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This movie delivers solid action and drama that reminds us of the good ole' 90's. Van-Damme's acting is great and down to earth, as he portrays a broken family man who lost his wife and struggles to provide for and protect his daughter by any means. Unlike classic Van-Damme, this movie is dark and realistic, and the action builds up nicely. It doesn't overdo anything, and gradually delivers more and more suspenseful scenes. For Van-Damme fans it's a must, but otherwise a satisfying action flick (except the rather indecisive ending). I'd recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys heavy characters and hard boiled suspense. That being said, it's not any superficial action-fest for teenagers with a short attention-span.

The Bouncer is an extremely grim & gloomy dark tale of a single father who works nights at sleazy clubs as a bouncer but can't wait to get home to see his daughter.

This is a very dark story, realism is splashed all over this Drama/Thriller & van damme gives probably his greatest performance of his career!!!

I like most grew up watching his 80's & 90's action films & have always been a huge fan of his as i am of Schwarzenegger & Stallone, so IT'S really nice to see van damme in a way long overdue dramatic role with serious acting even though it's another straight-to-dvd B-movie it's made with depth & character.

Van damme play's Lucas as a very lost & damaged man who only lives for his daughter.

The music is sometimes sad & dreary, it suits the gritty & grim tone perfectly as does the cinematography that captures the depressing surroundings.

A fantastic performance from van damme & a good solid gritty & violent story, just the ending ruined it abit for me but this is way better than most direct to dvd films & a million times better than nearly all of steven seagal's dvd flicks.

As all my action heroe's have aged & I've gotten older too, i see now that Van Damme is the best actor of those old school action stars & find that Van Damme gives the best performances in his films even if their low-budget B-movies & i find Van Damme to be the most down-to-earth of those guys & has become my favourite action star.

If you like Van Damme, this is a nice flick for you. Like his fellow "warriors" Schwarzenegger and Stallone he shows that he can actually do more than just fist- and gunfights. Well aged, so to say.

Lukas is no new Bloodsport or Lionheart and the story really provides nothing new but good acting and a good production make Lukas very entertaining with a good shot of nostalgia - recommended, if you like to watch a new Van Damme.

So the out-of-luck tough guy falls in with the bad guys, and has to sustain his sweet lil' daughter, eh? Usually, such a story would be a recipe for disaster, especially when the movie stars a former action hero who's too old do any real action.

To my everlasting surprise, this one is neither cheesy nor predictable or boring. It's simply a very good movie. The slower approach results in a realistic appeal, even though it suffers from the "blockbuster" orange-and-teal color grading. The gunshots sound like the real thing - and cars don't explode on impact.

At the end I was saddened that it only runs 90 minutes. Highly recommended for the JCVD's performance alone, let's hope they keep this coming.

JCVD is known for his action movies where hes defeating his opponents and villains with ease which is amusing and fun to watch but almost hard to imagine in reality but in this movie his acting comes first. He is really good and story is maybe cheap but ending is makes it special. Movie is pretty much dark when we talk about story line but what is the more important that it does not include unreal action scenes or plot holes. Dialogue is solid and as i mention acting is fair with very good effort from Van Damme to make it count. I suggest you to watch this movie, you wont regret it.

Not a masterpiece but still very good acting from JCVD, kind of a film noir, not deceiving, well filmed with good actors, the only movie that didn't deceive me that month :)

I see every Van Damme movies close to there release because i always been fan of the guy since i was a kid. I am from Quebec so the french/english switches during the movie didn't bother me at all, altough at times some accents are very pronounced.

I will be honest, i didn't had a lot of fun. First of all for a movie originally called "The Bouncer" , there is almost no fights in it. If you came to see Van Damme spin kick somebody, turn around cause you won't find it there. There is a couple very lackluster gun fights but nothing to entertain you much in the action departement.

The movie try to be a drama and more about its plot, but i didn't find much satisfaction there either. It looks very low budget/low scale, i didn't care much about the characters and what happen to them. I would like to say i apreciate Van Damme taking a "different role" trying to pull off a "dramatic performance" but it does not comes out like that, but more like just another brooding dark character like we seen him do many times, in Black Water, Kill em All, 6 Bullets, Pound of Flesh and many more.

To be honest i much prefer Van Damme in lighter roles. In recent memories i enjoyed Welcome to the Jungle and Ennemies Closer because he seem to have fun in those roles.

Lets just say Lukas won't make it to my Van Damme DVD collection unless i stumble upon it for 2/3$ in a pawnshop or video store clearance.

I really hope to see Van Damme in a full action packed movie in 2019, having fun and all. Even if its over the top. Cause thats the roles i prefer for him.

It reminded me of some of the latest Steven Seagal movies, where he's old and slow and overweight and some say that's not him to fight in the martial arts scenes. But no, this was really JCVD, only that he fights like a dumb brawler, and eliminates most of the opponents by strangling them or shooting them dead with some gun and without a frown.

Choose ANY other JCVD movie if you're a fan, choose "Pound of Flesh" if you want to see an aged Van Damme kicking asses with cool martial arts moves and killing bad people without a frown. You won't find any of that in Lukas.

It's amazing how an action movie star that has always been looked upon with a smirk and a snigger can appear in a film this captivating, dark and tense. Van Damme carries his role to the bloody end. Partly spoken French, partly spoken English but the film is totally French in style. And this is no criticism. Beautifully paced yet offbeat, this film captivates with subtle screenplay and suggestive scores that always convinces you that danger could be around the next corner. Such a contrast to Van Damme's former films that dissolve any interest when this film keeps you magnetised to the bitter end.

I fallow JCVD for long, see his down and down deep, but here is natural and he is back thanks to his director and producers, welcome back JCVD, good movie for see this weekend, is not about karate or some bad kung fu fight, like this movie really i thought JCVD = bad terrible movie, but this time he is back, keep going JCVD u see u looks better without that trash makeup in u face and hair, grab u popcorn enjoy the movie

It seems Van Damme's golden days are over due to his overage. Nowadays he works only with a handy HD camera and few people around him work as villains and his friends. And finally, it is edited into C- grade movie.

Lukas is one such movie which has no any substance or any quality script which will make it worth watching. I feel upset if I watch Van Damme's old movies when he was considered a martial art legend in Hollywood. Alas, those days are just past now, and he is no longer offered impressive roles, unlike Sylvester Stallone who was even nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor role in Creed, barring his age.

Can any producer offer such roles to Van Damme, please?

Lukas (2018) is one of the latest movies by Jean Claude Van Damme that I find tolerable and decent enough to add to your Van Damme collection. That being said as a fan I'm happy that he finally choose more movie with role that fit his physical condition and age nowadays because after Black Water I don't think I ever want to see him in another over the top 80s-like action movie. The movie got a slick direction and heavy on the drama and characters than the action so for people who want to see Van Damme kicks-ass it maybe a big disappointment but if you like the" Middle-aged man fighting his way out of trouble" story then you gonna enjoy this one.

Solid performance from Van Damme. Probably the best on his career. Raw and cruel movie with a human touch thanks to the great Van Damme.

Van Damme does well in these types of roles and even with the ease of a mostly French dialogue, he shines through when he's quiet and just painting a portrait of his character with the pain in his eyes and the tired look on his face.

Pretty straight forward plot. Van Damme, a club bouncer with a mysterious past, quickly finds himself unlucky and stuck between a rock and a hard place. All he really cares about is his daughter but the world just keeps getting in his way.

The action is unspectacular but in an artistic way. The fights are physical, gruelling and full of blunt force hits more than martial arts or fancy maneuvers.

If you're a JCVD fan you'll appreciate this film for what it is. And with a roughly 90min runtime, it's easy to get quickly invested and checked back into the world on a Saturday afternoon.

Decent pacing, simple story with a bit of action and a little bit of heart.

I saw this movie today, thinking to give a chance to a new Van Damme movie, but it´s always the same, i miss the old movies, were Van Damme was kicking ass, the setting is very dark, and the end is terrible, the budget for this movie, must have been very low.

Van Damme must return to the big budget movies, or at least a decent DTV, otherwise he can never get up, and rise as an action hero.

Stallone said in an interview that he is going to make another Expendables, maybe Van Damme can return as twin brother or something like it.

As for this movie, 3/10.

It was a very disappointing and dull movie. The plot was interesting but the script, pacing and overall look and feel was a misfire. Pass on this one.

There really isn't much to say about this movie. It's short and on point. Good acting, good action, good cinematography. It's a surprising action thriller that's not going to blow your mind but it's a grounded story with a lot of realism and grit.

The Bouncer / Lukas is the story of the titular character who is a 50-something bouncer at a club. He lives with his young daughter. One night at the club some arrogant patron dies accidentally after being interrogated in a private room by JVCD with no one to see. The patron falls on the floor after tripping and may have hit a stair and then - in less than 2 seconds - there is a pool of blood forming around the man, shot to the face of JVCD wincing... and the rest of the audience since it is so poorly executed.

In order to rush the story along, there is confusion about him being fired from the club, supposedly police looking into it and him, etc. He is then confronted by some guy who supposedly takes care of important problems in Europe (but you aren't told exactly what that means.) He wants JVCD to work for him to infiltrate a counterfeiting ring. That's where being a bouncer ends and now he is a bodyguard.

The film itself has decent production values. But the script isn't credible at all, leaps logic in a number of places and just doesn't feel right at all. Without giving away the film, you have to wonder why Lukas, a guy who trusts no one, suddenly places a ridiculous amount of trust at certain times when it makes absolutely no sense other than for the absurdly obvious to happen to push the film along to the next plot line.

My guess is that the idea is to get the audience to play into the big reveal. The problem is that it's so poorly set up that it's more of a bad cheat than a reveal.

JVCD isn't doing as much fighting in this film as prior, just a couple of scenes to get you to think he's still tough. The other characters are pure cardboard cutout and you don't know much about them and just there to serve up another drama. JVCD is fine but the film is unfortunately a total waste of time.

Van Damme has improved as an actor majorly, he needs to continue this European movie making streak and leave the usual hollywood action crap behind, this is a nice movie with better acting than story but still better then what he has done in the past decade. Watch it, won;t be disappointed.

Sometimes I can't understand IMDB ratings. How this movie has a 5.9 (by the time of writing) and mostly 7 and up reviews baffles me. I can understand the other way around with studios messing with the ratings, but this? This is a genuinely good movie, very well directed, with some standout fight scenes and a very solid acting job by JCVD himself. Granted, the story is a bit cliched, but the execution is so good that you can forgive some lack of originality in the screenplay. This is a very dry, raw and intense watching experience and I am always rooting for a return to form from the Muscles from Brussels, and it seems that from time to time he gets out of STV hell to deliver a solid action movie. This is one of those times. Bravo.

This movie wasn't shot poorly, it wasn't filled with impossible action sequences, there were only a few major downfalls.

1st one was the lack of an ending.

The "cops" or whoever they are seem to have all the knowledge, yet never reveal ANY of it to the viewers. So we don't know if they actually were cops or not in the end.

Our hero if you can call him that, has done nothing to reveal his past, so we don't know if he's special forces or just some guy who was an armed bodyguard as he claims.

So we're left wondering if the good guy does anything worthwhile in the end.

2nd we didn't get much in the way of character growth from the first scene until the ending scene. We don't even know if he lives to see his daughter again, as he looks rather weak and drops the radio.

3rd just don't waste your time watching the last 5 minutes, up until then it's a reasonably well done movie, and you can imagine a much much better ending than the one that's on screen.