While “Timecop” proposes that matter can’t occupy the same space in the same time, and brings up the ideas of preventing time travel rather than policing it, the film also develops peculiar notions of the technology required to initiate such trips. Even though technicians monitor the ripples caused by jumping back and forth in time, the effects of altering the past never seem to have drastic consequences for present day characters. For additional inconvenience, Internal Affairs Agent Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben) becomes Walker’s new partner when the organization wishes to chaperone his potential for jobbery.ĭespite specifically referencing the butterfly effect, the movie proceeds to completely and utterly ignore it. Sure enough, McComb’s assassins target Walker, who refuses to give up attempting to uncover the senator’s repeated malfeasance. Meanwhile, Director Matuzak (Bruce McGill) gives Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) a tour of the TEC facility, where it becomes obvious that the corrupt politician is secretly employing TEC officers to manipulate funds for his upcoming presidential candidacy. Years later, in 2004, Max’s partner Lyle Atwood (Jason Schombing) is caught in the year 1929 trying to buy up stocks that are certain to become profitable, and he’s successfully brought back to the present to stand trial. As he exits his house, gunmen attack and shoot him, then grab his wife Melissa (Mia Sara) – before the entire house explodes in a luminous fireball. Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme), one of the newest recruits into the TEC, is called into duty late one night. You won’t understand it any better than I can,” declares George Spota (Scott Lawrence), who briefly describes the fact that they’re unable to visit the future but can journey to the past, and must be extra cautious about the “butterfly effect” of changing even the minutest of events of yore for fear of altering the present. “The technology is all in the folders in front of you. It’s suddenly necessary to form a Time Enforcement Commission to police the use of time travel – and it’s going to cost a lot of money. in 1994, at a Senate Oversight Committee on Covert Operations, it’s revealed that time travel has been invented and already used for criminal activities. Review J.C.V.D.N 1863 in Gainesville, Georgia, a man from the future, sporting hi-tech machineguns, hijacks a shipment of gold going to General Lee. is one remarkable piece of work … Nearly half way through 2008, this is the best film I’ve seen all year.” Making this even more insane is the fact that Variety’s review is also an unqualified rave, citing Van Damme’s “near-Buster Keatonesque deadpan” and “a tear- and prayer-filled” monologue that “must be seen to be believed.” Assuming this isn’t all some massive French Internet prank, we sort of can’t wait to see this. No matter what criteria you may use to judge it - scripting, cinematography, humor, action, even dramatic performance - J.C.V.D. Of course, things get complicated when he’s blamed for a bank robbery he didn’t commit, presumably with hilarious results.Īccording to Twitch’s Todd Brown, J.C.V.D. In the movie, which opens in France on June 4, Van Damme plays an exaggerated version of himself who, after losing a custody battle for his daughter (apparently his ex-wife’s attorneys clinch their victory by citing the various ways in which he’s killed enemies in his films), returns to Belgium to relax out of the media spotlight (see the trailer here). Maybe it does! Muscles from Brussels Jean-Claude Van Damme’s French-language meta comedy J.C.V.D., which premiered at Cannes, is getting some incredibly positive reviews, and not just for a guy whose previous high score on Rotten Tomatoes was a measly 44 percent (for Timecop, which, truthfully, deserved at least a 46 percent).
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