Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Universal Soldier : Regeneration Movie Review | silentcritics.com

A group of guerrilla fighters from a Russian breakaway republic called Paslan have a master plan in place to get 110 of their comrades released from prison in exchange for the kidnapped Prime minister’s son and daughter. The group has also taken into custody the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant and thereby threatening to rig an explosion that would be as deadly as “100 times more powerful than the bombs dropped in Japan” resulting in a radioactive cloud let loose. At this point the story might sound interesting and when the Universal Soldier movie series begun in 1992 with the Roland Emmerich directed original we expect more from it and its lead actor in Jean Claude Van Damme. In the end or rather mid way through the movie we can notice that the director John Hyams (son of noted film maker Peter Hyams) has got his calculations awfully wrong as we get to witness some cheap lop-sided stunts with lots of bloodshed. Read More

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