quickly made film, with uninspired direction, no unique purpose, populated with safe stunts and lots of shooting.
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:3
Rotten:48
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: This movie fails on almost every level from second rate action to bad acting and a formulaic story.
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) is back! Having retired from his career as a Universal Soldier, he now serves as a technical advisor on a top-secret government project to design a stronger, smarter,... Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) is back! Having retired from his career as a Universal Soldier, he now serves as a technical advisor on a top-secret government project to design a stronger, smarter, generally more universal breed of cyborg soldier. However, SETH -- the supercomputer that controls the soldiers -- taking a cue from HAL, the discontent supercomputer from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, has an agenda of its own, which includes destroying its creators and implementing a reign of terror on humankind. Can the now peaceful Deveraux revert to his old ways and save the human race? [More]
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Heidi Schanz, Xander Berkeley
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Heidi Schanz, Xander Berkeley, Justin Lazard, Daniel Von Bargen, Bill Goldberg, James Black, Brent Hinkley, Woody Watson
Director: Mic Rodgers
Director: Mic Rodgers
Screenwriter: Richard Rothstein
Producer: Craig Baumgarten
Composer: Don Davis
Screenwriter: Dean Devlin
Reviews for Universal Soldier: The Return
Traditional movie standards don't apply here because this isn't a movie in any conventional sense.
The video-game level plot can be summarized as: Fight. Shoot. Kill. The compassionless violence has humans being slaughtered three at a clip.
What reads brutal and exhilarating in Blade and The Matrix is pure slapstick in this muddy-looking movie.
Judging from uniformly bottom-rung acting, the cast had some sort of pool going to see who could turn in the most ludicrously awful performance.
Unfortunately, the ultraviolence is the only thing about this film that is memorable.
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