 "Universal Soldier" is a Van Damme classic. I hated it.
Perhaps this was Van Damme’s best role because he didn’t have to act with any emotion throughout most of the movie. The acting is mostly bad. Roland Emmerich does a decent job with the sci-fi direction. What surprised me was that there's not a lot of action and few action scenes are any good. There’s not much martial arts, either.
I liked the plot and idea of this movie, but the overall quality was not that great. The story was like a bizarre cross between "The Fugitive" and "The Terminator". |