That was an excellent one.

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Honestly, it's pretty astonishing that this movie exists; it's the sort of project that could only have been brought into being via complete studio indifference to a franchise that probably should have died almost two decades ago. It's almost comically brutal, frequently surreal, and far, far more pretentious and high-minded than a movie called Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning has any right being. It's an art-horror movie hiding underneath the skin of action trash, and thinking of all the meathead bros who got tricked into watching what can best be described as what would happen if Gaspar Noe remade Apocalypse Now warms the cockles of my withered heart.Maybe I'm overselling this. Universial Soldier: Day of Reckoning isn't quite as deep or clever as it thinks it is, but it WORKS. It's hypnotic and frequently mesmerizing in spite of its flaws, and the action scenes contain some of the best fight choreography you'll see in a modern American action movie. It's not a great movie, but it's damn good, and worth watching if just for what a gutsy move it was to make a late-in- the-game DTV sequel to a trashy movie no one really cares about as genuinely affecting and ambitious as this.

What's that, you've never seen Universal Soldier Seven? Welp, here's the info:Dolph + Van Damage = Dolph DamageSo if we take D+D x VD = DVD then it appears this movie invented DVDs.Plus this is the Soldier of the Universe and he is Reckoning. Reckoning.It is also a day. Of the week? Maybe. You'll have to watch and see. The ending *may* surprise you, because it is actually a day of the month. Octember.Brazillion/Twelv

I can think of many better ways to spend and hour and a half other than watching this. Right from the start I wasn't sure what I was watching. It seemed like scenes out of scare flick rather than an action one. I had to check the channel to make sure Showtime was airing the right movie.This movie is fairly quick to get into action if you can ignore the first 5 minutes. But, action is all it is. The idea behind this movie is that there is a convent of sorts for former uni-sols, run by Scott and Deveraux, with some type of unknown, anarchist agenda. Another former uni-sol, who didn't know he was a uni-sol, is 'awakened' in a somewhat 'Neo vs agent Smith' from the final fight of The Matrix type of plot, and is used to infiltrate this convent.There is little back story to any of the main characters, though you'd recognize some from previous Universal Soldier installments if you've seen them. But the idea behind this edition was not well thought out. Sgt Scott was the protagonist to Luc Deveraux, never an ally, and that's a serious flaw from the start.This story has nothing really to do with the original concept. In fact, if not for the main title, you wouldn't know it was a Universal Soldier movie. The acting is sub-par, there is no character development, and it seems like low quality camera's were used during the filming. It probably consumed most of the budget just paying Lundgren and Van Damme to come back to it, even if for only short parts.The truly sad thing is the end leaves open the possibility for future installments along this storyline, though, hopefully both Lundgren and Van Damme are done with them. A true shame that such iconic action stars would put their names behind this.If you want to see a decent Universal Soldier movie, stay away from this one.

I have followed this installment from the beginning with great enthusiasm, but this fourth film in the series was a huge let down, this one is by far the weakest link.Plot: Deveraux is working to dismantle the government and he is using the UNISOL-program to his advantage. However, the government is continuously updating the UNISOL-program and their tactics, and so Deveraux is finding their latest trick quite hard to combat.I might call myself a traditionalist when it comes to character and plot development. Although you may fill in the blanks on your own, the fourth film should have been about Deveraux and how he got to where he is in this Movie from the third Movie.I wrote above that this Movie is the weakest link, why? Well, a solid link with the other Three Movies is all but missing. Movies 1 to 3 has a clear, linear and natural Connection to each other, this fourth one is almost only connected by name and a few random threads.What is missing too is the explaining of the development of the UNISOL-program. And why this stubbornness of using characters from previous Movies (well, besides Selling more tickets that is)? The fighting scenes are terrific although they are completely in the wrong order. Shouldn't the best one be saved for last? Final Words then, a fifth Movie is in order to wrap up the loose ends.Although a big let down, I still give it 5 out of 10 because I like the theme of super humans.