![]() ![]() Timecop - Rotten Tomatoes - Movies Movie Trailers Reviews. Timecop Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision Other media: TV Series Comic. There you have it! The more JCVD splits the better! If you liked this post make sure to check out my other random data analysis musings.Timecop (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The film also spawned a Timecop TV series in 1997 and a video game in 1995. ![]() Future JCVD films like The Quest and Lionheart mimicked the tournament/revenge plots with much less skill and splits for some reason. They also have the added luxury of coming out first and introduced the world to gratuitous split moments before they were cool (thus they made him cool). Bloodsport and Kickboxer focus on his strengths and don’t give a crap about the plot, saddling him with kids or giving him a twin. I really didn’t know what to expect from the data but I think it’s credible. When you bring up Sudden Death people talk about the insane kitchen fight. When you ask people about Hard Target they are quick to bring up snake punching and mullets. ![]() When thinking about the splits of JCVD I’d say Bloodsport, Timecop and Kickboxer will come up first. They also feature a bonkers ( listen to the HDTGM folks talk about JCVD’s films) amount of splits that are straight up gratuitous. However, the three films where he does multiple splits Kickboxer (7), Bloodsport (7) and Timecop (2) are in the top five of his highest rated films.īloodsport and Kickboxer are B-movie classics that feature copious montages, solid fights, and villains who have terrible gameplans. I assumed he did at least 7,000 splits in each film and was taken aback when I realized there was a dearth of splits in most of his movies. ![]() The majority of JCVD’s films fall in the 0-1 split category. Here are the averaged RT critic and IMDb user scores according to splits.Ġ – 1 splits – 38.6% ( Double Team, Cyborg, Double Impact, No Retreat, No Surrender, Street Fighter, Universal Soldier, Universal Soldier: The Return, Maximum Risk, The Quest, Nowhere to Run, Death Warrant, Sudden Death, Hard Target, Lionheart) – There weren’t critic scores for Death Warrant or No Retreat, No Surrender so I averaged the RT score for 0-1 splits movie (25%) and made those the scores.ģ+ splits – 56.25% ( Bloodsport, Kickboxer) Here are the films that are included in the data set:īloodsport, Kickboxer, Timecop, Double Team, Cyborg, Double Impact, No Retreat, No Surrender, Street Fighter, Universal Soldier, Universal Soldier: The Return, Maximum Risk, The Quest, Nowhere to Run, Death Warrant, Sudden Death, Hard Target, Lionheart I also decided to leave out his direct-to-DVD films (sorry Replicant) because I only have so much free time and aside from the latest Universal Soldier movies I don’t think my soul could take it. The selected splits are all gratuitous and often result in ball punches and other things that hurt. The splits I included are splits that were thrown into the film because JCVD is awesome at splits. I’d like to thank Grantland (RIP), WatchMojo and Youtube for aiding me in my research.īefore we get any further I want everyone to know that I left out spinning split kicks and kicks where JCVD is kinda splitting. However, after watching way too many clips and reviewing his movies I realized I’m remembering his movies all wrong. When thinking about his career I’d just falsely assumed he did splits in every single fight scene. There aren’t that many splits featured throughout JCVD’s cinematic catalog. I collected the audience (IMDb)/critic (Rotten Tomatoes) data for JCVD’s theatrically distributed films and I’ve discovered something that will shake the foundations of everything we know (probably not). Does the number of splits in a film impact critical and audience scores? If the star of the film is Jean-Claude Van Damme the answer is “yes.” JCVD is known for his splits and he’s gone to some pretty far lengths to stay relevant in the split world. ![]()
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