Universal Soldier - The Return DVD Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bill Goldberg

This listing is for Universal Soldier: The Return DVD Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bill Goldberg.  

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bill Goldberg, Heidi Schanz, Michael Jai White, Xander Berkeley

Director: Mic Rodgers

Producers: Adam Merims, Allen Shapiro

Writers: Christopher Leitch, Dean Devlin, John Fasano, Richard Rothstein, William Malone

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

MPAA rating: R (Restricted)

Media Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, AC-3

Run time: 1 hour and 23 minutes

Release date: December 28, 1999

Subtitles: English

Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English

Studio: Sony Pictures

Number of discs: 1

Luc Deveraux (Van Damme), the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Jai White), the supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles Seth and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.

Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux is back. Jean-Claude Van Damme gallantly attempts to resurrect interest in his tepid career with this action-riddled roller-coaster ride. Set in the not-too-distant future, Deveraux has been employed by the government to oversee the new UniSol project. What is UniSol? It's a military plan to turn dead soldiers into invincible fighting machines (see the first Univeral Soldier for more details). It's also the scheme that went horribly wrong when the soldiers turned psycho, killing the scientists who created them. Not deterred by this early setback, the government replicates the project. This time they figure that they can control the soldiers through a supercomputer called SETH (kind of like HAL in 2001, but smarter). But, as we all know, machines frequently break down. Pretty soon the computer comes to the conclusion that it's superior to humans and therefore it must destroy them. Uh oh.

Van Damme to the rescue. The muscles from Brussels heroically leap into action confronting the dangerous soldiers led by Bill (WCW) Goldberg and Michael Jai White (last seen in Spawn). The action is impressive and the stunts are engrossing. Goldberg is charismatic as the cartoonish villain who sneers and snouts while muttering macho things like, "I'm gonna kill that guy." Van Damme looks more at home in a production that he is not directing, and for once he lets his fists do the talking. Ironically, the movie is missing the gloss and big-budget pathos of its predecessor (created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich), making the original decidedly better. 

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