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".