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Universal Soldier
Private Luc Deveraux and his sadistic sergeant, Andrew Scott, got killed in Vietnam. The army uses their bodies for a secret project, reanimating dead soldiers as deadly obedient cyborgs. However, their memories come back too.
7 June 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 April 1938, New York City, New York, USA
2 May 1955
20 June 1947, USA
7 May 1957, Dayton, Ohio, USA
3 November 1957, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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14 May 1957, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
30 October 1949, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
17 November 1928, Oklahoma, USA
9 April 1929, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
16 January 1961, Cardiff, South Wales, UK
22 January 1945, Grambling, Louisiana, USA
16 December 1949, USA
3 February 1948, El Paso, Texas, USA
3 December 1912, USA
3 June 1937
November 03, 2008
With no real plot tying them together, the impressively staged big scenes become empty exercises in logistics, while the smaller scenes never develop any momentum.
June 24, 2006
Mostly this is an amalgam of ideas, images and whole scenes lifted from other movies.
January 01, 2000
Perhaps Van Damme and Lundgren trade blows more easily than lines, but the whole affair is enjoyable in a mindless way.
November 03, 2008
It may be little more than an expensive arcade game for overgrown kids, but it moves too fast for critical flak to stick.
July 09, 2012
There's a decent bit of escapism in here somewhere, but Emmerich doesn't possess the finesse to make the material rampage as it should.
November 03, 2008
Leaves behind almost as many derisive laughs as dead bodies.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Lundgren, who glowers his way all too convincingly through the role of a rabid bully, may well be the only man in the universe who can make Mr. Van Damme look like an actor.
July 06, 2010
There are some pretty decent stunts-especially the one where the two main Uni-Sols go rappelling face-first down Hoover Dam-but they hardly make this $23-million turkey worth your eight bucks.
March 23, 2003
In the end, the main drawback is the brainlessness of the story and the lack of a believable emotional payoff.
January 01, 2000
I suppose there is a market for this sort of thing among bubblebrained adolescents of all ages, but it takes a good chase scene indeed to rouse me from the lethargy induced by dozens and dozens of essentially similar sequences.
June 11, 2003
Roland Emmerich's best film, and Lundgren's best acting job. Admittedly that ain't saying much in either case, but a fun flick all in all.
May 12, 2001
Though the idea is dumb enough to be fun, director Roland Emmerich does the Terminator thing without much style, and the two stars bash into each other but never connect.
