Black Eagle (1988 film)
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| Directed by | Eric Karson |
| Produced by | Shimon Arama |
| Written by | Michael Gonzales A.E. Peters |
| Starring | Sho Kosugi Jean-Claude Van Damme Doran Clark Kane Kosugi Shane Kosugi Vladimir Skomarovsky |
| Music by | Terry Plumeri |
| Cinematography | George Koblasa |
| Edited by | Michael Kelly |
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Rotecon B.V.
Magus Productions |
| Distributed by | Taurus Entertainment Imperial Entertainment |
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Running time
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Black Eagle is a 1988 American martial arts-action-thriller film directed by Eric Karson and starring Sho Kosugi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Kane Kosugi. It is notable for its location shooting on the Mediterranean island of Malta.
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Plot
Ken Tani (Sho Kosugi), a martial artist and special operative for the American government codenamed "Black Eagle", is summoned by the his superiors after an F-111 carrying an experimental black ops laser tracking device was shot down over Malta by Russian forces. A group of elite KGB agents led by Colonel Vladimir Klimenko and his brutal and enigmatic right-hand man Andrei (Jean-Claude Van Damme) have been dispatched to Malta to retrieve the device for their own ends. Tani, alongside CIA agent Patricia Parker (Doran Clark) and his sons Brian (Kane Kosugi) and Denny (Shane Kosugi) travel to Malta to find the device before Andrei does, leading to an eventual face-to-face encounter.
Cast
- Shô Kosugi as Ken Tani
- Jean-Claude Van Damme as Andrei
- Doran Clark as Patricia Parker
- Bruce French as Father Joseph Bedelia
- Vladimir Skomarovsky as Col. Vladimir Klimenko
- William Bassett as Dean Rickert
- Kane Kosugi as Brian Tani
Reception
Critics gave the movie a mixed reception overall.[1][2]
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Black Eagle at IMDb
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