What Was Jean-Claude Van Damme Thinking

“Right when he had built up my hopes with ‘JCVD’ … I thought, this man has been underrated for so long …” But “The Eagle Path” just didn’t do it for League or his colleagues in the genre programming arena.

Another person in the conversation (while awaiting the start of a midnight screening of “L’Autre Monde” – a French virtual-reality thriller) recalled a Gersh Agency screening last month where Van Damme planted himself in front of the door, making it impossible for this audience member or any other to leave.

“He spent 20 minutes before the film started, explaining everything that was going on in his life,” this fellow went on to say before having a sudden flashback from the film and exclaiming, “When he tries to pull the catheter out, I almost lost my mind!”

On reconsideration, this all-male delegation decided "Eagle Path" just might be a new entry in the “so bad it's good” annals of cinema history.