Timecop Movie Review

Terminator rip-off is fodder for Van Damme followers with lots of action and good special effects (you weren't expecting acting too). In 2004, time travel has been perfected (despite gaping logical inconsistencies far too numerous to mention or care about). Due to the potential for misuse, a special Time Enforcement police unit has been established to prevent evil doers from changing the past to improve their fortunes in the present. Of course someone does. Evil Senator McComb (Ron Silver), who also happens to oversee the Timecop force, has been altering the past to insure his election to the presidency. Timecop Max Walker (Van Damme) must travel back in time to prevent this from occurring. It's also Walker's chance to alter his personal history since his wife Melissa (Mia Sara) was killed in an explosion he can now prevent. If only someone could travel back in time and prevent this film from having been made. Van Damme and director Peter Hyams re-teamed for the Die-Hard-in-a-Hockey-Arena flick, Sudden Death. The film is based on a Dark Horse comic.

1994 (R) 98m/C Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara, Bruce McGill, Scott Lawrence, Kenneth Welsh, Gabrielle Rose, Duncan Fraser, Ian Tracey, Gloria Reuben, Scott Bellis, Jason Schombing, Kevin McNulty, Sean O'Byrne, Malcolm Stewart, Alfonso Quijada, Glen Roald, Theodore Thomas; D: Peter Hyams; W: Mark Verheiden, Gary De Vore; C: Peter Hyams. VHS, LV MCA