![]() 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. ![]() Overall, 'Timecop' is a action packed entertaining 90's sci-fi movie that's delivers all you could want for a Jean Claude Van Damme movie & is a film I highly recommend action fans check out.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. The action's spectacular, the fight scenes pack a punch & the pacing flows smoothly thanks to Peter Hyams skillful direction who edits some brilliant action sequences, the supporting cast is solid, especially Ron Silver who just oozes sinister charm as Aaron McComb making for a excellent love to hate type bad guy while Mia Sara does well in her supporting role of Melissa Walker. 'Time Cop' is Van Damme's biggest box office film to date with the muscles from Brussels on top form as a widowed cop named Max Walker who gets to display his usual array of martial art skills to great effect here in some bone crunching fight sequences as well as a heartfelt emotional performance of a man who's never come to terms with his wifes death.īut what makes Timecop a engaging movie is its script which deals with the consquences of time travel of how the past can change the present through a ripple effect but the movies narrative structure isn't a complicated plot to follow & weaves into a cleverly written story with excellent action set pieces combined with emotional drama which makes the audience care about the character as Walker eventually travels back in time to the past & meets his wife before she was murdered but if he saves her what will the consequences have on the future? 'Timecop' is another awesome Jean Claude Van Damme action classic, directed by Peter Hyams & co-stars the late Ron Silver who chews the scenery giving a memorable performance as the devious corrupt Senator McComb. Walker must travel across time to rescue her, change history & save the future from the corrupt Senator. ![]() Matuzak but soon finds his investigation of Senator Aaron McComb being thwarted by elements within the government which maybe connected to Walker's wife, Melissa who was killed 10 years ago. Police officer Walker is chosen to be recruited by TEC Cmdr. ![]() When mankind perfects time travel, the government establishes the Time Enforcement Commission to thwart criminal attempts to alter the timeline.
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