production company: Dark Horse Entertainment, Renaissance Pictures.
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While his characterisation - a heroic lump of granite - fits this comic absurdity perfectly as he kicks, punches, lumpenly wisecracks, leaps from exploding buildings, always gets his man and pops through time with an impressive custard-like plop. The most recent Jean-Claude Van Damme horror project was to be The Legend Of Johnny Jones, which was set to feature the star as a detective hunting down a vicious serial killer stalking New Jersey. Jean-Claude Van Damme has been an action star and martial arts icon since the late. Van Damme once again bends and twists his muscular frame to superhuman excess, but his Belgian tonsils have all the flexibility of the Himalayas when it comes to splurting out his one-liners. Add in a time-twisting sub-plot involving Van Damme's dead-wife (Sara) and proof positive that making contact with yourself in the past has some unpleasant side-effects and you've got a rollicking, kickboxing variation on Groundhog Day.
Now, though, he has to reckon with megalomaniac, slightly-psychotic senator Ron Silver tapping history for enough wealth to fund his presidental campaign and paying negligable heed to the value of human life and those don't-fiddle-with-the-past rules. In 2004, scowling, haunted law enforcement officer Van Damme patrols the ultra hi-tech time paths to make sure no scheming so and so zips back down the years to adjustment the present, a task he achieves mainly by kicking them very hard in the head. But hey, this is meant to be nonsense and despite its mind-boggling pretensions, it still delivers pure sub-cranial entertainment. Timecop remains Van Damme's highest-grossing film as a lead actor (his second to break the $100 million barrier for a worldwide gross), becoming a cult classic with fans, and (though met with mixed reviews) it is generally regarded as one of Van Damme's better films by critics.It's a good thing the latest Van Damme actioner is based on a comic book, for if you give its sci-fi time-travel plot more than 10 seconds worth of thought, it disintegrates into a mish-mash of time-space continuum baloney. Police officer Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is. The story follows an interconnected web of episodes in the agent's life as he fights time-travel crime and investigates the politician's plans. When mankind perfects time travel, the government establishes the Time Enforcement Commission to thwart criminal attempts to alter the timeline.
He tracks down a former co-worker who went into the past to make money. Ten years later Max is still grieving but has become a good agent for the TEC. On the day he was chosen, some men attack him and kill his wife. A cop, Max Walker, is assigned to the group. It also stars Ron Silver as a rogue politician and Mia Sara as Melissa Walker, the agent's wife. It’s called Time Enforcement Commission or TEC. Federal agent in 2004, when time travel has been made possible. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Max Walker, a police officer in 1994 and later a U.S. The film is based on Timecop, a story created by Richardson, written by Verheiden, and drawn by Ron Randall, which appeared in the anthology comic Dark Horse Comics, published by Dark Horse Comics. Its a good thing the latest Van Damme actioner is based on a comic book, for if you give its sci-fi time-travel plot more than 10 seconds worth of. Richardson also served as executive producer. Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action film directed by Peter Hyams and co-written by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden.