ThiefHott
Too much of everything
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Rexanne
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
adonis98-743-186503
With Independence Day: Resurgence coming out today let's go back at time a bit when Roland Emmerich directed a pretty good action movie called Universal Soldier starring Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. Now is this movie dumb and over the top? Yes a lot it's a mix of action man and Terminator but only lower in good acting or good writing. Lundgren for some reason is obsessed with ears in this movie a lot and Van Damme wants to eat the whole restaurant. But the movie has some great action sequences, fight scenes and overall it's a very good 90's movie just except a cheesy 90's movie and you will love it. Universal Soldier gets an A+
ivo-cobra8
Universal Soldier (1992) Is one of the best Van Damme action sci-fi classic movies from the 90's also my favorite childhood movie that I am still watching it today. It is my third best favorite Van Damme movie! It has Dolph Lundgren in it and I love this movie to Death!!! Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundrgren are awesome in this film. Action and fighting sequences were awesome till today Roland Emmerich did made a great job as the director of this action sci-fi film flick. Every time I see this action flick I am not bored with it and is definitely Van Damme's best action movie. I enjoy the action, I mainly love this movie, because it focus on Vietnam War and it has experiments that US military actually really secretly did that. The fights scenes between Van Damme and Lundgren were awesome! This is the only movie that I care and love about! All the sequels to me sucked ass! None of them can hold a candle to this movie! Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren reunited 20. years later after working together in here, in the film "The Expendables 2" (2012) my favorite action packed movie. This movie is a bad ass and kicks ass! I love it so much, I even prefer above Kikcboxer and Double Impact. This is the movie that I love. I love all the actors in this movie, Ally Walker was a great cast as reporter Veronica Roberts. Chandra West who played her in TV movies couldn't even hold a candle to Ally Walker./:Ally Walker was also cast as Dr. Samantha 'Sam' Waters in my favorite TV Show Profiler. "ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?" Hell yes.The best science fiction action film ever made. It still holds up great to this day. Whenever I watch this movie I am having fun. A really fun inventive action flick with some really kick ass fight scenes and a sense of fun about it, that makes it irresistible. Van Damme and Lundgren were great in this and it really is a shame that despite this being a hit Lundgren still did not get out of direct to video land and continued to get overlooked by Hollywood after the film's release. This movie it is the film that made Van Damme in to a star and saved his career. It is so aggravating how far they rushed with the sequels. At least we still got the one amazing movie that made Dolph one of the greatest villains ever, well maybe not a "villain" a but a real bad ass! I like the aspect of the cool down process and the story is easy to understand. Also, Dolph Lundgren's scene in the grocery store is one of my all time favorite scenes in any movie. I really love this movie to death. Alongside Hard Target and Bloodsport, Universal Soldier is my third favorite Van Damme movie. I don't care what anyone say's or thinks about this movie, I will not listen to them, I will listen to my self! When I was 13. years old, I was in the hospital talking with my new friends about this movie, that I have made them there, when I was lying on the bed. That time, I never watched or heard about this movie before and they told me how great it is. They where right, it took me few months till I finally watch this movie on TV and I absolutely loved it. This film for me has a great memories on my childhood. This is the basic plot about the film it has death soldiers, that turns in to a cyborg killing machines that are anti terrorist and their experiments goes awry wrong and they start killing innocent people and only one man, a machine can stop them. The final battle scene between Van Damme and Lundgren is epic! Van Damme uses his awesome spin kicks with his legs, that we already saw in Bloodsport, Kickboxer and Double Impact. The meat grinder scene is, when Scott is crushed and killed, that was really a bad ass scene! I am giving this movie my perfect 10, because it deserves it and Roland Emmerich did a great job directing this movie. I can watch this movie over and over again. Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren did a both a perfect solid job playing their characters. I love them!
jokerswild1
The plot is pretty unoriginal, but the existence of the plot in this particular film is really just an excuse for action, and the action in question is good enough to make this worth your time.If you looked at the poster and saw the names of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren, you probably figured out that the acting would be pretty poor, and you were right. Van Damme tries his best, but he doesn't really have it in him. To be fair though, Luc Deveraux isn't a compellingly written character in the first place. Lundgren is OK when he's just an emotionless soldier, but pretty hammy once his character's true personality reemerges. Even though neither of them are very convincing actors, the opening of the film is actually quite dark and compelling. As previously stated, the action is quite good, with the best sequences being in the third act. The cinematography and production values are of high quality as well.
Maziun
*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERSThis is REALLY poor man's "Robocop" or "Terminator" , with no sense of style , substance , intelligence or fun that appear in those classic science fiction movies. Directed and written by Roland Emmerich - one of the worst movie makers in history - what could you expect ? The fact that for some people this is a great classic action movie really tells you about their bad taste and questionable intelligence.The story has no depth or humanity . Unlike Murphy's story in "Robocop" it doesn't go anywhere . The Lundgren character could have been a tragic one instead he is wasted as one dimensional villain. Don't also expect any substance here. The story is just a excuse for the action scenes. If this was a B class movie , the whole cheesy story could be made with irony and for fun. It could have been a cult movie. Unfortunately this trash takes itself TOO SERIOUSLY from the beginning to the end. It is an incredibly grim film with no sense of humor - in it or about itself. And it is dumb - even for an action movie. A great action movies also have sometimes dumb moments , but there is a thin line between acceptable mistakes and pure idiocy. Few examples of complete disregard for audience intelligence : - Universal soldiers are SECRET weapons of US army , so they are traveling in special plane and truck that even blind would see -Universal soldiers can hit a guy people in the head from 500 meters with a silenced pistol, but miss the hero when they shoot him with machine guns at five meters range. - Universal soldiers move slower than zombies , yet underwater they can swim faster than a man can run and NOT get their clothes wet ! - Universal soldiers are sensitive to heat , so they are wearing padded jackets - A journalist simply walks in the secret military complex - Van Damme would rather steal an used car than army truck - Army leaves a truck with no protection at all - Lundgren knows in which car EXACTLY he should hide -Van Damme can't remember how to eat , but he knows how to buy a bus ticketThe acting is rather bad. Ally Walker is just awful as the cliché independent journalist . Van Damme is tolerable as man child with Pinocchio complex . Lundgren is not bad as the villain/killing machine). He brings some joy to this train wreck.Emmerich's direction is terrible , completely flat , failing to create even a speck of tension or excitement. The final fight is terribly cliché. The humor is clumsy and cringe worthy , worthy of a village moron. Avoid it . It's a total trash only for action movie junkies. I give it 2/10.
