Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]When I was a kid (as I am sure was the case with a lot of us that grew up watching action films in the 1990s), we can all remember the good ole days when the movies that Jean-Claude Van Damme (Time Cop) didn’t suck!
Well that isn't entirely fair of me to say, the main reason that I say that, is that for the last many years, Van Damme has been doing really low grade films that didn't sound to good to me (although, I have heard that he has been picking up the pace, what with having recently done, The Expendables 2 (2012) and the latest sequel in the Universal Soldier franchise!
And speaking of the Universal Soldier franchise, I thought that I would review the first Universal Soldier movie as this movie holds a special place for me as this was the first movie that I ever saw of his in the Theater!
That’s right folks, you see, this movie, which was directed by: Roland Emmerich (The Noah’s Ark Principal), and which stars Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren (The Punisher) and Ally Roberts (The Profiler), told the story of how in the early 90s, the government decides to revive dead Soldiers that had died in combat at some point in the last 30 years and enhance them in every way so that they could become a sort of genetic super solder…
The only problem is that two of the genetic super soldiers that died in Vietnam and had been brought back to life for this program, by the name of Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) and Andrew Scott (Lundgren)…
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The Universal Soldiers in action![/caption]Now before Deveraux had passed away, he was sort of a mild mannered good soldier that was fighting for his country like any other good soldier would have done, but Andrew Scott had been suffering from combat fatigue and was starting to get more and more violent in the way that he would kill the enemy!
In the end though, as both Luc and Andrew begin to remember their old lives, Luc starts to want to get back to the life he had led before he died in Vietnam, but before he can do so, he has to try and stop Andrew Scott from continuing with the bloody massacre in the United States in the early 90s, that he had started in Vietnam decades before!
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Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) a re-animated super soldier who is about to remember who he really is![/caption]For me, I have to admit that I still freakin love this movie! It had a great cast of action super stars at what I still believe to be the height of their careers, it had a fun (somewhat believable) story line, as well as fantastic special effects that I still think are pretty awesome!
All in all, if you have a chance to see this movie, then I highly recommend it, it is a fun one, that you might like as well!
http://youtu.be/gBUTgd4M6w8
