Timecop star movie#

Yes, time travel is a slippery slope for screenwriters and directors to ride on and there are definitely a couple of moments in the movie that might have some viewers scratching and spark pertinent questions, yet it should be argued that dramatically, yes, dramatically, Hyams’ picture works rather well. Put succinctly, Timecop is not only Van Damme’s best film, but it is also a good film, period. Hyams himself is not exactly a household name, but any director that is willing to take on the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 2010, aka The Year We Made Contact) is a man willing to take risks and quite confident in his abilities to deliver the goods.

Timecop star series#

Based on a Dark Horse comic series with a legitimately interesting premise, it is directed by Peter Hyams and is boosted by a solid script, notwithstanding the typical criticisms one can lambast at how most films deal with the nebulous concept of time travel. Timecop represents something of a highlight in his filmography. Often derided for his wooden acting (and his accent, although that has never felt like a fair criticism), his movies have, for the majority, been hits, regardless of their dubious quality at times.

He is still very much involved in movie making, his most recent major role as the antagonist in the second Expendables film in 2012. ( Bloodsport being the film that put him on the map). Jean-Claude Van Damme is an action icon whose star rose very early in his career. A mission to the early 1930s leads Max to believe that current presidential hopeful Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) is using time travel to his own nefarious benefit, a plot that just might have even played a role in his wife’s demise. Flash forward ten years later in 2004, and Walker is a seasoned member of the TEC, the Time Enforcement Commission, a police division managed by Eugene Matuzak (Bruce McGill). In 1994, on the day Washington police detective Max Walker ( Jean-Claude Van Damme) is about to accept a new position as a member of a secretive police squad that will employ time travel in order to stop criminals that have already set foot in the past to commit various illegal activities, his wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is brutally murdered by unknown thugs.