Hard Target

Hard Target is a 1993 American action film directed by Chinese film director John Woo in his American directorial debut. The film stars JeanClaude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, an outofwork Cajun merchant seaman who saves a young woman, named Natasha Binder Yancy Butler, from a gang of thugs in New Orleans. Chance learns that Binder is searching for her missing father Chuck Pfarrer, and agrees to aid Binder in her search. Boudreaux and Binder soon learn that Binders father has died at the hands of wealthy sportsman Emil Fouchon Lance Henriksen who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation. The screenplay was written by Chuck Pfarrer and is based on the 1932 film adaptation of Richard Connells 1924 short story, The Most Dangerous Game.

In New Orleans, a homeless veteran named Douglas Binder Chuck Pfarrer is the target of a hunt. He is given a belt containing 10,000 and told that he must reach the other side of town where he would then win the money and his life. Hunting him is the hunt organizer Emil Fouchon Lance Henriksen, his lieutenant Pik Van Cleef Arnold Vosloo, a businessman named Mr. Lopaki who has paid 500,000 for the opportunity to hunt a human, and mercenaries including Stephan SvenOle Thorsen and Peterson Jules Sylvester. Binder fails to reach his destination and is shot by three crossbow bolts. Van Cleef retrieves the money belt.While searching for her father, Binders longestranged daughter Natasha Yancy Butler is attacked by a group of thugs who saw that she had a lot of money earlier. She is saved by a homeless man with exceptional martial arts skills named Chance Boudreaux JeanClaude Van Damme, a former Marine Force Recon. Chance is initially hesitant to involve himself with her mission, but as his merchant seaman union dues are in arrears he reluctantly allows Natasha to hire him as her guide and bodyguard during her search. Meanwhile, Chances homeless friend Elijah Roper Willie C. Carpenter is the next to participate in Fouchons hunt, and is also killed. ........

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