Legionnaire

1998 98 min ★ 5.9 Action, War, Adventure, History

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.

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Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Alain Lefevre

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Luther

Steven Berkoff

Sgt. Steinkampf

Nicholas Farrell

Mackintosh

Jim Carter

Lucien Galgani

Ana Sofrenović

Katarina

Daniel Caltagirone

Guido Rosetti

Joseph Long

Maxim

Mario Kalli

Rene Galgano

Joe Montana

Julot

Details

Director

Peter MacDonald

Screenplay

Sheldon Lettich

Tagline

"A fugitive from a killer. A remote outpost. A fight to the death."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$67,900,000

Production

Quadra Entertainment

Reviews

F

Filipe Manuel Neto

April 25, 2023

★ 8/10

**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 enl...

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Wuchak

May 24, 2023

★ 6/10

**_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 Dir...