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Universal Soldier - The Return
1999
Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) is back! Having retired from his career as a Universal Soldier, he now serves as a technical advisor on a top-secret government project to design a stronger, smarter, generally more universal breed of cyborg soldier. However, SETH -- the supercomputer that controls the soldiers -- taking a cue from HAL, .. Read more
| Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Xander Berkeley, Daniel Von Bargen |
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| Director | Mic Rogers |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Universal Soldier - The Return
Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) is back! Having retired from his career as a Universal Soldier, he now serves as a technical advisor on a top-secret government project to design a stronger, smarter, generally more universal breed of cyborg soldier. However, SETH -- the supercomputer that controls the soldiers -- taking a cue from HAL, the discontent supercomputer from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, has an agenda of its own, which includes destroying its creators and implementing a reign of terror on humankind. Can the now peaceful Deveraux revert to his old ways and save the human race
| Starring | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Xander Berkeley, Daniel Von Bargen, Heidi Schanz, Justin Lazard, Bill Goldberg, James Black, Brent Hinkley, Woody Watson |
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| Director | Mic Rogers |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 20 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 23 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish Blu-ray: Spanish, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, English, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 18 Apr 2005 Blu-ray: 13 Apr 2009 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Sequels hit an all-time-low in this insultingly awful big-screen follow-up to the 1992 Jean-Claude Van Damme hit (which has already spawned two straight-to-video tales featuring Matt Battaglia in place of the original star). Van Damme's nice guy terminator is now a technical adviser on the secret government project that turns dead soldiers into killing machines. Naturally, they go on the rampage, leading to much thrill-free punching, kicking and riddling with bullets. Thinly plotted and painfully clichéd even by genre standards, this moronic mess doesn't even have the benefit of crowd-pleasing action sequences. Watching a bunch of dull characters hurtling through a plate glass window about 50 times is neither inventive nor exhilarating, proving perhaps that ex-stunt co-ordinators shouldn't be allowed a stab at feature film directing.
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Extremely dull action movie, with no sense of urgency about it, despite its loud explosions, thumping soundtrack, and endlessly repetitive fights.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Universal Soldier - The Return.
Universal 2, of course not a patch of the first, but never the less worth watching. Luc Devereaux, the only surviving member of the original Universal Soldier Team. He now works with Dylan Cotner, on a project to create and improve a new Universal Soldier. Their plan is for the Universal soldier or UNISOLS to be controlled by a computer they call SETH. When the government decides to terminate the project, which includes shutting down SETH. SETH, not wanting this to happen, takes steps to prevent this. He first kills Dylan. He then has himself transfered into a body. He then seeks out Luc Devereaux, who is the only person who knows the code that will stop his program from being deleted. So he sends out all the UNISOLS to get him. Luc must try and stay away until SETH program is deleted. But SETH has targeted his daughter as possible leverage.
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Rubbish
Like most 'follow-ons' you just get the feeling that they were only made, to make money on the strength of the original. Poor plot and cardboard acting. Lots of Kung-Fu style action which becomes very repetitive and boring. One to miss.
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Universal Soldier - The Return
Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) is back! Having retired from his career as a Universal Soldier, he now serves as a technical advisor on a top-secret government project to design a stronger, smarter, generally more universal breed of cyborg soldier. However, SETH -- the supercomputer that controls the ...
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