5/17/2023 0 Comments Timecop hd dvd![]() ![]() Max wants Lyle to testify against McComb but, fearing that McComb's men will travel back into the past and wipe out his family, the frightened underling grimly chooses death. ![]() Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver), a presidential candidate in dire need of campaign funds (!). On a mission to 1929 New York, Max finds that his former partner, Lyle Atwood (Jason Schombing), has been buying up stock during the great market crash on behalf of U.S. Ten years later, Max is working for the Time Enforcement Agency (TEC), a secret branch of the federal government charged with preventing those with access to the newly-discovered time traveling technology from altering the past. Got that? In 1994, police officer Max Walker's (Van Damme) wife Melissa (Mia Sera) is murdered during a break-in at the couple's huge Victorian home, which then mysteriously explodes. The film is set in the futuristic world of 2004 but a good deal of it is set in the past, in 1994, which when the film was new was the present. Looking at it now, Timecop requires a little audience adjustment. The disc itself has no extras at all but the transfer is strong and the Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 sound gets a real workout. The film, a U.S.-Japanese (JVC Entertainment) co-production, turned out to be a worldwide hit, eventually earning $135 million, more than half of that abroad, and probably this international appeal accounts for its release on HD DVD. ![]() The $28 million production (according to the IMDb) is more lavish than one would expect for what essentially is a B-movie it straddles the world of cheap action-thrillers epitomized by Cannon's Charles Bronson films, which had petered out a few years before, and bigger, star-driven high-concept movies that would eventually would wipe this type of medium-budget thriller off the map. Despite plot holes as big as Irwin Allen's Time Tunnel, the Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi thriller Timecop (1994) is a surprisingly entertaining popcorn movie with the "Muscles from Brussels" playing a time-traveling cop policing abuses in newfound time-tripping technology. ![]()
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