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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

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5.5/10 • 424

2012-10-041h 53m

ActionScience FictionThriller

Under their own command

After his wife and daughter are murdered in a home invasion, a widower named John now finds himself up against an army of Universal Soldiers in relentless pursuit, led by a mysterious leader who promises to set UniSols free from their conditioning.

Directors
John Hyams
Characters
Dean Devlin
Editors
John Hyams

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Jean-Claude Van Damme

    Jean-Claude Van Damme

    Luc Deveraux

  2. Scott Adkins

    Scott Adkins

    John

  3. Dolph Lundgren

    Dolph Lundgren

    Andrew Scott

  4. Andrei Arlovski

    Andrei Arlovski

    Magnus

  5. Mariah Bonner

    Mariah Bonner

    Sarah

  6. Audrey P. Scott

    Audrey P. Scott

    Emma

  7. Rus Blackwell

    Rus Blackwell

    Agent Gorman

  8. James DuMont

    James DuMont

    Dr. Timothy Brady

  9. Dane Rhodes

    Dane Rhodes

    Ron Castellano

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Per Gunnar Jonsson Avatar

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Feb 9, 2013

5/10

This movie was not really what I expected or at least not what I hoped it would be. Sure it is a decent enough action flick if you watch it as a stand-alone movie but it is also really different from the other Universal Soldier movies and I cannot say that I really liked the different track this movie took. The good part is that there is no lack of action and it is indeed both brutal and quite gory action. Those parts of the movie are quite good and are what keeps me from giving the movie a real trash rating. However, the pace of the movie also drops into really slow scenes quite frequently. This could have been effective if there would have been some form of coherent plot to follow but there really isn’t. A lot of things just happen and the lead character goes to various places, does things, without any obvious reason or explanation. Speaking of the plot, on some movie sites you can read a synopsis like this one: "In a world without government, the surviving Unisols maintain order and choose the strongest of their ranks to rule, testing them in life-or-death combat." Unfortunately this synopsis has also ended up on the French Amazon site where I bought the Blu-ray and it is total bullshit. It is not a world without government or any other doomsday world like what the French cover tries to imply. There is also not really any “testing” going on but more a spontaneous brawl ending up in a “unfortunate casualty'” among the rather emotionless uni-sols. This blatantly false advertising really annoys me. Another thing that did not sit very well with me is that both Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme is not really main characters but rather obscure ones that kind of hide in the shadows until a show-down fight at the end. Not only that but Jean-Claude is more or less portrayed as a bad-guy throughout the movie. Not only as a bad-guy from the governments point of view but also from the viewers. It is kind of shown at the end that he is not but still…the entire movie is very dark and without hope. As I said, the action scenes are really the only thing that saved this movie from a real trash rating. If you have not seen any of the other Universal Soldier movies previously you might give this one a higher rating though.

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  • Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning poster
  • Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning poster
  • Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning poster
  • Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning poster
  • Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning poster

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$11,500,000.00
Revenue
$1,402,307.00
Keywords
combat