At 60, Jean-Claude Van Damme has racked up roughly as many features as birthdays. Noting this prolificness, the strangely compelling “JCVD” (2008) showed the Belgian bruiser ruminating on the options available to an aging action star. “The Last Mercenary (Le Dernier Mercenaire)” arrives on Netflix as one of those options, with Van Damme evincing an impish self-awareness about himself and the genre that nurtured him. As Richard Brumère, a famed secret service agent rumored to have once felled a rhino with his bare hands, the actor is in fine fettle. It might take him a bit longer to film a stunt, but, thanks to Thierry Arbogast’s skill with a camera, the seams in the action barely show.

Source: International New York Times July 30, 2021 06:56 UTC