1/14/2024 0 Comments Timecop full movie online free![]() Unfortunately, this "pod" as it appears to be, looks like it's made of cheap plastic and has a tiny little gas flame popping out of the back to simulate the powerful drive of the vehicle - except it looks just like a silly little gas flame. must climb inside a BACK TO THE FUTURE-inspired pod car which then races off down a chute. In order to travel back to the past, Van Damme and co. While cheesiness is sometimes an easing factor when watching bad '80s horror films, here it just seems embarrassing. What I disliked about TIMECOP is how cheesy it is. Mia Sara has the thankless role of Van Damme's murdered wife and finds yet more reasons to take her top off as often as possible, while the ever-reliable Ron Silver puts in a thoroughly slimy and totally villainous performance as a corrupt senator, who meets his end when his two selves (present and future) touch, turning him literally into a glob of goo - sadly, it has to be said, this effect isn't what it could have been. Other than that there are the usual assorted bruisings, beatings, whippings, and beltings with Van Damme kicking people in the face as his preferred tactic (whereas Seagal likes to break people's arms, and Schwarzenegger just shoots them). The most impressive computer effect here is where a man's arm is frozen and then kicked off by Van Damme, shattering into a million pieces. To help take our mind off the flimsy, and sometimes contrived, plot, there are a number of fight sequences (as to be expected from every Van Damme film ever made) which keep the attention as always, and one gob-smacking bit of CGI work. After all, it's a film dealing with time travel, and, as the writers of any time travel film or programme soon find out, its a head scratching theme from the start, and paradoxes soon turn up by the dozen. And, like his previous experiment in futuristic themes, TIMECOP is flawed. After the global success of UNIVERSAL SOLDIER in 1992 (not a bad little flick, but avoid the sequel like the plague), the Muscles from Brussels decided to make another science fiction film. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10 Slick time travel nonsense is about average for Van DammeĪnd here we have yet another Van Damme film from his height of Hollywood fame. Max brings him back for sentencing but not after telling Max that Senator McComb, the man in charge of TEC, sent him. He tracks down a former co-worker who went into the past to make money. Ten years later Max is still grieving but has become a good agent for the TEC. On the day he was chosen, some men attack him and kill his wife. A cop, Max Walker, is assigned to the group. It's called Time Enforcement Commission or TEC. Enough, indeed, to make this brainless romp a real blast.When the ability to travel through time is perfected, a new type of law enforcement agency is formed. While his characterisation - a heroic lump of granite - fits this comic absurdity perfectly as he kicks, punches, lumpenly wisecracks, leaps from exploding buildings, always gets his man and pops through time with an impressive custard-like plop. Van Damme once again bends and twists his muscular frame to superhuman excess, but his Belgian tonsils have all the flexibility of the Himalayas when it comes to splurting out his one-liners. Add in a time-twisting sub-plot involving Van Damme's dead-wife (Sara) and proof positive that making contact with yourself in the past has some unpleasant side-effects and you've got a rollicking, kickboxing variation on Groundhog Day. Now, though, he has to reckon with megalomaniac, slightly-psychotic senator Ron Silver tapping history for enough wealth to fund his presidental campaign and paying negligable heed to the value of human life and those don't-fiddle-with-the-past rules. In 2004, scowling, haunted law enforcement officer Van Damme patrols the ultra hi-tech time paths to make sure no scheming so and so zips back down the years to adjustment the present, a task he achieves mainly by kicking them very hard in the head. But hey, this is meant to be nonsense and despite its mind-boggling pretensions, it still delivers pure sub-cranial entertainment. It's a good thing the latest Van Damme actioner is based on a comic book, for if you give its sci-fi time-travel plot more than 10 seconds worth of thought, it disintegrates into a mish-mash of time-space continuum baloney.
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