If you like Van Damme, this is a nice flick for you. Like his fellow "warriors" Schwarzenegger and Stallone he shows that he can actually do more than just fist- and gunfights. Well aged, so to say.

Lukas is no new Bloodsport or Lionheart and the story really provides nothing new but good acting and a good production make Lukas very entertaining with a good shot of nostalgia - recommended, if you like to watch a new Van Damme.

The Bouncer is an extremely grim & gloomy dark tale of a single father who works nights at sleazy clubs as a bouncer but can't wait to get home to see his daughter.

This is a very dark story, realism is splashed all over this Drama/Thriller & van damme gives probably his greatest performance of his career!!!

I like most grew up watching his 80's & 90's action films & have always been a huge fan of his as i am of Schwarzenegger & Stallone, so IT'S really nice to see van damme in a way long overdue dramatic role with serious acting even though it's another straight-to-dvd B-movie it's made with depth & character.

Van damme play's Lucas as a very lost & damaged man who only lives for his daughter.

The music is sometimes sad & dreary, it suits the gritty & grim tone perfectly as does the cinematography that captures the depressing surroundings.

A fantastic performance from van damme & a good solid gritty & violent story, just the ending ruined it abit for me but this is way better than most direct to dvd films & a million times better than nearly all of steven seagal's dvd flicks.

As all my action heroe's have aged & I've gotten older too, i see now that Van Damme is the best actor of those old school action stars & find that Van Damme gives the best performances in his films even if their low-budget B-movies & i find Van Damme to be the most down-to-earth of those guys & has become my favourite action star.

Although he was too old for the part, Jean-Claude Van Damme was effective as the granite-faced character Lukas, a nightclub bouncer with a checkered past. The film is a by-the-numbers action picture with the brooding widower Lukas struggling to take care of his daughter. Lukas gets linked up with a dangerous forgery operation. In effect, he is blackmailed by a dirty police officer to feed inside information about a large-scale operation of printing fake money.

The most interesting character beyond Lukas is Lisa Zaccherini, who is an expert forger needed for the print run of the money. Lisa's past is fuzzy, but it is clear that she is another victim in being forced to engage in the counterfeiting.

The moody atmosphere and slowpacing are drawbacks in this standard thriller set in Belgium. Van Damme's character Lukas is described as "a survivor who is able to adapt to anything." It is unfortunate that there was not a more creative ending that tied together the loose ends of the counterfeiting scheme, the police sting, and the ultimate fate of Lukas and his daughter.