In recent interviews, Jean-Claude Van Damme has been saying his latest kick-'em-up epic, "Double Impact," has a love scene so the film will appeal to a wider audience, one that includes women.

That may be a nice sentiment — or it may simply be a mercenary sentiment — but Van Damme's idea of a love scene is a soft-lens, soft-core moment as he and newcomer Alonna Shaw roll around nude in a paranoid fantasy sequence.

So much for romance.