The Quest | | Cast : | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore | | Director : | Jean-Claude Van Damme | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 26, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | January 08, 2002 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 19, 2005 | | Summary | Poor | Content
 | I'm a Van Damme fan but this movie sucks real bad, only good parts are the fight scenes at the end of the movie, perhaps the last 10 or 15 minutes. Buy it only if you can get it for like 7 bucks. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | One Of Few | Content
| This is one of very few Van Damme movies one can actually sit through without falling asleep or laughing to death. Much of its success has to do with Moore's multiple appearances which keep the audience interested.
Van Damme has a lot of kids to look after and he wants to give them a better life. He decides to sign up for a championship fight involving one fighter for each country. The prize of course goes to the last man standing.
This film is plagued by the typical rudimentary plot for these types of screenplays and, as always, is crowded with bad actors sounding even worse because of a worthless script. The fighting scenes were O.K. but nothing compared to a Bruce Lee or Jet Li film. Again, the most delightful part of the film is Roger Moore whose character is both a helper and a scoundrel at the same time. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2004 | | Summary | A joke | Content
| If it's showing on TV and you want to laugh, watch it. Just don't spend any money on it.
The plot was ridiculously banal and was completely secondary to the whole thing. The movie is just a B-film action celebration, with stupid, overplayed "round one, fight!" streetfighter kinda sound effects for every geek to love and every normal person to have a ball laughing at.Basically, fast forward to the last half an hour or forty minutes to listen to some guy announcing the different countries and to hear the gong blast before watching some silly but cool fights. I mean, they're all pretty lame because you KNOW that the obvious ending is to see the American Van Damme fight the heartless big bad behemoth, but it's always more interesting to see what happens to the OTHER fighters...
Who wins between Russia vs Spain (a great fight)? China vs Korea? Turkey vs Holland? All the fighters are portrayed as the stereotypical image of their country and it's really quite a blast. The stand-outs are the Turkish fighter (serious Ottomon savage), Chinese (monkey-acrobatics), Japanese (fat sumo), Korean (buff asian), Spanish (flamenco dancer who hits on the only chick in the film), Greek fighter (ethical) etc. Roger Moore's presence is a joke and yeah, only if it's on TV and you're bored. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 29, 2003 | | Summary | Not the best Van Damne movie,but it was good | Content
| This movie was O.K,he fights in a competition and his friend dies by a big dude. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 28, 2003 | | Summary | Very Good Flick. One Of Van Damme's Best! | Content
| One of Van Damme's best films, quite similar to the best film to Van Damme's name 'BloodSport'. The Quest was enjoyable and suspenseful. Great fight scenes, very cool final fight. I would recommend buying this film on DVD. |
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