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I enjoyed Timecop. JCvD was required to be JCvD and not act - which was a bonus - the special effects complemented the film rather than overwhelming the vaguely sketchy plot and it was, all-in-all, quite good fun. Except maybe the demise of the bad guy, which blew.
Timecop 2 then.
Yes, it blows itself up in the very first sequence with the age-old time travel question - no, the other one. What would happen if someone went back in time to kill Hitler. Ohhhhhhhh dear. Still, at least it's uphill from here - even if it's only a slight incline.
Jason Scott Lee is very passable as an ass-kicking kung fu guy - he wasn't bad as Bruce Lee in "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", and I quite like the guy. He can't act his way out of a wet paper bag, but he's not really required to.
They clearly decided that time travel = special effects, so they've gone and changed the simple "drop in the ocean" effect for flashy, glowy lights which get extremely dull after the second showing - several of the effects do negate the effects from the first film though, including the bad guy death sequence in the original. Look up "consistency", guys. There's a nice homage to Back to the Future though.
The acting is crap. The cast are nonentities, so when they change because they occupy a redundant timeline, I don't notice. The bad guy is a joke - and not a particularly good joke at that. Some of the set sequences are good - like the bit in the Western town near the start (not to be confused with the bit in the OTHER Western town near the end). The timelines get rather confusing too - everything gradually gets more out-of-sync in the "present", but then suddenly becomes only slightly out-of-sync, unlike the original Timecop.
Overall: Don't expect much and you'll be rewarded. It passes the time (haha...) but the original is FAR superior in every respect (and the original isn't even that good a film, comparatively).
Timecop 2 then.
Yes, it blows itself up in the very first sequence with the age-old time travel question - no, the other one. What would happen if someone went back in time to kill Hitler. Ohhhhhhhh dear. Still, at least it's uphill from here - even if it's only a slight incline.
Jason Scott Lee is very passable as an ass-kicking kung fu guy - he wasn't bad as Bruce Lee in "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", and I quite like the guy. He can't act his way out of a wet paper bag, but he's not really required to.
They clearly decided that time travel = special effects, so they've gone and changed the simple "drop in the ocean" effect for flashy, glowy lights which get extremely dull after the second showing - several of the effects do negate the effects from the first film though, including the bad guy death sequence in the original. Look up "consistency", guys. There's a nice homage to Back to the Future though.
The acting is crap. The cast are nonentities, so when they change because they occupy a redundant timeline, I don't notice. The bad guy is a joke - and not a particularly good joke at that. Some of the set sequences are good - like the bit in the Western town near the start (not to be confused with the bit in the OTHER Western town near the end). The timelines get rather confusing too - everything gradually gets more out-of-sync in the "present", but then suddenly becomes only slightly out-of-sync, unlike the original Timecop.
Overall: Don't expect much and you'll be rewarded. It passes the time (haha...) but the original is FAR superior in every respect (and the original isn't even that good a film, comparatively).
