Time Cop

Five for five, can you believe it. Mr. Van Damme is having the run of a life time. Another great movie, another great performance. And again fresh story idea. Now time travel has been done before, but the idea of enforcing time travel through the use of a Washington DC law enforcement agency now that's different. In Time Cop Van Damme plays Office Max Walker a Washington DC cop that gets recruited into a newly formed law enforcement organization that polices time travel and arrests anyone that attempts to visit the past in an attempt to change anything, especially for personal gain. Walker's wife and unborn child are killed the night before he joins the new agency. He has resisted the temptation to return to the past and save their lives, until the opportunity arises where he gets to stop the greedy Senator Aaron McComb, Ron Silver, who is trying to position himself in the past to make a fortune in the future to fund is Presidential campaign. By tracking down this Senator Van Damme gets the chance to save his wife.

This movie feautres a couple of gun battle and some mixed fighting action sequence that make use of both weapons and hand to hand combat. One particular scene of note include Van Damme and one of the random thugs in a knife fight, which came across as very cool on the film. The fight was choregraphed so that knives were used as almost miniture swords. There was a lot of clashing and clanging of the blades with the occasional slash or two. Unlike Hard Target the action in this movie was not staged as a deliberate fight scene or was set up more like Universal Soldier where all the fighting happens within the context the storyline. Not to say that this is wrong; it is worth noting becuase even though it does not a huge elaborate action sqeunce it does have some great special effects and some memorable moments, like appearing in the past right in front of an 18-wheeler.