Smell the Movies
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| Year: | 1999 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Mic Rodgers |
| Genre: | Super soldier sequel |
| Starring: | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Heidi Schanz, Michael Jai White, Xander Berkeley |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176269/ |
| Tagline: | Prepare to become obsolete |
| Favourite line: | "When I was a man I longed to be a machine. Now I'm better than both." |
Here we have another fine example of the fact that the fuckwits that rate movies on IMDB take life far too seriously.
Van Damme's back in the guise of Luc Deveraux, erstwhile Universal Soldier, now mysteriously alive and well (I bet it was explained in the first film, can't remember.)
The US Government is all set on shutting down the Universal Soldier project, which doesn't go down at all well with the computer that runs the show, SETH, which decides to take matters into its own hands and activate the units.
Inevitably, Deveraux is none too keen and tries to stop SETH and things get personal when SETH gets its hands(?) on Man Slamme's daughter.
Rated 3.9 on IMDB, this is nowhere near bad enough to warrant such a score. Sure, it's no 2001, but neither is it attempting to be, instead satisfied simply to exist as a rather silly, rather shallow sci-fi fight fest.
There's plenty of violence, plenty of kickboxing style fight sequences and, essentially, all the ingredients you would hope for from a Van Damme flick - a man who I must confess to having something of a secret gay crush on.
It's worth mentioning that this is the fourth in the series, but I skipped the middle two as Wham Bamme wasn't in them, so there was no lure for the likes of me. Enjoyed it.
Know I shouldn't.
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