NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

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TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Scarecrow-88 Jean Claude Van Damme returned to the franchise (which had made-for-video sequels already) with this average sequel co-starring Bill Goldberg (not exactly a thespian) as one of many Unisols (Universal Soldiers for short) instructed by a evolving super computer program (created by Xander Berkeley's Dr. Cotner) named SETH (voiced by Michael Jai White, who later becomes Van Damme's main fighting adversary) to turn on the scientists responsible for their re-creation. SETH gets help from a vengeance-minded, spiky-green-haired former employee of the Unisol institute to apply its advanced brain to a "body in cold storage" (White's). Goldberg grunts and snarls, but Van Damme often gets the best of him. White of the rotten Dark Horse comic movie, Spawn, gets a chance to flex his muscle, allowed to really put a hurting on Van Damme during their fighting scenes, and credit to him for looking the part of someone who could actually give the hero a run for his money.The film takes place almost exclusively in some factory and a hospital, with lots of extras in soldier uniforms, security guard uniforms, nurses uniforms, and Unisol suits all getting pummeled, shot, or exploded into oblivion. Berkeley is too good an actor for a wasted part in a rather subpar actioner, while Kiana Tom, who started out the film as a battle- ready heroine to Van Damme's hero, is abandoned by a plot that no longer cared about her. Heidi Schanz is suitable news reporter, a cute and non-compliant (opinionated and bold) damsel in need of protection, with Van Damme often having to bicker with her when he's not dodging bullets and fists aimed at him. Even Van Damme's daughter suffers a bad fall, head injury, is kidnapped by White, and held as ransom as the villain demand for the hero to provide a "survival code" SETH needs in order to be fully in control of the Unisols and begin his plan of total human obliteration and Unisol takeover. Daniel Von Bargen, as General Bradford, is your typical military brass, barking orders and wanting to blow up the building housing the Unisols in order to keep them from being free to destroy the human race.Not cinematic as its predecessor and looks like a made-for-video product. It offers lots of explosions and guns firing off plenty of rounds. Not a lot of bloodshed, though. Goldberg is no Lundren, though.

shadowsal01 This Movie just shows how far a crappy story line and acting take you...about maybe 10 minutes of what I thought was going to be OK but it was just down hill from there. Van Dame Just finds a way to always take off his shirt or finds a way to always flex in every position that he finds himself. That bald guy or should I call him Stone cold Steve all he needed was some beers after he beat the crud out of Van crap and sprayed his alcohol load all over each others steroid bodies. Waste of the precious time you have in this world.May god have mercy on Van crap for delivering this load of would be acting.Terrible

Michael_Elliott Universal Soldiers: The Return (1999)* 1/2 (out of 4)Silly sequel has a computer now running the universal soldiers program and when it learns that the government is cutting back funds, the computer comes to life and orders the soldiers to go on a killing rampage. Thankfully Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is around to try and take care of the matter. I'm not sure how many people were wanting a sequel to UNIVERSAL SOLIDER but this here certainly isn't a good movie on any level, although there are certainly some moments that are so campy that some might be able to get a laugh out of them. In terms of stories this one here really doesn't offer too much as the main goal of it is just to get Van Damme ready to fight just about anyone. You have to at least give the actor credit for remaining in shape and at least making it believable that he's still able to kick some butt. Performance wise he's also not all that bad and manages to have a lot more energy than he did in the first film. The rest of the cast doesn't come off that good and this includes Bill Goldberg as the main bad soldier. Some of his line deliveries got the biggest laughs of the film but there's no doubt the film wouldn't have been as entertaining without him. Michael Jai White also doesn't shine in his role as SETH. The action scenes are mainly pretty weak and the low-budget also shows because dozens of people get shot up yet you never see a drop of blood. I won't ruin the final action scene but the CGI effect used has to be one of the worst looking ever released.

Yahav I liked the first movie.Seeing the second totally ruined it though. Horrible cast. Horrible director. No story whatsoever. Bunch of lame actors punching and shooting each other, kids could act better.No matter what, if you read this and plan to rent or download this movie - DON'T DO THAT, for your own sake. You'll just waste over 90 minutes of your life.I know some people like it just for the action but get real.. you have more action in the daily news. No need to waste so much time on this.Believe me, you don't want to learn in the hard way.