Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

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   Emiam

   4/10 2 years 2 months ago
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   manwithpetgull

   Can't believe there's a Van Damme movie influenced by, of all people, Gaspar Noe. Loved it. 9 years 8 months ago
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   Siskoid

   After eschewing the Unisol formula in Regeneration, writer-director John Hyams made Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning all about conditioning and turned in a mind-bender starring Scott Adkins (Ip Man 4) as a new Universal Soldier, but he doesn't know it. The movie pushes the "Bourne" element pretty far, but its main inspiration is Apocalypse Now, with JCVD's Luc Devereaux as a Kurtz-like figure, and Dolph Lundgren as his high priest. Very weird roles for them, but I certainly appreciate how Hyams is breaking the mold he's been handed. They are liberating conditioned soldiers, creating a religion/culture/insurrection of their own, but the soldiers are only really trading one form of conditioning with another. Pondering the question of free will in the middle of all this brutal carnage may cause a bit of cognitive dissonance. Speaking of Surgeon General warnings, Hyams' directorial flair may or may not be epilepsy-friendly. I know they run these things through filters, but sheesh, it made me wonder if I got brainwashed during those hallucinatory scenes. Bottom line: Day of Reckoning does something completely different within the franchise, in fact unlikely in ANY action franchise, while still delivering a lot of action. Respect! 1 year 7 months ago

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