JCVD vs Wasabi
JCVD has the higher audience score (6.7/10 against 6.6/10 for Wasabi). Wasabi is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 1h 36m. Wasabi is the older of the two (2001 against 2008). Both are action, comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
JCVD
Wasabi| JCVD | Wasabi | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.7/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2001 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | Action, Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mabrouk El Mechri | Gérard Krawczyk |
| Main cast | Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Claude Van Damme, John Flanders, François Damiens, Zinedine Soualem | Haruhiko Hirata, Yoshi Oida, Jean Reno, Michel Muller, Carole Bouquet |
Synopsis
JCVD
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! This fictionalized version of Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States, but inadvertently gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages.
Wasabi
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.