The Last Mercenary

The Last Mercenary (Le Dernier Mercenaire, 2021) is a French action comedy starring Jean-Claude Van Damme that you can watch online on iFILM. A legendary secret service agent steps out of hiding and races back to Paris to rescue the grown son he has never met.

For twenty-five years, Richard Brumère lived off the grid, far from the law and his family. Then a careless government clerk strikes his son Archibald from a covert protection program, and the young man is promptly framed for arms and drug trafficking. The old ghost has no choice but to resurface, untangle a mess of overeager bureaucrats and mob meddling, and finally meet a kid who has no idea who his father really is.

Director David Charhon leans hard into absurd, self-aware humor, with Van Damme openly poking fun at his own unbeatable-action-hero image. Alongside Alban Ivanov and Éric Judor, the result is a breezy spoof of chases and fights that goes down easy when you're not after anything serious. Stream The Last Mercenary (2021) online on iFILM.