with the Indian. The mixture of reality and some dream-Indian-coyote world was awkward, and the love story unbelievable (He meet the woman for 5min, and from that point they were like a couple???). So all in all, pretty sad effort, but OK due to good support cast. 4/10

Let's be clear right up front: this is a lousy movie. From the acting to the action, dialog to music, it's all bad filmmaking. Yet there is something watchable about this slow motion train wreck.

JCVD can't act. Everyone else performs down to his level. If there was a director on the set, he wasn't directing.

The dialog is just bizarre. It sounds like one of those spaghetti western bad overdubs. Nothing anyone says makes the slightest sense.

Pacing is all over the place. Scenes plod along to no conclusion or race ahead to no conclusion, sometimes at the same time.

The actors are made of cardboard. Despite what the writers would have us believe, one dimensional weirdness is not a personality. The religious folks are only religious folks. The rednecks are only rednecks. The morons are only morons. The eye candy are only eye candy. And do on. You know what everyone is going to say and do before they do.

The closest films to this are the Golan Globus Chuck Norris cheapies. Those too are watchable, but if you stop and think about it you can't explain why.

Four stars.

Oddly enough, then I have actually never seen the 1999 action movie "Inferno" (aka "Desert Heat") from writer Tom O'Rourke and director John G. Avildsen before now in 2022. And I grew up watching the action movies of the likes of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme, and so forth.

I enjoyed "Inferno" for what it was, but this wasn't among the best of movies from Jean-Claude Van Damme. Sure, the movie was watchable and entertaining, but it was suffering from being a little bit too generic. But hey, at least it made for the type of entertainment where you just lean back, munch on the snacks and watch the action on the screen.

The acting performances in the movie were good, and they definitely had a good cast ensemble for the movie, with the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme, Danny Trejo, Pat Morita, Larry Drake, Jaime Pressly, Bill Erwin, Vincent Schiavelli and Jeff Kober to mention the most recognizable.

There is a good amount of action in "Inferno", and it is definitely the action that mostly drives the movie forward and carries it a great long way.

My rating of "Inferno" lands on a five out of ten stars.

I originally didn't really have any intentions of watching Dessert Heat. As much as I love a Van Damme film, the fact this is one of his released straight to DVD films did put me off. I only ended up purchasing it because I happened to come across it in the 50 Pence section of a DVD and Games store we have in the UK. I thought for 50p why not. And to be fair, I really enjoyed it.

If you can prepare to watch a movie and not take it too seriously then it's worth a watch to let the time pass and entertain you. Don't get me wrong, it's not Universal Soldier or Sudden Death. But Van Damme kicks ass in this.

Fair to say that the Muscles from Brussels has put out much better films both before and after 'Desert Heat' aka 'Inferno', in which JCVD plays a mysterious Eddie Lomax left for dead in the desert by some goons who steal his bike. It was apparently a nice bike because Lomax can only think of getting it back, and exacting a little revenge on the guys who took it.

This is Van Damme's attempt at a modern day western revenge saga, I guess. It takes a long while to really hit it's stride, the characters are kind of weird, and not even your standard Van Damme action scenes are enough to make this a good film.

I tried hard, because I like good and bad Van Dame, but just couldn't get excited about this one.

Anyway, you shouldn't compare this movie to either of the above. Although I haven't seen Yojimbo (pronounced Yo-Jimbo by one of the characters), but I'm sure it won't be fair to all of them.

This movie is an action movie, with Van Damme as the good guy, but it's not very serious. Sure, there are explosions and guns and kicks and a completely unnecessary sex scene and all that, but it seems like there are quite a lot comic relief moments and characters. Pat Morita and Bill Erwin reminded me of Statler and Waldorf from The Muppets, for one.

Van Damme plays an American, which meant that he talked very little and tried to talk in a raspy voice to disguise his accent. And you know what? It worked. The only thing that I couldn't let go is because I expected to hear his unique accent.

This movie is 95 minutes well spent. Don't go out of your way looking for it, but you don't have to avoid it either.

This Van Damme movie was a bit more of a renter than big screen material. Of course, this had some ad lib as well if you know what I mean. The cast have some well known stars. Pat Morita(The Karate Kid movies), Larry Drake(L.A. LAW, and Darkman 1&2), Danny Trejo(so many movies impossible to keep count) the same with others. A man left for dead, is typical, but when the heavy steal his wheels, that's grounds for seek and destroy! Eddie Lomax(Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes nuts in the desert, then his friend SixToes(Trejo) revives him. Going into town is where all the action and comedy starts and ends. Having slice of apple pie will definitely put a smile on anyone face. Because it's an all-American treat. My favorite part are the two Christian couple who give Lomax a room, and the old guy, had more concern about Lomax and the safety of others. Especially, when he got the two blondes out of the bar, and they got to shower and shave. It wasn't the blondes the couple should be worried about, Lomax got the thanks, he will never forget! In fact normally the woman wipes out the man during sex, in this case, he wiped out the blondes and Mrs. Reynolds felt confident that Lomax was a saint in his own way. Other than that, the movie was OK, after all. Good for fans of Van Damme, and I like the howling of the coyote in it as well. Rating 2.5 out of 5 stars.

Wow, this movie is almost like a Road House for the late 90's. In other words, this is a good, no, GRRRREAT bad movie. Van Damme effectively plays another dumb guy / bad ass/ good guy. JCVD arrives in a small desert community populated almost entirely by abrasive creeps. Abrasive is putting it mildly, these guys snort crank/coke and verbally abuse old folks/hot waitresses around the clock. Of course Van Damme must help out the old folks and hot waitresses, probably because he's on some spiritual journey, or maybe he just wants to get laid, or maybe because he was planning suicide anyway. Whatever, the case may be, 2 old indians (one a motorcycle, the other an actual human being) help him get it done. The mullet adorned red necks and bikers which he awkwardly incapacitates are worth the price of admission alone. For my money this belongs amongst the best of Van Damme's entertainingly stupid body of work. Don't miss it!

Coyote Moon or Van Damme's Inferno(the title in Spain).Is one of the worst films that I've seen.The film doesn't have argument and the performance of Van Damme makes me laugh it's too bad.The film doesn't have more action or fights and the humorur is bad.The film is bored and the only thing good is Pat Morita perfomance,a good actor.

I think this was a pretty good movie for Van Damme to make his come back from drugs in. It was the same formula as every single other Van Damme movie, but it was pretty entertaining, and Danny Trejelo (sp.?) was very good as his faithful friend Johnny Six-toes. I've certainly seen worse (the matrix, for example)! It's too bad that Van Damme has gone to straight-to-video movies now, since he is STILL a better action actor than a clown like Matt Damon in the "Bourne Mistake" or whatever! Damon is a puss, a bad actor, and a complete wienie! I had a hard time not LAUGHING at the thought of him as an action figure! Oh well.. I hope Jean-Claude Van Damme starts making better action movies again very soon, and gets one in the theater.

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as Eddie Lomax a suicidal tough guy who finds he ultimate motivation to live, revenge and it is here when he plays Yojimbo and knocks around the redneck punks who ripped him off of his sacred motorcycle. Inferno or as it is known here in the US, Desert Heat is the last gasp of 80's action in a decade that was leading into a decade that wussified the genre with CGI and digitalized fight sequences. Desert Heat then is generally far more enjoyable than the general output post-2000 but what we also have is a goofiness I miss in the panic of either deadly serious action flicks or crushingly dumb action flicks (Ahem , XXX) so in the end we have a movie that I loved. Jean-Claude Van Damme as usual provides the usual high kicking action sequences we come to expect but also provides us with more laughs this time. Indeed the real fun in this gleefully nutty dumb action flick is the demented dialog which consist as an ego trip. For instance Pat Morita says at one point about Van Damme "I bet he gets lots of P---y!" or when Larry Drake is asked why he favors his youngest son "I actually loved his mother, you were both unfortunate side effects of recreational f--king back when f--king was fun!" Of course his response to his saddened son, was to get over it. While I can't actually recommend you go out and rent Desert Heat, I do say that if you stumble upon it on late night TV, I highly doubt you'll find a more enjoyable movie to watch.

* * out of 4-(Fair)

Coyote Moon aka Inferno is like most other films Jean-Claude has done which include bad guys who p*ss JC off so he goes and kicks their ass but not before they kick his and of course don't forget about the typical love interest that is put in for some kind of weak romance story. I love some of JC's early work like the awesome 'No Retreat No Surrender', Bloodsport and Kickboxer but since he did Streetfighter The Movie his career took a nose dive and just like Steven Seagal his movies are made for his following of diehard fans. He needs to try and do a serious non-action flick once in awhile where he isn't the lead role so people will take his acting ability seriously but whether he can do such a role is unknown but would be interesting to find out.

All in all it's a fun movie if you don't expect a masterpiece but let's face it who the heck would. The whole coyote thing was just stupid and the reasons this movie gave just so JC could kill people. A movie to watch with a few beers and just chill out to. It is quite enjoyable but cheesy in places. 7/10

I sat down to watch this film in the mood for some slam bang Van Damme action but was a little let down by the lack of action and the silly characters on show.The tone of the film was similar to Oliver Stones U-Turn but this was nowhere near as engaging or well directed.Jean Claudes best films are the ones where he plays a vulnerable character fighting for a meaningful cause such as AWOL where he's fighting for his dead brothers wife and kid,or Kickboxer for his paralysed brother.This film is a little wandering and off centre.I tries to be offbeat with its characters and humour but the film makers have obviously lost sight of what people who watch Van Damme films want.Action,action and more Damme action. I gave this film 5 out of 10 upon viewing but the more i think about it, i should have given it a 3.

Yes, it's a cheesy film, but it's marvelous and mysterious in its own way. Toward the end when Pat Morita is whistling a tune, the melody is THE INTERNATIONALE, anthem of international Communism. No explanation for this is offered, nor does one seem obvious. It's hard to imagine adding much new to the remaking of YOJIMBO with Van Damme in place of Eastwood or Mifune, though motorcycles and exploding fuel tanks can't hurt. Not every action film can match the classics. But this one beats the pants off ROADHOUSE with Patrick Swayze, with a similar landscape. Such is, at least, my own opinion. And it's better than AVENGER with Sam Elliott, who was also in ROADHOUSE. But I digress...

Oh well, why not wrap up a perfectly bad-movie-week in the company of the Muscles from Brussels? 'Inferno' (aka 'Desert Heat') wasn't exactly as bad as I hoped it would be. Loner-hero J.C. Van Damme, tormented by ghosts from the past, has a severe alcohol problem. Well, it's not really a problem, but actually a solution: Whenever he's drunk, he's not killing people. Naturally, he ends up killing a whole lot more of them in this movie. They even managed to cram Danny Trejo, Larry drake, Vincent Schiavelli and Pat Morita in this movie (well, actually, Morita ain't that big, so he fits in easily). Cutie-bonus goes to Jaime Pressly (who once again keeps her cloths on, *sigh* -- can anybody finally recommend me a movie were she does take something off?). Little bit of fighting, little bit of shooting, little bit of sex (loved those blond bimbos -- yes, there actually is female nudity in this flick), a little bit of killing... And all this in a movie that's got some sort of revenge-western vibe to it. Stupid attempts at humor, predictable 'til the last frame. Well maybe not exactly the last shots, because those kind of took me by surprise and really had me laughing, thinking "Sh!t, man, have I just been watching a ghost movie?". Oh well, JC might have seen better days, but I'm sure he's seen some worse too.

I chanced upon this screen gem on USA as part of their Jean-Claude Van Damme summer movie marathon. Kind of a bizarre mix of "Mad Max", where a loner takes on thugs on motorcycles who are terrorizing the citizens of some out-of-the-way "town" ("town" as in five buildings and a law-abiding population of 12); "A Fistfull of Dollars"/"Yojimbo"/"Last Man Standing", where a loner pits two rival criminal organizations against each other; and gay porn (two sweaty men in their underwear massaging each other's feet!).

All of the supporting characters are campy caricatures and the interaction is comical. Gee, Rhonda's world famous apple pie was so good that JC took only one bite and left the rest... and apparently no one in the desert bats an eye at murder, or drinks water for that matter.

The action was OK for a DTV flick, but don't rent it if that's what you're looking for. Its real appeal is the campiness. "Desert Heat" is a good pick if you want something mindless and off-the-wall to kill a couple of hours.