For as fearsome and fit an action hero as Jean-Claude Van Damme would become in the late 1980s and early ’90s, the “Muscles from Brussels” literally begged for his breakthrough role. Van Damme was a European karate champ desperate to crack into the movie business, but his only “major” credit was as a background dancer in the 1984 hip-hop favorite Breakin’ (a clip that has become internet famous in more recent years). So in addition to attempting to sneak onto Sylvester Stallone’s property to ...