Title: Timecop
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: This has Jean Claude Van Damme in it, as well as Mia Sara (who is probably best known as Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend), but beyond that I’m not really sure. It’s also based upon a Dark Horse Comic Book Series, one of the first movies to be made that aren’t about Marvel or DC.
Introduction: I bought this movie on VHS at Good Will, though I had originally seen it back in 1994 when it first came out.
Location: This is the most complex question of all of these for this movie. It’s not so much as to where this movie takes place, but when. JCVD plays a cop named Max who lives in 1994. Then he goes into the future, which is 2004. Then he ends up going back to 1994, which at that point becomes the past because he sees a younger version of himself. Somewhere in between his first trip to the future and his first trip back to the past, the present seems to disappear. If you think about it too much, your head will literally explode.
Plot: An evil politician is using time travel to secure his spot as President and basically owning the entire U.S. government. Max (played by JCVD) is the only one who knows what’s going on because every time he goes back in time to stop this then comes back to the future something has changed in the memories of his friends and co-workers. Basically, this is a movie about time travel where Max decides it’s wrong for a crooked politician to change the fates and lives of others for his own benefit, but yet Max can go back and change the past all he wants to if it means his overly annoying wife doesn’t have to die.
Acting: It’s a JCVD movie, so you do the math.
Production: This was in theaters because I believe I actually saw it in theaters when it first came out.
Sex/Nudity: There is one pretty graphic sex scene early on involving the two main stars (JCVD and Mia Sara), but after that it remains nudity-free.
Special Effects: There’s a scene where one guy loses his arm and a good chunk out of the side of his body. That, coupled with the way it looks when the past and future President converge together show that this movie has pretty good special effects considering it’s from 1994.
Overall Verdict: When you get around the whole time travel problem with this movie (such as what I like to think of as “Too Many JCVDs”), then it can become a fun sci-fi sort of action movie. I really do enjoy it, even if at times it makes my head hurt over-thinking it.
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