From the opening chase to the closing explosions this one follows the action movie formula to the letter.
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:3
Rotten:48
Average Rating:2.8/10
Consensus: This movie fails on almost every level from second rate action to bad acting and a formulaic story.
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) is back! Having retired from his career as a Universal Soldier, he now serves as a technical advisor on a top-secret government project to design a stronger, smarter,... [More]
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Heidi Schanz, Xander Berkeley
Director: Mic Rodgers
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Reviews for Universal Soldier: The Return
[A] gratuitously violent film.
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Despite all the pyrotechnics, I almost dozed off twice!
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Top CriticThere's really no hint of tension or excitement whatsoever.
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In addition to watching a thoroughly lousy movie, you'll lose an hour and a half of your life you might otherwise spend on considerably more pleasant endeavors, such as having your feet scraped by a podiatrist's scapel...
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The script is utterly witless.
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The film fails, utterly, at virtually anything it attempts.
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Top CriticI discovered that my thesaurus lists more than one hundred synonyms for the adjective 'bad'!
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The Return has the cramped, shoddy look of a straight-to-video knock-off.
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Further proof that the international star once destined to challenge Schwarzenegger and Stallone at the box office is again stuck scraping the bottom of the action-movie barrel.
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Plenty of bone-crunching brawn, but not a brain cell in sight.
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An endless barrage of action-packed fights sure to please all of Van Damme's diehard fans!
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Top CriticThis is one 'return' that's surely welcome!
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Top CriticIf the world is ever to be truly safe from Universal Soldiers, they, like Achilles, can suffer a mortal wound in only one place. For them, it’s the box office!
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Once again, Van Damme has made a truly horrendous movie that's not even worth watching for the mindless action.
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What separates this one from all his rest? Not much.
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One generic set piece comes after another, ultimately blurring into one unmemorable whole by the end of the film.
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Universal Soldier is nothing for anyone to be proud of, on either side of the screen.
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Top CriticIt's gotten to the point where most action fans -- heck, most 4-year-olds -- could write a script like this!
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The Muscles from Brussels mouths dialogue that wouldn't challenge a bivalve - and in an accent that makes Stallone sound like a master of elocution.
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