6/10
Original and entertaining first Universal Soldier followed by several and inferior sequels
20 November 2014
Acceptable action movie with two wooden but exceptional action men : Van Damme as Luc Deveraux and Lundgren as Andrew Scott as two soldiers who were killed in Vietnam, but the army has a secret project for reanimating dead people as near-perfect soldiers. It deals with a secret organization with top-secret technology, they have created a next-generation Universal Soldier - an elite fighter genetically altered into a programmable killing machine . With the "UniSol" under command by the military staff , Colonel Perry (Ed O'Ross), leading the way, they avoid terrorist attacks and robbing . But there a killer soldier , Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) , is executing a criminal spree , the only one who can stop him -as he is threatening to unleash a massacre- is Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a good and amiable soldier UniSol . Along the way Luc is supported by a likable reporter (Ally Walker) . Luc Deveraux's codename in the UNISOL program is GR44 and he will take on not one but various of these virtually indestructible warriors . Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), Deveraux's vicious UniSol enemy and Deveraux to confront a titanic duel among colossus . Now, these elite fighters are locked, loaded and programmed to kill; and the fate of millions hinges on this high-action showdown .

This moving picture contains noisy action , thrills , shootouts and fierce combats . From start to finish the action is unstoppable and frenetic . Thrilling screenplay dispenses absurd excitement as well as violence and lots of fights . Breathtaking action movie full of struggles , crossfire and tension , this is a fast-paced, stylized action-suspense film . Interesting plot based on a story from Richard Rothstein & Christopher Leitch and screenplay by Dean Devlin , also producer . They designed the special military costumes worn by the old and new model Unisols in US : TNG . And the UniSol's basic sidearm seen in throughout the film is a Magnum Research Inc 357 Magnum Desert Eagle .Though they're all supposed to be American the Universal Soldiers are played by a Belgian (Van Damme) a Swede (Lundgren) and a German (Ralf Moeller). The tension of this picture keeps snowballing as the clock ticks ever close for a groundbreaking as well as spectacular final . Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren have some scenes together at some impressive fighting .

The motion picture was well realized by Roland Emmerich , though Andrew Davis was attached to direct the picture based on a different screenplay. The budget being too high and creative differences arising, Carolco hired Roland Emmerich, fresh from his low budget feature Moon 44 . Roland made his feature length film in 1984 : ¨The Noah's ark principle¨ , he subsequently made ¨Joey¨ . In 1997 wrote, directed, and produced the critically acclaimed "Moon 44" . Filmmaker Roland Emmerich quickly understood the freedom and malleability that direct in USA presents and has gone about creating some incredibly interesting genre fare in ¨Universal Soldier¨, his first American movie in which displayed an acute understanding of the action genre . Roland ulteriorly directed 1994 Stargate , 1996 Independence Day , 1998 Godzilla , 2000 The Patriot , 2004 The day after tomorrow , 2008 : 10.000 , 2011 Anonymous and his last movie 2013 White House Down .

-Series : The best film of the series was the original ¨Universal soldier¨ by Roland Emmerich with Jean-Claude Van Damme , Dolph Lundgren , Ally Walker , Ed O'Ross ; it was followed by ¨Universal soldier : the return¨ with Jean-Claude Van Damme , Michael Jai White , Heidi Schanz , Xander Berkeley and Justin Lazard as subsequent Universal Soldier films ignore the events of The Return and outright contradict it in a number of ways ; while still an official entry, it is no longer considered part of the series canon . New sequel titled ¨Universal soldier : day of reckoning¨(2012) by John Hyams with Scott Adkins , Andrei 'The Pit Bull' Arlovski , Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme , but here they have not scenes together . And released theatrically in a few countries and Direct-To-Video (DVD & Blu-ray) in the rest of the world . And two TV films : ¨Universal soldier : Brothers in arms¨ (1998) by Jeff Woolnough with Matt Battaglia , Gary Busey , Burt Reynolds , Richard McMillan and Chandra West and ¨Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business¨ (1999) by Jeff Woolnough with Burt Reynolds Juan Chioran , Claudette Roche and Matt Battaglia .
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