10 Movie Scenes That Went Completely Over The Top

10. Mickey Rourke Explodes With A Tiger - Double Team

The 90s were a vastly different time - one in which one could see a trailer for a buddy action film starring Jean Claude Van Damme and basketball braggart/North Korea BFF Dennis Rodman and not think they had fallen into an alternate dimension. In 1997, it was just another in a long line of oddball pairings.

Rodman was at the height of his success as a player and a paparazzi show off, his behaviour off the court being politely described as unsportsmanlike. Then he got it in his head he wanted to venture into the movie business, seeing as how well that had turned out for Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal. So he took on the role of Yaz, an arms dealer who pairs with Van Damme's CIA agent to take down a terrorist planning to sell plutonium to Iraq (Mickey Rourke).

Every line of the film feels as if it were from an action script template on some screenwriting software; complete with personal vendettas, "you know him better than anyone" speeches, and the unlikely friendship that forms between Rourke and Van Damme, it's just played worse here.

That is, except for Mickey Rourke and his death. The actor was miles away from Sin City and credibility, so he settled for crap like this. The end of the film finds him standing on an active landmine in a Greek Stadium, which explodes just as he's attacked by a marauding tiger. It's best not to question such a slice of cinematic heaven.