“Double Team” is a big, snazzy spy flick; the problem is that it doesn’t have the sophistication to work (“James Bond” this is not). The fight scenes are fun and creative but the star power and script aren’t there at all.

In “Double Team”, super spy Jack Quinn (Jean-Claude Van Damme “Double Impact”, “Hard Target”) teams up with weapons dealer Yaz (Dennis Rodman “Simon Sez”) to take on bad guy Stavros (Mickey Rourke “The Wrestler”). There’s a scene where Quinn skilfully escapes a secret, high-security island and then there’s one where we see cyber monks and that’s a lot less impressive (mad scientists would’ve been more appropriate).

Van Damme is never great but here he’s alright but he isn’t suave in the slightest and would be better as a henchman in a “James Bond” film with his incredible muscles and high kicks. Mickey Rourke is forgettable as the bad guy. By far the worst thing about this film is Dennis Rodman; he dresses like a female prostitute and keeps changing his hair colour/style so maybe we’re meant to think tough guys need to spend their time being vein instead of killing bad guys, getting the girls and saving the world. The chemistry between Van Damme and Rodman is non-existent, who wanted to see these two opposite each other?

The action sequences are clever, energetic and thoroughly enjoyable, particularly when a tiger gets introduced into an explosive mine field inside the Coliseum. The issue here is the dumb script and the weak characters that in no way support the shootouts and fistfights. I think this film could have just edged it had Rodman not been here but he’s so distractingly bad that he completely ruins the film’s chance of working; it really says something about Rodman when he, a basketball player with facial piercings and bizarre fashion, can spoil a film with explosions and tigers in the same shot.