I'm deducting a star for the full-screen format of the DVD release. Timecop remains Van Damme's highest-grossing film (his second to break the 100 million barrier for a worldwide gross) as a lead actor. He's not Olivier or anything, but for this sort of movie, he's _way_ better than his detractors like to admit.) Ron Silver co-stars as Van Dammes cunning adversary in what People magazine touts as 'clever and original, Timecop is a thinking mans movie.
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(People who criticize Van Damme's acting may not have seen this movie or some of his more recent work. Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in the sci-fi thriller that mixes hard-hitting action with awesome special effects, romance and murder. And you don't have to be a Van Damme fan to enjoy it. What, for example, is this nonsense about people exploding if they come into physical contact with their earlier or later selves? The physical explanation given for it in the film is just silly, not only according to 'real' physics but even on the film's own internal logic.īut if you can manage to rationalize this stuff (or at least suspend incredulity long enough to watch the thing), you'll find a well crafted SF drama that succeeds extremely well in its strictly dramatic aspects. And in this film he's pitted against Ron Silver, well cast as a crooked politician who wants to rearrange things so that he becomes dictator of America.Įven if you buy the theory of time travel involved here, you've still got some camels to swallow. So there will have to be some time-travel cops who intervene to preserve the 'real' timestream. When a cop catches on to his scheme he must go back in time and catch him before he and his wife are murdered. Since (according to this scheme) a physically feasible means of time travel not only exists but can be used to change the past, there will be all sorts of baddies around who will try to adjust things to their own advantage. In the year 2004 a corrupt politician is secretly using a time travel device to manipulate history and financial markets and eliminate any who get in his way. (As of _The Cat Who Walks Through Walls_, RAH was officially allowing the past, and therefore the future, to be changed.)įor this film, director Peter Hyams and screenwriters Mark Verheiden and Mark Richardson (also the writers of the Dark Horse comic on which the film is based) borrow liberally but loosely from Poul Anderson's Time Patrol stories. But as Heinlein found in later life, an unalterable past/future just doesn't make for very exciting drama. Heinlein's early time-travel stories ('By His Bootstraps', 'All You Zombies'), or even of the first _Terminator_ film. SF readers be warned: it does _not_ have the logical tightness of Robert A. It's also a fairly well constructed and enjoyable SF movie. It's not (just) a Van Damme vehicle, though it works well enough for fans of the Muscles from Brussels. (_Somewhere in Time_, for example, is primarily a romance, and the brilliant _12 Monkeys_ isn't about "action.") Of course there's Nicholas Meyer's excellent _Time After Time_, which isn't as well known as it should be.Īnd there's this one. There have been time-travel _movies_, but they're generally not action flicks. Walker soon crosses paths with a corrupt politician (played by the late Ron Silver) who has been using time travel to advance his political career."Apart from the _Terminator_ series, there haven't been all that many SF time-travel action thrillers. In the film - set in the far future of 2004 - Van Damme plays Max Walker, who works for the Time Enforcement Commission, a government police force that’s been created to ensure that the newly perfected time travel technology isn’t abused.
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The film wound up becoming a box office success and helped to launch a sequel (direct-to-video) and a spin-off TV series (cancelled after nine episodes). The project is “ Timecop,” a remake of the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi action film which was simultaneously released as a comic that same year. That doesn’t faze the studio heads, especially not Universal who are planning on doing a reboot of their own. Was anyone really asking for a “ Total Recall” remake, for example? The answer, as it turned out last year, was no.
Still, there are those cases where Hollywood announces a remake and it’s a little perplexing. Hollywood sequels, remakes, and reboots have become so commonplace these days that it should no longer register any surprise when you hear news that a studio is developing yet another one.
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