Release Year: 1992 Rating: R Duration: 99 minutes Director: Roland Emmerich
synopsis
Luc is a genetically enhanced supersoldier pitted against his former comrades in arms as he tries to remember his past. Andrew is also a universal soldier who, driven by a hatred born decades before in Vietnam, wages a deadly pursuit against traitorous Luc. But something goes wrong and these war machines begin to revert to their past selves and slip away from their creators.
cast
Jean Claude Van Damme as Luc Deveraux/GR44
quote
Soldier: They swam a mile and a half in four minutes?
Colonel Perry: They're eight seconds behind schedule.
If you watch any television at all, you have by now likely seen over a dozen commercials for this summer's latest action/exploitation film, UNIVERSAL SOLDIER. The commercials look good -- great stunts -- and they sound good -- with T2's soundtrack in the background, no less -- and they even manage to show us brief glimpses of Dolph Lundgren doing something other than standing in one place looking like he's waiting for someone to change his batteries. But yet something doesn't seem quite right, does it? Something -- talent? inspiration? originality? -- seems to be missing, and even the studio's advertising department seems to know it, given the strange come-on we get in at least some of the commercials: that UNIVERSAL SOLDIER is from the same studios that brought us TOTAL RECALL and T2.
