Timecop

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Year:	1994
Country of origin:	USA, Japan
Director:	Peter Hyams
Genre:	Time travelling actioner
Starring:	Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver
Rating:	2/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111438/
Tagline:	They killed his wife ten years ago. There's still time to save her. Murder is forever... until now.
Favourite line:	None worth mentioning

What a shambles.
I believe that this is Long Cord Man Slamme's most succesful movie, certainly in financial, box office terms, and I have to say I was hoping for good things. Instead, we get a sloppy, poorly thought out, sci-fi lite mess of a movie that was clearly cashing in on the sci-fi wave of the early nineties.

The plot, such as it is, involves a department being set up to prevent time crime. Apparently, it has become possible to travel back in time, change things for financial gain in the present (or steal gold from the past!) and return to reap your rewards. The American government isn't happy, so sets up TEC (Time Enforcement Commission) to counteract such indiscretions, by sending agents back to the point of the time crime. Inevitably, Long Cord is one such agent, but there's a twist: His wife was murdered ten years earlier, by time travelling, be-mulleted thugs.
Could he save her by travelling back and changing things?
Will his morality triumph over darkness?
Will he show his bare buttocks within the first ten minutes of the opening credits?
I think you can guess the answer to all three.

The main problem, for me, was the obsession with guns. Not enough use was made of Long Cord's indisputable fighting talents, and even when he did get up close and personal, the camera work was terrible, drawing right up close, rather than providing long shots, so it was nearly impossible to actually see what was happening. Add to this the fact that the plot is paper thin, and the main bad guy has as much menace as Macaulay Culkin, and it's all pretty weak.
Disappointed.