![]() The picture provides him with his best acting opportunities to date - for example, the touching scene in which he is shown in 2004 watching 10-year-old videotapes of his dead wife. Van Damme gets plenty of chances to be heroic, but his human side gets a workout, too. Double Impact (Action 1991) Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis & Alonna Shaw part 1. Double Impact (Action 1991) Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis & Alonna Shaw part 2. The air ripples, then settles back down, like water. Double Impact (1991) Jean-Claude Van Damme Action,Comedy,Crime Movie Part 2. Director Peter Hyams, who served as his own director of photography, uses computer morphing to indicate the schism that the time machine opens. ![]() Of 1929, the movie is not a time travelogue but a thriller that shuttles back and forth between 20. The second deals with the machinations of a ruthless, maniacal senator named McComb (Ron Silver) to manipulate the past in order to Jean-Claude Van Damme is a time-enforcement officer make himself president of the United States.Īside from a brief dip into Civil War times and a visit to Wall Street after the stock market crash The personal one concerns the loss Agent Walker is carrying - his wife (Mia Sara) was killed by intruders in 1994. Two plot strains run through "Timecop," a personal one and a political one. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Time-Enforcement Officer Walker, who is part of a government agency set up to make sure no one goes into the past and does anything to change the present. The picture is set in a near future when time travel is possible. 1994’s Timecop sends Van Damme on a time-travel adventure with action and Back to the Future-type temporal paradoxes galore. It's a power the film, a satisfying science-fiction thriller, takes full advantage of. More of a spy thriller than a full-blown action movie. Timecop is not the greatest when it comes to plot-holes.But unlike the recent version of HG Wells Time machine, it is a very fun movie.And one of Van Dammes best.The desire to go back in time to change things - or just to visit - is so central to the experience of being alive and stuck in time that "Timecop" has a built-in power. in the film while spotting parallels with Jean-Claude Van Damme's Timecop (1994). to the action films of the 80s, featuring Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Van Damme. Ron Silver is a great Bad Guy here as McComb.He gets to shoot, beat people up,Snarls And looks frankly maniacal at times.Mia Sara is engaging and looks beautiful as ever.Bruce McGill has some funny bits as Van Dammes Boss.The very sexy Gloria Ruben also shows up as Walkers new partner. I've seen a lot of his movies and the next thing you know I'm doing. Commando Ninja is an Action/Comedy film written and directed by Benjamin. ![]() Timecop benefits from having a talented director Like Peter Hyams behind the wheel for this one.He stages everything well,Keeps the action and plot flowing,Special FX are engaging,and gets a very good performance by Van Damme.Who comes off vulnerable and like a real person.The production values are very good here too.It is also pretty decent political backdrop/Sci-fi combo. In 1994 Time-travel has become a possible reality.Washington decides that it needs to be "policed" from criminal activity and the paradox's of undoing life as we know it.Cut to 2004:Enter Van Damme as Walker the on-the-rocks time-cop who uncovers a plot to swindle the presidency by a corrupt Senator McComb played by Ron Silver,who actually engineered the murder of Walkers-wife(Mia Sara).Can Max stop McComb?Can he go back and save his wife?After some decent gunfights and roundhouses you'll have to find out. ![]() Timecop is probably remembered as his last good movie before he got into a rut of mediocre(though successful) action flicks.Its also the most mainstream picture he was ever in for my money.
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