"Timecop" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Van Damme, so vigorous and eager to please, seems to get better all the time. Indeed, the star looks so agile that he doesn't need the choppy editing that breaks up his action scenes, making his stunts look more artificial than they probably are.
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Van Damme's ability to leap onto a kitchen counter and land in a full split.
It concentrates on more tangible assets, like intermittent humor and Mr. "Timecop," directed in reasonably snappy fashion by Peter Hyams, indulges in fashionable morphing tricks without otherwise spending much time or money on futuristic touches. True, the film also indulges in those noxious wisecracks that are the bane of no-brainer action film making stars in this genre should be permanently prohibited from clobbering anyone while saying "Have a nice day." Another problem with the script is its giddy overcomplication, with characters eventually talking to their own earlier incarnations and saying things like "Never interrupt me when I'm talking to myself." "With your English," says his wife, "he doesn't have much choice." Van Damme jokes, after stopping that purse-snatcher early in the story.
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And the screenplay, based by Mark Verheiden on the comic series he created with Mike Richardson, even mentions the Belgian-born star's efforts to grapple with a new language. Short but sweet is the only hope when it comes to Van Damme dialogue. Van Damme what he thinks about at such moments. Reuben braces herself for a scary time trip and asks Mr.
Van Damme displays a nicely self-deprecating nature, as when Ms. Also well used is Gloria Reuben, a fellow time-police officer who plays the inevitable new partner with effervescent charm. Silver makes an entertaining villain in a film that finally supports Mr. Van Damme gets his own part of the process right. When the style is Junior Terminator, success lies in the details, and this time Mr. The fact is that he looks good, behaves affably and kicks with gusto, which is quite enough to satisfy the demands of "Timecop," a knotty but formulaic tale of the future. It's hard not to enjoy his energy, even if his acting gifts still leave a lot to be desired. Years of tireless persistence have begun to work in Mr. This time, through sheer force of willpower, he may just kick that barrier down.
As it is, he has languished as an also-ran, with a barrier between him and those surer-fire action stars whose names begins with S: Schwarzenegger, Seagal and Stallone. If he'd had better luck with any of his hard-working, flat-footed martial-arts films (among them "Bloodsport," "Kickboxer" and "Universal Soldier"), he could be well over the top by now. In other words, someone whose life is shaped by disappointments can have a different, happier fate once those letdowns have been revisited and set right.īy those rules, there might even be a time warp or parallel dimension in which Mr. And changes made in the past will alter the future.
IN the year 2004, according to the sci-fi thriller "Timecop," it will be possible for a law-enforcement officer like Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) to go back into the past and correct injustices.
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