Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

paulclaassen A film of this genre will more often than not have plot flaws. And this one indeed had plot flaws galore, but ultimately it was good fun and very entertaining. The unanswered questions can easily be overseen by the sheer entertainment value the film provides. It has great sets, great action, and interesting enough plot and you get the opportunity to see Van Damme in top form. The visuals are good for its time and there's loads of action! I did find the music loud and overbearing at times.

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.

SnoopyStyle Time travel is invented. Going forward is impossible but going back can be catastrophic. The government creates the Time Enforcement Commission to police time travel. Someone has already got back to steal gold from the Confederacy in 1863. Senator McComb (Ron Silver) volunteers to be the oversight. Policeman Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is attacked at home and his wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is caught when their house explodes. Ten years later, he travels back to 1929 to apprehend his ex-partner Lyle Atwood trying to cash in on the market. Atwood tells him that McComb is the organizer trying to get money for his run for the Presidency. Matuzak (Bruce McGill) is his supervisor. Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben) from internal affairs is assigned his new partner.There is something wrong with the plot but my head hurts trying to figure it out. It is more ambitious writing than Van Damme's other movies. It is not quite sharp enough. The things that we love Van Damme for is the fights. There are plenty of his splits and his kicks. At times, I would rather have a simpler movie and concentrate on Van Damme's strengths.I think the problem starts with Matuzak saying that Max's word isn't enough and yet somehow with Sarah, that's enough to put McComb in prison. And why would Sarah flip on McComb? Wouldn't it be easier to kill Max when he was born? I'm sure McComb could find Max's birth certificate. It's not the logic of time travel that bugs me but the logic of characters' actions that are more problematic.

oOoBarracuda A cohesive story line, a well-developed plot, and an often naked Jean-Claude Van Damm; well, I guess one for three isn't a total waste. Actually, it almost is when the one achieved you could find copies of in a magazine and hardly need to watch a film to see. I had high hopes for Timecop based on friends who spoke excitedly of the film. Not knowing what to expect, having never seen a Van Damm flick, I took their word for it; and yes, I am evaluating my friendships. What could have been a fun innovative story line turned out to be a forgettable disappointment that is Timecop.Our story begins, just for moments, in the familiar old west as we see a time traveler vaporize union soldiers transporting gold, which gives us a hint of just how long this time traveling device has been in effect. Obviously time travel has been perfected and used however a society sees fit. That's where our hero comes in, working for a security agency who exploits time travel to go back in time and prevent crimes from being committed. Criminals have become adept in their illegal conquests and often use time travel to alter the time line to further enhance their criminal activity. When Walker (Van Damm) is told by a former co-worker that the Senator (Ron Silver) in charge of the Time Enforcement Commission is abusing power and time travel for his own game, he begins keeping an eye on him. One evening, after a night in with his wife, and just before she tells him some big news, Melissa (Mia Sara) Walker is called away to work and upon him heading out, his wife is killed, and his house bombed to the ground. Spending the next 10 years grieving, and watching Senator McComb, Walker attempts to arrange the perfect plan to thwart his wife's killing and save the future.Where does one begin with a critique for this film? For one thing, the movie's established method of time travel is heavily flawed. In this film's world, one cannot explore the future because it hasn't happened yet, characters can only travel into the past. The problem with this is, however, that once the individual leaves their present for the past, the present becomes the future. Since the present turns into the future, this should mean that once the individual is in the past, they would have no way to return to their present. Another problem with the film is molecular biology. According to the plot, the same matter cannot occupy the same space-which becomes very important later in the film. The problem is, even the same person from two different dimensions of time, is not composed of the same matter they were years in the past. The human body is largely made up of water, which is constantly replaced, cell repair that is continuously taking place, with the functioning of the human body there would exist none of the same matter creating an obvious plot hole. Anyway, enough plot holes in the film to make it look like one of the walls shot up on screen, I surely won't be seeing it again anytime soon.I'm not sure who to recommend this film to. I'm sure action fans will like it, if they have a bent for sci-fi works as well. Fans of Jean-Claude Van Damm would certainly find the film enjoyable. There is always a suspension of disbelief that goes along with watching a film; Timecop requires not just a suspension of disbelief, but a suspension of memory and intelligence as well. It's difficult for one to keep up with a film that is constantly changing its own premise, and that is not an exercise I wish to perfect.