by Universal Studios
Sales Rank: 15206
Price: $8.49
In the year 2004 time travel is not only a reality but an opportunity to alter the past for power and profit. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 03/28/2006 Starring: Jean-claude Van Damme Bruce Mcgill Run time: 98 minutes Rating: R Director: Peter Hyams
Viewer Reviews Timecop was Jean-Claude Van Damme's best grossing movie...and while the plot isn't easy to follow...the movie does flow at a steady pace. Released in 1994 and based off a comic book by Mark Verheiden...Timecop is a time-traveling romp that spans ten tumultuous years. The movie begins with one of the best opening scenes ever to start a film. Confederate Soldiers are delivering a shipment of gold to General Lee and in the midst of pouring rain an outlaw stands in the way of their progress...with the words "I'll let you pass, just give me the gold" the movie is underway. In this opening scene there are five heavily armed Confederate Soldiers escorting the general's gold...and they would sooner shot this lone outlaw than continue any sort of discussion. With a final request by the outlaw to hand over the gold...General Lee's soldiers reach for their muskets...only to be out drawn and gunned down by a man with two fully loaded automatic hand guns.
The movie then flashes to the next timecrook. TEC (Time Enforcement Commission) Agent Walker's (Jean-Claude Van Damme) partner has turned rogue and time travels back to the great depression. While stock market traders are jumping from high rise buildings, the rogue cop visits his penthouse, pulls out a USA Today, and buys highly valued stocks of modern time at 1920 prices. Agent Walker is sent back to bring his ex-partner to justice. At this point in the film the plot begins to reveal itself. A young Senator, Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) is a presidential hopeful and uses time travel as a way to illegally obtain money to finance his candidacy. Agent Walker, thus spends the rest of the movie trying to stop and prove that Senator McComb is trying to buy the election and alter the future.
The film does has some notable co-stars. Melissa Walker (Mia Sara) plays Agent Walker's wife...and is instrumental in advancing the story. Eugene Matuzak (Bruce McGill) is head of the TEC and directs the agents on which cases to pursue and when to travel...he is also Agent Walker's best friend in the film. Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben) is an internal affair's agent assigned to follow Agent Walker after his ex-partner went rogue. She is also instrumental in advancing the film...and while the plot is difficult to understand...this is one of Jean-Claude Van Damme's best films...and his most acclaimed.
