Hard Target

In 1993 famed Hong Kong action director John Woo made his much-anticipated American cinema debut with Hard Target. Hard Target stars Jean-Claude van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, a Cajun fisherman/street vigilante who uses motor oil for hair gel.  After handicapping a gang of street thugs Chance is hired to help a woman find her estranged father who “went out for smokes” a bunch of years ago. She’s now tracked him to the New Orleans homeless scene, and in what would be a bit of horrible timing she shows up the day after he is hunted by a group of international sportsmen who specialize in hosting human hunts - for the truly distinguished gentleman.  Anywho, Chance needs a couple hundred bucks for a union dues so, begrudgingly, he agrees to help the woman out. Soon they uncover a group selling human hunts, led by Lance Henriksen, and become targets themselves, hard targets… So, Chance takes the girl into the backwoods to leave the girl with his Uncle, an amazing Cajun Wilford Brimley, you read that right, a goddamned moonshine drinking, bow shooting, Cajun Wilford Brimley! So, as luck would have it, Chance stays hard AF, so-to-speak, for the rest of the movie and kills the fuck out of everyone. Hard Target brought in a whopping $74 million off of a $19 million dollar budget. But, does it hold up? Listen in as Jon, Colin, and Brent debate slow motion pigeons and spicy oatmeal and see if this movie makes us hard, or is just hard to watch.