Legionnaire
(1998)
Overview
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
Director
Peter MacDonald
Top Billed
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Filipe Manuel Neto
⭐ 8/10April 25, 2023
**The best Van Damme movie, for me.**
I picked up this movie by chance, right at the beginning, and I watched it. I liked the style, the atmosphere, and the fact is that the film turned out to be very good. The film begins when a boxer, who should have lost a fight, decides not to comply with the agreement, harming some mobsters, who go after him to kill him. In order to escape and hide, he enlists in the Foreign Legion and goes to Morocco, wh…
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Wuchak
⭐ 6/10May 24, 2023
**_Jean-Claude Van Damme adventure in the Moroccan desert_**
In 1925, a boxer in Marseille (Van Damme) makes some big enemies and so joins the French Foreign Legion in which he’s assigned to Morocco during the Rif war to defend a desert outpost against Abd el Krim’s Berber guerillas.
“Legionnaire” (1998) begins like “The Cotton Club” (1984) before settling into a plot reminiscent of “The Dirty Dozen” (1967) with the North African milieu of …
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$67,900,000