Six Bullets - Actually pretty good

I could always take or leave Jean Claude Van Damme's action films, even in the eighties - he was always second fiddle to Schwarzenegger and Stallone. Then he seemed to go off radar for years into an abyss of B and C movies that went straight to DVD.

And here he is again, going straight to DVD. However, for a change, this one's actually pretty good. JCVD plays an ex soldier or mercenary (they call him both, but it doesn't matter) who now works as a butcher, in between rescuing kidnapped children from the clutches of vile child-trafficking gangsters in Eastern Europe.

So, when an American couple lose their fourteen-year-old daughter, who ya' gonna' call?

One way to describe Six Bullets would be `a poor man's Taken' as it has elements of the hit Liam Neeson film where he has to rescue his kidnapped daughter in similar circumstances and surroundings. But that would be a little unfair, as Six Bullets does just enough to try and make it its own film in its own right.

For a start, the American couple don't just sit back and let the Muscles from Brussels do all the work, they take up arms and give him a helping hand.

There's not much here that's new, but it's done in a decent enough way to be worth a watch if you fancy seeing another action film.

Solid and definitely Van Damme's best film in years (not including The Expendables 2).

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that