That was an excellent one.
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... View MoreGreat movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
... View MoreI expected to see a sequel to this, Jean Claude Van Damme's best movie, years ago. When I saw the box to this video, I was suspicious at first. Now I recommend it to everyone who enjoyed the original. "Time Cop 2" is just as good. The story is even better.Jason Scott Lee, who's been absent for some time now, plays Ryan Chan, a time cop who takes his job seriously when he's not flirting with the TEC female doctor. While chasing down a time criminal in WWII Germany, one of his fellow operatives, Miller (Thomas Ian Griffith) sees an opportunity to kill Hitler. Mindful of the ramifications of altering the past, Chan stops Miller. Miller's wife , another operative is killed during the melee. Insane with grief, Miller turns renegede and is intent on wiping out Chan's existence by time jumping and killing his ancestors.The production value is excellent for a straight-to-video release and the fight action scenes are well-done (Lee and Griffith are well-trained martial artists who have a few genre movies under their belts).
... View MoreTime travel has always been my absolute favourite sci-fi sub-genre (with "post-apocalyptic" a close second) and so I actually shelled out my hard-earned cash last weekend to buy this movie.I got round to watching it tonight and am writing this review with mixed feelings. The title "The Berlin Decision" and the cover blurb led me to believe that most of the story would involve the main protagonists travelling back in time to Nazi Germany, with that era being the focus of the film. I figured that would be the basis for a very interesting and exciting movie. Unfortunately though, the Nazi Germany part of the film takes up only a few minutes at the beginning of the film, and after that - just like in the Van Damme original "Timecop" - the characters spend most of their time in the movie's present (2025) and recent past (2002) ... in other words almost the present day now, which to me seriously reduces a movie's "time travel" feel (the same major beef that I had with the vastly over-rated "Quantum Leap" TV show).I also thought that the whole thing was rather rushed - it tries to be too clever for its own good, and while it does throw up some interesting paradox questions, the plot moves at such a rapid pace that the viewer has little time to ponder them, and the whole thing just gets confusing and not a little messy in places. No attempt is made to explain or resolve any of the numerous paradoxes that arise, and in the end the best thing to do is just ignore them and try and get the best of the movie for what it is. Many potentially interesting questions arise that are left unanswered, such as what exactly was the "war" that resulted from the past being changed, and when Chan (the main character) arrives back in the alternate 2025 (in which his boss sports an eye patch and the female doctor a purple punk hairdo), what happens to his alternate self - the one who has presumably lived though the changed timeline? Is he somehow "displaced" by "our" Chan?? We never find out, and this fundamental question is simply ignored.That said, this film does have a few positives. The time travel sequences back to the Old West and Nazi Germany are fairly interesting, if a little short. There's a fairly gruesome bit where one of the timecops arrives back in the lab fused together with his younger self and hideously deformed - a result of him having made physical contact with himself (in a continuity nod to the original "Timecop" movie, this was described as being a potential problem for time travellers in that film). And some of the martial arts sequences are pretty good, if you like that sort of thing.Summary: Not great, but I've seen worse sequels and I'll probably dig this out again at some point and give it another go - maybe I've missed some of the subtleties.
... View MoreI thought this film was pretty good, considering a sequel to a movie like Timecop tends to be destined as a flop. Jamie Scott Lee's performance is great as usual, portraying Anderson as someone trying his best to hold himself together. Support performances were also above the standard you might expect and while the fight scenes are not spectacular, but they are certainly more than competent. The music grounds well with the film, especially at the climax of the last fight scene... I found it confusing at one point as to what exactly what Miller (the antagonist) had been doing as Anderson burst back and forth through time trying to track him down, with each return highlighting the consequences of his actions. But these scenes moved a bit too fast for me to catch up, so had to watch a few times... maybe I'm a dumbass, or maybe the pace was too quick considering the subject!Overall I found this film well paced and I liked the idea of the Society for Historical Authenticity being competition to the TEC. The moral aspects of time travel were touched on nicely enough to make you think, but not too much to tease you and leave you feeling unresolved in much of the theorising unlike Matrix Reloaded.I rate this perhaps a little higher due to 1 - Jamie Scott Lee's great performance, and 2 - The fact films like these tend to be a whole world worse than the original!
... View MoreOK, it's obvious that this isn't a great "Direct-to video & Sci-Fi Channel" Flick. I've always enjoyed watching Time Travel movies (even bad ones), and this one was unfortunately not one of the better ones.What's good about it? It was definitely nice to watch a lead character who is Asian-American. While this may sound odd to most, there aren't that many films out there that have an Asian-American lead. Of course the filmmakers just *had* to have him know Kung-Fu, but still, if you've got Jason Scott Lee as your lead, why not? Jason Scott Lee does indeed shine in this movie, especially considering what he's been given to work with in terms of plot.What's not so good about this movie? Just about everything else. The Visual Effects were below par (even the TV Show from the late 90's had better effects), and the story was not very exciting. There is a cliché with Time Travel stories that everything "turns out OK" at the end...as if none of the previous events ever occurred. We need to get away from that. It's trite.What's absurd about this movie? The ending epilogue. I'm not sure of the *exact* term that it's called, but you know..when they show clips of a character, then pause the image and give you a paragraph below it about what happened to them after the movie is over. This one takes just about *every* character in the movie and gives them a paragraph (sometimes even more). It just keeps going and going. And they even had a misspelling ("...demons of his conscience drove Knight to *from* -- should be *form* -- his own gang..."). At any rate, it became so laughable that I decided it would be a great drinking game (take a shot every time a character gets a "paragraph resolution" at the ending).Cheers for a movie with an Asian-American lead. Cheers to Jason Scott Lee for giving an exciting and credible performance in a really bad movie. Jeers to just about everything else in this film.
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