Legionnaire

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

Sinopse

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.

5.8
1998
Released
1h 38m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$20,000,000.00

Keywords

#shepherd
#martial arts
#rebel
#morocco
#foreign legionaire
#sword fight
#revenge
#battlefield
#gunfight
#soldier
#battle
#desert
#combat
#behind enemy lines
#1920s
#action hero
#inspirational

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Reviews

@Wuchakover 2 years ago

**_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

@FilipeManuelNetoover 2 years ago

**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