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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Lam not only handles the bravura action set pieces with ease but also a capable international cast as colorful and varied as the film's many locales. Read more
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: From start to finish, Maximum Risk presents spectacular stunts choreographed and coordinated by Charles Picerni and some hair-raising, stomach-churning automotive chases attributed to Remy Julienne, the French master of the art. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The generic nature of the plot and action sequences, not to mention the presence of Jean-Claude Van Damme, made everything seem all-too-familiar. Read more
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: It just simmers down, becoming an embarrassing exercise in the pointless and predictable. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: A standard Van Damme pic, competently assembled but with little of the manic edge found in director Lam's Hong Kong movies. Read more
Leonard Klady, Variety: It's a visceral delight that refuses to be deterred by niceties of plot or character consistency and prefers sweat to emotion. Read more
Richard Harrington, Washington Post: There are so many car crashes in Maximum Risk that Van Damme ends up playing second fiddle to an ever-expanding salvage operation. Read more