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Universal Soldier - The Return
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List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $9.95
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Brent Anderson, Maria Arita, Xander Berkeley, James Black (II), Karis Paige Bryant
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767836364
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 0767836367
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1999-12-28
Running Time: 83
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1999-08-20
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Editorial Reviews:
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Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) the heroic former Universal Soldier is about to be thrown into action once again. When SETH (Michael Jai White) the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior decides to take revenge and destroy its creators only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles SETH and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.System Requirements:Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme Michael Jai White Kiana Tom Daniel Von Bargen and Bill Goldberg. Directed By: Mic Rodgers. Running Time: 83 Mins. Color. This film is presented in both "Widescreen" and "Standard" formats. Copyright 1999 Columbia TriStar Home Video.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 043396039346 Manufacturer No: 03934
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Summary: Dolph & Jean with no shirts on? Hello that's the film for me!!!
Comment: Don't you hate it when the person you're trying to choose a movie with, insists you watch a movie because they haven't seen it for x amount of years, and you simply must watch it? Mind you, I have that idea most of the time myself, only to realise the film wasn't as good as I remembered it.
Universal Soldier was chosen mainly because I've only seen two Jean-Claude Van Damme movies - Sudden Death, and Streetfighter when I was going through my Kylie Minogue phase. (I was very young, give me a break, and I remember nothing about it.)
Two soldiers are serving in Vietnam. Van Damme plays Luc Deveraux, under the command of Sergeant Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren). When Scott completely loses it, and starts chopping off ears and wearing them as necklaces (bleurgh), Deveraux has an attack of conscience, and the two soldiers kill each other. After being listed as MIA, the soldiers are complicatedly regenerated, into lean, mean, killing machines, who's memories have been wiped. Now known as GR-44 (Van Damme) and GR-13 (Lundgren), everything is kept top secret.
That is until reporter Veronica Roberts (Ally Walker), with a nose for trouble, stumbles upon the top secretness, when her cameraman (?) is killed. Deveraux has flashbacks, and rescues her before she's killed.
Enter the cross country chase, with both soldiers stripping off, and lying in baths of ice (cold!), but gives the female viewers some nice shots of some very fit men. Did I just drool? It did feel a bit Terminator-esque at points, but thankfully, it managed to get past that, and turn into an actually alright movie. (I say alright, and I've given it four stars. Duh.)
For me, the great thing about this movie was Ally Walker, she was absolutely amazing, and she had lots of great lines. I was bugged continuously throughout the movie that I knew her from somewhere, but the only thing I recognised was a very small role in While You Were Sleeping. There was a great rapport between her and Deveraux, and although the plot is a bit iffy at points (not all the way through), it was made all the better by some great leading characters.
Universal Soldier is completely entertaining, a little gem of a movie, and yes, it does have an iffy plot, but what the hell? It's brilliant.
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Summary: HILARIOUSLY STUPID 7 OUT OF 10
Comment: When I got Universal Soldier it came as a two movies for the price of one deal. It was packaged with Resident Evil: Extinction, so I assumed since Extinction was quite successful in theaters and in DVD sales that Universal Soldier never paid off costs and now Sony Pictures is still trying to pay it off. The story is about a dude who is in the military and goes through day to day life until the artificial intelligence Seth goes apes*** and starts making the other soldiers kill everyone. So he must save the day and his kidnapped daughter... yawn. Now to talk about the bad. To start off the actors are terrible and sound really cheesy. The action is incredibly dumb as well, and you will laugh at it for how bad it is. The story is bland for a science-fiction film, and well, just about everything is stupid. So why a 7 rating? It reminds me of cheesy old films that I still enjoy watching that were made decades ago. I got a kick out of this movie because of how hilariously stupid it is.
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Summary: The war is not over for the unisols and you
Comment: Two soldiers kill each other in the Vietnam war. Their bodies are packed in ice and later regenerated to become cyborg-like soldiers for special missions. Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren play the roles of soldiers very convincingly. Van Damme is the good guy and Lundgren is the bad guy. There is also a beautiful journalist lady, which hangs out with Van Damme.
There is a lot of military action and shooting in this movie. The universal soldiers take part in resolving hostage situations. The first site is a spectacular-looking water dam at a hydro power station. There is also a futuristic-looking huge armoured truck in which the universal soldiers (unisols) live. Their bodies are kept at low temperature and they have to get medical injections in order to stay alive.
There is a large element of fiction in this movie, because dead people cannot be brought back to life in the way that the movie suggests. However, if you suspend disbelief, I'm sure that you will enjoy this high-gear non-stop action flick. I don't give it a full 5 star rating, because there are too many shootings, gruesome bloody scenes and the restaurants, hotels and gas station in the movie look very run-down. But it made me think that we are all universal soldiers who have a special mission in our own lives. Do you agree?
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Summary: Ultimate Combat
Comment: Universal Soldier is one of the best action films from Jean Claude Van Damme. The film was released in 1993. The movie is based on an awfully chilly idea of a secret government project to use the reanimated corpses of dead soldiers as Universal Soldiers. These soldiers are really killer combat zombies that are programmed to receive commands remotely. They are extremely efficient killer machines that are impervious to pain, are quick to heal, and pretty much unstoppable although they tend to overheat if they stay active for too long.
In this movie, Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as a man who was supposedly killed in the war in Vietnam. He is revived in a secret biochemical, regenerative experiment as a cyborg that is controlled by the people who made him. The project initially proceeds according to plan. However, Van Damme starts recalling memories in a series of flashes from his past, and he eventually remembers the bloodthirsty, psychotic and vindictive Sergeant (Dolph Lundgren), who is also now turned into a cyborg, and is evil to the core. The fight between them resumes from where they left when they were alive. The action really gets hot when van Damme regains his memory and eventually leads to his freedom from being controlled by his creators. But the creators are not prepared to let Van Damme go free without them doing everything they can to get him back and under their control once again.
Both Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren play their respective roles exceptionally well. The pretty and sexy Alley Walker, who plays the reporter who joins Van Damme on his fight against the Universal Soldier, also gives a good performance.
Those who love action movies will be thrilled by the fierce fist fights, unforgettable stunts and kickboxing action that will compel you to watch it again and again. I recommend anybody who likes Van Damme movies or good action movies to get "Universal Soldier." It does not have the best storyline or the best plot, but it is entertaining and exciting all the same.
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Summary: [Two and a half stars out of five] Average from the word go; musclehead Bill Goldberg, the ex-Pro DLm ends his movie career here
Comment: I know, Goldy got another movie later,
but here we see why he ISN'T THE next
'Rock'. Supoorting cast is pretty bad
and belgian kickboxing Champ Van Dam
just isn't Schwarzenegger (that says
a lot!) and movie night filming doesn't
help! Props and fake US army set up
looks like something out of a Return
of the Living Dead set! Not really any-
thing to right home about unless you're
into Bill Goldberg, "Next stop, intensive
care...", just like Van Dam and B.G.'s
careers after this movie. Can you beleive
Van Dam did (another) sequel?!
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