Van Damme gets plenty of chances to be heroic, but his human side gets a workout, too. The air ripples, then settles back down, like water. Director Peter Hyams, who served as his own director of photography, uses computer morphing to indicate the schism that the time machine opens. Of 1929, the movie is not a time travelogue but a thriller that shuttles back and forth between 20. The second deals with the machinations of a ruthless, maniacal senator named McComb (Ron Silver) to manipulate the past in order to Jean-Claude Van Damme is a time-enforcement officer make himself president of the United States.Īside from a brief dip into Civil War times and a visit to Wall Street after the stock market crash The personal one concerns the loss Agent Walker is carrying - his wife (Mia Sara) was killed by intruders in 1994.
Two plot strains run through "Timecop," a personal one and a political one. Timecop (1994) Full Movie Vote: 5.8 Quality: HD Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill Director. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Time-Enforcement Officer Walker, who is part of a government agency set up to make sure no one goes into the past and does anything to change the present. In the process, they discover a deadly game of cat and mouse behind his disappearance. A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. The picture is set in a near future when time travel is possible. With Chuck Pfarrer, Robert Apisa, Arnold Vosloo, Lance Henriksen. It's a power the film, a satisfying science-fiction thriller, takes full advantage of. Enough, indeed, to make this brainless romp a real blast.The desire to go back in time to change things - or just to visit - is so central to the experience of being alive and stuck in time that "Timecop" has a built-in power. 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. Mia Sara.Timecop (1994) - Theatrical Trailer HD (Official)IMDB. This fun sci-fi action movie from the 90s was based on an original story from Dark Horse Comics, and placed Van. 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. Peter Hyams Timecop is the highest grossing film of Van Dammes career. 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. in the film while spotting parallels with Jean-Claude Van Damme's Timecop (1994). 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. I've seen a lot of his movies and the next thing you know I'm doing.
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