Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

ivo-cobra8 *SPOILERS* Universal Soldier: Regeneration in my opinion is the worst movie sequel, reboot or whatever. I just don't get the hype or why everyone loves this movie? This movie has nothing to compare to the original classic movie 1992 Universal Soldier. Is not a Universal Soldier at all. This is not a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. For the first 17.mins. he is not in the movie. Than he shows for 2.mins and than again he is not. I think this movie is a yawn, and deserved to be direct to home video. Much, much better than the 2nd in the franchise, but that's not saying much, as I consider it to be the worst movie ever made. It was low paced, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren had a cameo scenes and they had a screen time. In this movie Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski is the star of the film not Jean-Claude Van Damme! The second movie might suck for a lot of people I thought it was a good sequel. Because it was Van Damme film, it was filmed in the 90's and it was shot in USA. This film is not American Film at all! It was shot in a abandoned cold meal steal in Europe Bulgaria and not US. JCVD does look weird in, his eyes look dead and he doesn't exactly exude personality but that is the character, I guess. Luc is now quite difficult to sympathise with as he has practically lost all of his humanity; the scene where he beats a stranger nearly to death is pretty disturbing and really made me think "What the hell happen to you, Luc?" After all the mental turmoil he goes through though, he still comes out a hero in the end after some spectacular battles. Very lifeless, boring & depressing sequel that doesn't deserve all the love it gets. I am probably the only one who just doesn't like this movie. Sorry fans but in my opinion this movie is a Pile of crap with a horrible plot, a snail pace, Zero Likable characters, NOTHING about the score sounded like Carpenter and nothing about the score was like Dredd either...I don't get that at all , the actors sucked. I will never understand the praise this film gets. Van Damme is barely in it, Dolph is in a horrible cameo scene, forgettable & worst bad guys, it's a really boring, and I hate this movie with a passion. Even the fights were poor. Getting on the ground and 'punch punch punch' is not exciting to me. To each their own, but I'll never understand it. And it's barely even a Van Damme film when the guy is only in it for like 15 minutes...and just acts like a wooden zombie with nothing at all to his character. Like i'll say again, to each their own. I hate this and Day of Reckoning with a PASSION.At first, the story was going somewhere then as it went on, it just did not make any sense anymore. Without spoiling, the timeline just doesn't make sense and you wonder what the characters are exactly doing in the story. Furthermore you wonder what the hell they are doing there in the first place - there are simply no explanation. There are some great action sequences but even in an action film (or sequence) you get a sense as to why a particular action is made; often in this film you do not. Hence I was very disappointed in this film. The only things I like in this film is the ending tough, that Van Damme Killed NGU on the end. Even tough Van Damme fought with NGU, he did not beat him. The fight with Van Damme and Lundgren was horrible and it wasn't epic. That one long shot with Van Damme running through the snow killing people and knifing people was pretty sweet, though. The rest suck, bunch of army soldiers were killed. Two kids were hostages in this movie and they did not even speak at all. Most of actors had a terrible dialogue or they did not talk. I don't get why people like this movie so much. I was bored to death, I fall a sleep by the end of the film, were Van Damme was fighting with Lundgren. I am sorry but I don't like this movie, I watch it three times in the row and I still don't like it! In my opinion Day of Reckoning is much better movie than this at least for me.I am giving this movie a 3, I liked the score tough and I like Van Damme surviving on the end and running away which he was free. I am glad if you like this movie you can put down my review I don't care. I love Universal Soldier and Universal Soldier: The Return I don't like this one! Universal Soldier: Regeneration is the third official installment in the Universal Soldier film series. The 2009 sequel reunites original Universal Soldier stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. The film was directed by Jonathan Hyams, the son of director Peter Hyams. A fourth film in the series, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning was released in 2012.2/10 Grade: E Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Starring: Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski, Dolph Lundgren, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mike Pyle, Garry Cooper, Corey Johnson, Kerry Shale, Aki Avni Director: John Hyams Producers: Craig Baumgarten, Mark Damon, Moshe Diamant Screenplay: Victor Ostrovsky Based on Characters created by Richard Rothstein, Christopher Leitch and Dean Devlin Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 37 Mins. Budget: $10.000.000 Box Office: $844,000

daworldismine the original universal soldier is an action classic, the second one is the worst movie van damme ever made, but this third installment, has gone back to the roots, and is a brutal, action packed thrill ride, that gladly ignores the second one, and brings back dolph lundgren for one of the best fight scenes I've seen in a long time, brutal, fast, and with a killer ending, the movie looks dark, and the atmosphere grim, but this movie offers some of the best action cinema to come out of Hollywood for a long time, this is the sort of movie i miss, just pure non stop action, but to be honest i think the script this time was pretty good, and is a very worthy sequel to the original movie, a must see action flick

lost-in-limbo The "Universal Soldier" franchise seems to be having its batteries constantly recharged, as another sequel is in the works with Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. However the pair would team up again, not since the original out for this filth instalment. Yep number five, and there's a sixth on its way. Hell I didn't know there were two entries that didn't star Van Damme!? I don't know how these ones figure in the time-line or even relate to each other (even though the central UniSol cyborg character remains the same). Anyhow "Regeneration" is a rampaging, take no prisoners sequel (or even re-boot) which likes to pay a little homage to the original. This being Van Damme and Lundgren's deja vu confrontation. Its well worth it, but some fans might be a disappointment as Van Damme is kept on the back-burner for most part (spending more time moping about and getting back in training) and Lundgren feels quite secondary to everything going on (even he questions the complexities of life), where he doesn't appear until the hour mark. Sometimes both would go missing in action… especially Lundgren. But wait around for its violently aggressive climatic showdowns --- Van Damme wiping out an army before encountering his fellow peers. Cool to see the pair go at it again, although would have like to see more than what we got. Even the opening (which Van Damme doesn't appear) sets up the cracking pace and ballistic onslaught to follow. It's Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski who gets to have a good time as the unstoppable next-generation unit that likes to make mince meat of his victims and Kerry Shale as his slimy creator Dr. Colin. The drab plot is quite simple --- stop terrorists as a nuclear threat is evident, but it's not easy as they have a stolen next-generation Universal Soldier and the only one capable of matching it is the decommissioned unit Luc Deveraux. But another surprise awaits Luc. The setting for this raw action to take place, keeps its taut like a siege standoff in an abandoned compound. It's barren, bleak and isolated. Director John Hyms throws you straight in with brutal sensationalism and frenetic movements as the camera jumps around like a first person shooter game. "Universal Soldier: Regeneration" is a fair, grimy low-budget sequel."How do you feel?"

Scarecrow-88 A group of Pasalan rebels occupy the abandoned Chernobyl, rigging the nuclear reactor within the city with explosives, in turn threatening to send off a radioactive cloud that would be far worse than the A-bomb in Japan. Pasalan Commander Topov, the son of a general killed in battle for the liberation of his country, demands the release of political prisoners or else they will set off the bombs and kill Prime Minister Musayev's son and daughter in the process. Topov hires a scientist, Dr. Colin, a genius in cloning and once part of the Universal supersoldier program known as White Tower (an extension of the first program known as Black Tower), with ulterior motives—in particular, the desire to create an army of "NGU" Universal Soldiers—who has designs on advancing beyond supporting a small, insignificant militant terrorist group taking two children of a country's leader hostage as a rallying cry against their people's imprisonment. The NGU is superior to the original Unisols because of a new gene therapy Colin discovered during his cloning research through DNA "shots" creating a soldier better in "every physical capacity". All of this ultimately matters little because the film's bread and butter is seeing two (or three, as the movie has Jean Claude Van Damme engaged in combat with two Universal soldiers at the end) Universal soldiers going at it within the ruins of a decaying city where a community once lived, skeletal buildings and homes, especially the warehouses which surround the nuclear facility containing the reactor 3 which has the bomb attached to it, furnishing a plethora of walls and windows, among other objects, for powerful, practically indestructible human killing machines to explode through.This movie really rockets right out of the gate with a thrilling chase scene, mostly shot within the vehicle that transports the hostages of Musayev's children while the police attempt to stop Andrei Arlovski (whose name in the movie is simply NGU) who is equipped with the capabilities to withstand multiple bullet wounds, even a protruding bone from his elbow, wiping out a number of them because they are helpless to stop him. That sets the stage for another exciting gunfight as American soldiers try to go into Chernobyl to rescue the hostages with help of resurrected Unisols but Arlovski's NGU pretty much dispatches the whole lot of them. This is when, out of desperation, Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is selected as a last resort, a last ditch effort to infiltrate Chernobyl, engage the enemy, and get the son and daughter out of harm's way. I damn near had an orgasm when cinematographer Peter Hyams (allowing his son to direct the movie) shoots a lengthy sequence where Van Damme, after being "juiced" by injections which allow him to forward ahead against not only Arlovski and Dolph Lundgren( more on him later), but also Topov's (Zahary Baharov) limitless supply of human targets to obliterate, goes into Chernobyl, guns blazing, bodies ripped asunder, machine-gun mayhem at its finest. Oh, and it doesn't stop when Van Damme loses his guns, out comes the killing knife and boy howdy does it spill and spray some blood! Arlovski sure gets showcased in a fashion straight out of the 80s—he is the unstoppable force of nature that Van Damme has been known to battle in tons of action films from the past. As for Dolph Lundgren, I'm awestruck that a scientist like Colin (Kerry Shale), who understands the malfunction of his Andres Scott from the past, would even dare attempt to resurrect him. Colin is genuinely surprised that Scott doesn't adhere to his commands, and his being victimized because of an ill-advised decision to return Andres from the dead should have been expected by someone supposedly brilliant. Anyway, it allows Dolph and Van Damme one last chance to rip into each other, and they give us (or, at least their stunt doubles) quite a slobberknocker. The result of their fight puts the icing on the cake.Bulgaria and other Eastern European hotspots have become a mecca for low budget action featuring heroes from the 80s, and UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION takes advantage of the areas where a director, stunt coordinators, and action choreographers can be turned loose to run rampant, with lots of buildings to blow up and extras to take bumps. I'm honest: I like to see debris, shattered glass and wood, scores of baddies falling from high positions or being taken apart by seemingly unkillable heroes, rounds and rounds of ammunition just annihilating everything in sight, not to mention, gladiators demolishing each other, their feats of strength and the blows they withstand preposterous. This movie follows those lines and after it was over I was happy. It isn't about performances or a strong storyline, it's about flesh and blood.With a nice part for Mike Pyle as Captain Kevin Burke, who goes into enemy lines to bring the hostages out, his bravery no match for Arlovski's superhuman prowess. Corey Johnson is Col. John Coby, leader of the task force behind the rescue of the hostages and preventing radioactive fallout. Garry Cooper is Dr. Porter, the head scientist of the White Tower project, who prepares Luc's body for the abuse it will take once he is sent in to achieve the objective he's programmed to accomplish. Emily Joyce is the only one Luc trusts, a scientist who was futilely trying to rehabilitate him to reintegrate into society.