30/11/2012

Universal Soldier 4- Day Of Reckoning (2012)

The flour on the head gag was too much for Claude VD.
 
I vaguely remember the first movie back in the day starring the 'action hero's' of that day, Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lungren,  never bothered with parts 2+3 (who would?) so why on earth did i bother with part four? No idea.

Well its total bollocks, painfully 'paced' (i.e dragged out) for 110 minutes, we get a fight/action scene involving both bad and good guys who can't shoot straight, a big, long dawn out brawl in a sports shop where weights and base ball bats are used as weapons, lucky it wasn't a Greggs or they'd have to resorted to steak bakes and sausage rolls!

This is followed by some awful dialogue ("I keep seeing things...things that aren't real") and cliche upon cliche, every male character is a macho fighting machine, women are all strippers and/or sluts, we get the obligatory 'bar scene', the place is rife with angry men drinking, playing pool or ogling strippers...and the bouncers chuck 'our man' out of the joint...literally.


Both Dolph Lungren and Claude Van Damme are given some bucks and Sanatogen to show up, Dolph resembles Popeye's Grandpa, CVD has gone a bit Marlon Brando/Apocalypse Now/Mr Jelly.

Utter nonsense.

***** 

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