The Quest

This is my first Van Damme movie while running. It definitely isn't his best work but also better than some of his newer straight to DVD movies. It is also directed by Jean Claude himself. This brings me to my first point; Van Damme movies always have the trade mark triple take of every medium to major kick or punch. It happens so often it kind of gets old but now we have a movie that he is the director and the triple take was gone. I always thought that he did it because he thought he was awesome but it must have been somebody else idea. Okay to get to the movie now. He is a lovable street thief that is only doing it to help a bunch of homeless kids. He ends up getting into trouble and ends up on a boat. From there he is sold to a oriental dude that trains him to fight. He ends up going to a secret battle deep in Asia. He makes it to the last fight and in typical Van Damme fashion (Rocky Balboa is the same way) he gets the crap kicked out of him; going down like three times he should have been dead. He fights his way back and wins so he can return to the hobo children and make a good life for them. 90 minute movie and I ran 90 minutes so I would say it was a successful movie.

Daybreakers

I hesitated to watch this one for two reasons. 1 it is a vampire movie which could either be really good (Interview With a Vampire) or really bad (any corey feldman vampire movie) and 2 even if it sucked it would still probably make me jump which isn't good on a treadmill. I ended up really enjoying it. It was fairly fast paced and it took vampires to a different place than all the others. So, as not to ruin the movie I will briefly say that it is a story about what happens when all the humans are gone and there is no more blood to drink. It was a fairly clean movie even with a few bad words but it was very gory but not the ridiculous teenage horror flick gore, instead more well placed artsy gore. I watched the whole thing in one run of 8-9 miles. It gets an A and I would probably watch it again.