Universal Soldier - The Return Reviews
Top Critic
This is one 'return' that's surely welcome!
| Original Score: 4/5
An endless barrage of action-packed fights sure to please all of Van Damme's diehard fans!
If Universal Soldier: The Return isn't the dullest, most derivative, unimaginative, noisy, repetitive, mind-numbing and generally imbecilic movie of the year, it's not because director Mic Rodgers wasn't trying hard enough.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Empire Magazine
Whereas Emmerich's original had enough personality and energy to provide solid (if stupid) entertainment, Rodgers seems content to merely cobble together a succession of blatantly lifted-and poorly executed-set-pieces
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| Original Score: 1/5
AV Club
For the record, this is the fourth Universal Soldier movie if you count two cable sequels, but why would you?
It's actually the fourth entry in the series, after a couple of straight-to-cable sequels. That's a lot of pulp to squeeze out of a concept that was fairly juiceless to begin with.
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| Original Score: D+
An underwhelming follow-up to one of the career-stalled action star's better efforts.
Cinemaphile.org
Please, even if it means offsetting a planned schedule, do not see this movie. It could be the biggest mistake of your life. I should know: I made it.
This SF action sequel must have been slapped together fast: live-action stunts created by uninspired editing lead up to computer-generated imagery that's just as lame.
Filling out and greying at the temples, Van Damme is far from convincing, even in the tedious fight sequences.
Flipside Movie Emporium
Close your eyes and repeat after me: pro wrestlers must never ever EVER try to act.
| Original Score: 0/5
Film Threat
Hopefully this is the last we have seen of the Unisol series, but unfortunately the dearth of creativity in Hollywood, will allow it to live for another abysmal dumbing.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Sight and Sound
A disappointing entry to the sci-fi / action-movie canon.
3BlackChicks Review
I would suggest that you use this film solely as a form of torture.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Kalamazoo Gazette
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...
