Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

mrryanscott-15530 This is not for art film lovers, this is a movie where Van Damme plays a "Time Cop" who is sent back in time by the time police force or whatever to stop future criminals from altering history in order to profit from it, for example by going back in time with crazy machine guns to wipe out civil war soldiers and steal their gold, or buy stocks right before they skyrocket in value, etc.He does a lot of shooting and kicking to get revenge against a psychotic politician who killed Van Damme's wife and wants to use time travel to become an evil president (Ron Silver who is so fun in this). Of course everything turns out OK in the end. After lots more face kicks and groin punches and flying bullets.

davej-73208 Oh my god there's some miserable people rating stuff these days. I understand not everyone likes the same things but every movie I watch with a low rating some actually turn out to be great.

bheadher If you can see past the obvious plot holes, and some of the effects, this one is quite fun to watch...The science is fairly well thought out, even though there a couple theories worthy of a cringe or two...but overall, the plot holds up well, including the focus on identical matter cannot occupy the same space...that was really a biggy for me as an amateur scientist of sorts.All in all, Time Cop is a movie, from a bygone era, where even B Flicks had some quality in them...well worth the experience to watch it...

Tweekums In 1994, the year of the film's release, time travel became a reality and a secret police unit, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is formed to prevent people travelling back in time and changing history. Up and coming senator Aaron McComb agrees to oversee the project. Policeman Max Walker has been offered a job a TEC but on the night he plans to tell his wife their house is attacked by people intent on killing him; he survives but his wife is killed.Moving forward to 2004 and Walker is an established TimeCop whose latest mission sees him chasing down his former partner who has gone back to 1929 to buy dirt cheap stock after the Wall Street crash that he knows will be worth a fortune in the present. He isn't working for himself though; he says that he is employed by McComb but he'll die before he testifies. Walker is now determined to stop McComb, who is in the running for the presidency. It won't be easy though; he doesn't know who he can trust and he is up against somebody who can go back in time repeatedly eliminate those who pose a threat to him.Like most time travel dramas it is best not to think too much about the effects it would have and just accept the rules as stated in the film. The story is relatively simple, we know from early on that McComb is the villain and while there are a couple of twists they aren't a total surprise. None of this matters though as it is mostly about the action which is plentiful and exciting. Jean-Claude Van Damme might not appear on many people's lists of greatest actors but he is ideally suited to the role of Walker; he does the action scenes with ease and manages to bring some wit to the character. Ron Silver does an impressive job as McComb keeping him just the right side of becoming a pantomime villain. Overall I wouldn't say this is a great film but it is pretty good; I'd certainly recommend it to fans of action and science fiction.