Svenstadt This movie takes alot of heat because of the science of time travel. I thought it was very consistent, and as with Mel Gibson's Braveheart, it isn't so much historical as it is 'historically intriguing' that makes a good movie. This movie likewise is just scientifically plausible enough that it works well. Van Damme really shows acting peak here by humanising the action a little, I mean, I realize he's no Shakespeare, but he gives a well-rouned performance. I will watch anything with him in it, TBH. Other good movies with him include: The Quest, Universal Solider, Hard Target. This movie starts with a man posing as a Civil War soldier; in reality, he is a criminal who knows a shipment of gold is on its way and is there to steal it. He kills the U.S. army soldiers in the convoy with a futuristic weapon. The next scene is very good, it involves a U.S. Senate meeting where the previous scene's events were discussed. It is in this scene that the decision is made to create the TEC, a law enforcement organization. One thing I found intriguing, having studied real-life cops, is that Walker does not arrest or charge past versions of people who have since become criminals, like the past version of McComb. Such things were probably rules of ethics that he has to follow. This movie loses a star because some of the speculation as to the near-future are much too hokey to be believed. They apparently drive around in self-driving cars that look like total crap and don't even have windows. They look like something the homeless would drive around in. Also, I didn't like alot of the set designs or props, which seemed a little too forced. Someone in sets was really given a crappy job to do. The digital effects were actually pretty good.

andrew-repko This movie is Big Fun. As described by my roommate Tommy, who's never seen this movie: If you haven't seen this movie you're "missing out on cinematic gold" and boy is he right. TIMECOP! YAHHH! TIMECOP!I love how this movie plays fast and loose with commonly perceived Time Travels theories. I get it back to the future you guys are the gold standard but F the right off. Another thing that was a slam dunk, how well this movie predicted future technology (Self-Driving Cars, Smart Houses, Voice controlled Electronics!) and those future cars are so freaking sweet. Now to the deets (aka details, damn millennials!). JVCD is an incredible in this movie. I assume he learned all of his amazing karate moves from Pro-Wrestling Great and his brother Rob Van Dam (RVD). Some internet theories claim they're twins, but I digress. I'm still not sure if JVCD is the good guy in this film even though the filmmaker is obviously trying to shove that notion down our throats. JVCD goes up against a senator IMHO is using the tools provided him, to make a run at the white house. The senator, Senator McComb, who's positioned as the "bad guy" isn't all that bad. He's trying to do what America has tried to do for the past fifty years, self fund his Presidential run rather than take money from big business and special interest groups. I know, i know, he's stealing money in time, thus messing up the future, but frig off. What should they care after it happens, it changes time forever and no one is worse off. Anyway, he wants to just become a truly un-corruptable President and he should be applauded. But this is where he messed up, he frigged with the wrong dude. JVCD! He sent his goons back in time, for what appears to be no reason whatsoever, to Murder JVCD and JVCD's wife. BIG MISTAKE, he should have stayed in his lane, because he couldn't kill JVCD even if he had all of the best goons with all of the best Mullets (Spoiler Alert: His Goons have some beautiful mullets). The good thing is, since Mr. McComb made this critical mistake, we were blessed (as the audience) to get two Jean- Claude's at once. The only thing better then one JVCD kicking butt, is two JVCD's kicking butt and the only thing better than that is Two JVCD's kicking butt while one of the JVCD's has a Mullet. Sidenote: this movie is littered with incredible Mullets, Classic '94. But hands down the best part of the movie is when Mr. McComb dies at the end of the movie. They made up this awesome rule that you can't come in contact with your future/past self at anytime (aka same matter can't occupy the same space(see the title of the review)). With time running out on the Timecop, Future JVCD, to save his wife in the past, he utters that awesome phrase "Same Matter Can't Occupy the Same Space" and kicks Past McComb into future McComb and then amazing happens. its hard to put into words but virtually two bodies meld together and then turn into the Slime from Ghostbusters 2 and melts into the floor never to be heard from again. Truly amazing CGI work by any standard!Few final thoughts; This movie has so many layers and sweet little tidbits. For instance its the film debut of Tay Zonday (The Chocolate Rain Guy, have you listened to chocolate rain recently? There is a line in the song that says "Chocolate Rain, Only in the Past is what they say" WOAH!!!! How eerie is that! when he says "the Past" he is referring to Time and maybe his first role in the hit movie Timecop, which is the movie you are reading a review about). Also another nice little Easter Egg in this movie, is the Sheriff from My Cousin Vinny. Now that's a great movie "I'm done with this Guy!" Vinny gets it.

sol- Set in a future in which time travel is possible, a cop in charge of policing the process tries to stop a crooked politician from changing the past in order to alter the future in this Jean-Claude Van Damme action thriller. Some of the pseudoscience is a little shaky (especially the need of vehicles to travel to the past, but not to travel back) and not all the ripples in time stuff adds up, however, the film has plenty of interesting ideas and some magnificent anachronistic action scenes as modern weapons appear in the past, most notably Wall Street in 1929. Van Damme performs some terrific action stunts too. There is an especially remarkable moment when he jumps on a sink (it does not sound like much, but it is breathtaking to watch). Unfortunately, Van Damme is around a zero in the acting department, never really conveying much emotion and hard to listen to whenever he speaks. The filmmakers seem to know this though and Van Damme is sans- dialogue for the most part with the most memorable lines left to Ron Silver (perfectly cast and as cunning as ever). Some have written 'Timecop' off as a mere action vehicle, but great as the choreography may be, it is the scenes of Van Damme and Silver talking to their younger selves that stick out in the mind. This is a more ambitious film than it often tends to get credit for, even if it may not be a total success.

Leofwine_draca And here we have yet another Van Damme film from his height of Hollywood fame. 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. And, like his previous experiment in futuristic themes, TIMECOP is flawed. 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. 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.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. 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). 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.What I disliked about TIMECOP is how cheesy it is. While cheesiness is sometimes an easing factor when watching bad '80s horror films, here it just seems embarrassing. In order to travel back to the past, Van Damme and co. must climb inside a BACK TO THE FUTURE-inspired pod car which then races off down a chute. 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. On top of this, the various baddies all have ridiculous '80s costumes on, seemingly left from a previous Van Damme flick entitled CYBORG.To add to the mainstream appeal, there's a heck of a lot of nudity and explicit sexual content too, much more than the brief instances in most Van Damme films. And what's up with Van Damme's permed hairdo, which makes him look like a sissy? Along with this and the fact that he has to do the splits as much as humanly possible, it just makes him look like a poseur. On the lighting side the ending is far too dark and we don't get much of a chance to see Van Damme taking out the bad chaps. There are the expected bad wisecracks, good characters who turn bad, an inventive death or two (two soldiers are suddenly ignited in the flames of a pod car) and plenty more reasons to keep watching. And If you can get over the silly contraptions, contrived set-ups and ridiculous appearances of the villains, then you might just find yourself enjoying this slick piece of nonsense. After all, time travel is invariably interesting in whatever form it takes.