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Blackjack  (1998)
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Black Jack
Black-Jack
John Woo's Blackjack
Tagline(s):Hired to protect. Trained to kill. Forced to survive.
 He's Just Been Dealt... A Deadly Hand.
 Trained To Protect... Now He Must Survive!
 Over 100 territories have committed. GET IN ON THE ACTION.
 A Film by John Woo
Nomination Year: 2026
SYNOPSIS: 

Fresh off the success of Face/Off, John Woo made ... a USA Network TV movie starring Dolph Lundgren? Why, yes. Yes, he did. Dolph is an ex-U.S. Marshal now working as a bodyguard. When protecting his casino owner BFF's tween daughter from an attack by mob hitmen, he is temporarily blinded by a flashbang. This doesn't stop him and the girl from defeating the hitmen, but it does leave him with a debilitating fear of the color white. A while later, BFF and his wife get killed anyway, and Dolph become's the daughter's guardian. Meanwhile, his cop buddy Fred Williamson is gunned down while providing security for a supermodel, who's being targeted by a deranged stalker. As a favor to Fred's wife, Dolph takes on the case despite his mental injury. What follows is some recognizably John Woo action sequences, as translated through a cable TV budget and the need to contrive ways to trigger Dolph's phobia of the color white -- such as a gunfight in a milk processing plant, for example. Nor will it ever be explained where the deranged stalker got an army of motorcycle-riding hitmen armed with anti-tank missiles. Or the sudden lurch from over-the-top action sequences to the Phantom of the Opera ending. We won't even learn whether the love interest is meant to be the sexy supermodel or the sexy psychologist. Whatever, if you wanted coherence, you probably wouldn't be watching a John Woo movie or Dolph Lundgren movie. Or, for that matter, a Fred Williamson movie (which you're not).

Greg Pearson
Smithee Award Nominations
Smithee Award Winner! Best One-Liner
Lactose Intolerant
Jack is getting his butt handed to him, because the villain figured out his weakness to the color white and arranged a fight in a pool of...milk. Riiight. When confronted by the bad guy, Jack says, "No...I'm lactose intolerant!"
"Cutting Butter With A Chainsaw"
Where Did He Get the Army of Kamikaze Dirtbike Assassins?
Bikers attack limo.
"WHAT?!"
An Unlikely Team-Up
An unstoppable combination: Dolph Lundgren and an 11-year-old girl.
Directors
Director Claim to Fame
John Woo Very famous director of some good films like...uh...Face/Off? Red Cliff? A Better Tomorrow? Hard Boiled? Paycheck
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Dolph Lundgren Jack Devlin Bulgy-bicep action star, supposedly brainy as well as brawny. His Masters in Chemical Engineering sure doesn't show on-screen. Been in a TON of Bad action flicks, too many to recount here. Suffice it to say we have a saying in the Smithees: "We prefer our movies like we prefer our tuna -- without Dolph in." 
Kate Vernon Dr. Rachel Stein Daughter of famous actor John Vernon. Kate was Sophia in Malcom X, Benny Hanson in Pretty in Pink, and Ellen Tigh on "Battlestar Galactica" (the newer, not-as-good one). 
Phillip MacKenzie Rory Gaines Was Bill Bliss in Hollywoodland; Brother Enoch on "Shadowhunters"; The CIA doctor on "The Company"; and a thrashing zombie in Dawn of the Dead
Kam Heskin Cinder James Caitlin Richards Deschanel on "Sunset Beach"; Carrie Carson in Dirty Love; Candy in Catch Me If You Can; Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (2003) 
Fred Williamson Tim Hastings King of Blaxploitation. Known as "The Hammer." Except in 1990: Bronx Warriors, where he's "The Ogre" and Vic Morrow is "Hammer." 
Padraigin Murphy Casey Child actor who left the biz after three TV shows ("Real Kids, Real Adventures"; "Odyssey 5"; "Goosebumps") and this. 
Saul Rubinek Thomas Fairly prolific character actor who pops up now and again. You probably know him as Artie Neilsen, keeper of "Warehouse 13". But he was also W.W. Beauchamp in Unforgiven; Murray Markowitz on "Hunters"; Donny Douglas on "Frasier"; Alan Mesnik on "Ink"; and the evil guy who tried to "collect" Data on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." 
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