Film of the week : Universal Solider

Universal Solider may be a muscle filled gun romp through boyish sci-fi violence, yet I wonder what motivates the solders. How the actors get into character, no really how can you get into that character.

Puns about bad acting aside this film really isn’t one for depth or even much of a story but it does have plenty of Jean-Claude Van Damme. This 1992 action flick is up there with Demolition Man for lack of most of everything required in a film being attempted to be filled with muscles and guns. Not a subtle film but perhaps you can over look that fact because of "The Muscles from Brussels", or not. Either way this is probably the best film that "Mr. Belgium" has ever been in.

The film outlines the story of Vietnam war veterans reanimated by a section of the American military. Funnily enough in this case raising the dead to do evil doers bidding doesn't work out so well, and the rest, well that would spoil what little story the film has so I'll leave that for you to figure our, or perhaps even watch. If you haven't seen this before expect kind of a mix of Demolition Man, Terminator, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Whilst that does probably give this little bit of cinema a touch too much credit, watch this first instalment of the Universal Soldier now five part series. Though it is discreetly possible that you may get the picture from the first one.


Enjoy!