Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)

Universal Soldier: Regeneration: Directed by John Hyams. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Andrei Arlovski, Mike Pyle. Terrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister’s 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes in but faces 2 NGUs.

“Amazingly enough I went into this movie thinking it would be complete crap because of JCVD and Dolph u0026quot;I canu0026#39;t actu0026quot; Ludgren, but it was much better than a lot of other action movies, including Terminator: Salvation.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA lot of people might be hesitant because of the conflicting reviews, but ignore the whole u0026quot;This is bad because it has Jean Claude in it…u0026quot; stigma and you might be as surprised as I was after watching it. In fact, I found myself watching it a few times again because, through and through, itu0026#39;s an extremely engaging film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat actually shocked me is that it covers an important social issue of terrorism versus political tyranny; using terrorism to maintain (and gain) freedom as well as capitalist control of armies without nations. Yeah, itu0026#39;s a movie that actually covers something important about sociality.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs a lot of other people pointed out, though, Jean Claude and Dolph only lend their faces for brief (in Dolphu0026#39;s case) and extended (in Jeanu0026#39;s case) cameos. This film is not really about the aging action heroes but rather, they play a part in the outcome of things, very similar to Snipeu0026#39;s role in Blade 2.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for quality…the movie is shot to look like the Bourne Identity and even has a cool chase scene like it, too. All the action is depicted with startling realism and all fist-fights result in such because people either run out of ammo or get too close to use weapons. In other words, all the fight scenes in this movie make a heck of a lot of sense and are very realistic and practical. Added to this, the musical score is extremely fitting to the science-fiction overtones.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOverall, this movie is leaps and bounds better than every other Universal Soldier movie made before it and actually takes itself serious enough to deserve better praise than what itu0026#39;s been receiving.”