Yeah I was gonna review Wait Until Dark but apparently YouTube doesn't have it anymore and getting a DVD copy from Netfilx takes a bit too long. I guess I'll review Wait Until Dark another time. So instead I'm reviewing Timecop which is based off the Dark Horse comic that was later adapted in 1994.
We start off in 1863 where Confederate soldiers are transporting gold to General Lee until they've been stopped by a man in the road. The man asked the soldiers to leave the gold but they don't take that under advisement. So the man shoots them down with machine guns. Wait...what. We cut to Washington D.C. 1994 where a committee meeting is taking place. Apparently it's revealed that time travel not only it's possible but it's already happening. And that traveling back in time to change certain events may cause heavy consequences in present time. As a result the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) was formed to policed time traveling technology and to protect time. We cut to a mall where we're introduce to Max Walker (played by Jean-Claude Van Damme) and wife Melissa (played by Mia Sara). They talk about whether or not he accepts the new job at TEC which he think so. Later at their house Walker gets a call from his station-house to report to duty. As soon as he about to leave he's attacked by armed man. They continue to beat down on until one shoots him but since he's a cop the bullets hit his vest. Seeing his wife in danger from the bedroom window he immediately rushes back to the house. But unfortunately before reaches the front porch there's an explosion destroys their house with Melissa still inside. We cut to Wall Street 1929 where a time criminal is manipulating the stock market gaining mass fortunes in well no time. He gets an unexpected visit by Walker now a TEC agent; apparently the two of them were partners. A fight breaks out between Walker and his ex-partner's bodyguards now considering that a couple of guy of the 1920s fighting a guy who knows more advanced fighting styles of the present. You can tell how this fight is going to end up. His ex-partner spills and tells him that he's been getting money for Senator Aaron McComb (played by Ron Silver) in attempts to become president. Refusing to go back to the present Walker's ex-partner jumps out of a window but Walker follows. During mid-fall Walker actives a devise that pulls them both back to the present. We cut to TEC HQ 2004 where his ex-partner is on trial he immediately pussy out not telling the judges what he told Walker. Therefore getting an on the spot death sentence which is returning him to the exact moment after he jumped out of the window; falling right to his death. Back in present time Walker warns his boss and friend Commander Eugene Matuzak (played by Bruce McGill) that Senator McComb is getting money from the past to fund his campaign. Not to mention half of the TEC agency under his money belt. But since his ex-partner refused to testify McComb is virtually untouchable. After that Walker heads home upon arriving he plays a video tape of him and Melissa. Now here you can see the conflict Walker is going through even though he can go can go back in time to save her. It's still against the law to do so whether it's a good cause or not. And more so he's a TEC agent meaning that has to uphold the law regardless of his own personal gain. And yet Walker remains completely incorruptible.
Later on as Walker was sleeping assassins sneak in his apartment and attack. Walker quickly reacts and takes them out. I can't exactly give this fight scene any justice by describing every detail. But I can tell this it's a pretty cool fight scene. The next day at TEC HQ, they've received disturbance in the ripple meaning someone has already traveled back to the past. Matuzak sends Walker and his new partner Sarah Fielding (playing by Gloria Reuben) to the past and investigate. Both Walker and Fielding abroad a time-pod which allows them to travel back in time sending them back to Washington D.C. 1994. The trail leads them to a microchip plant where they find the "younger" McComb being approached by the present McComb offering...his younger more money. Walker intervenes but surprise surprise Fielding is on McComb's payroll. A fight breaks out between Walker and McComb's men and let me tell you this action scene a really awesome music score. Walker takes out all McComb's men except for Fielding who McComb guns down. OK what kind of douche are you when you gun down your own guys? McComb escapes but Walker soon follows however, upon returning to the present a lot of changes happened. McComb is now ahead of the presidential polls and immediately shuts down TEC. So Walker convinces Matuzak to send him back in 1994 to bring back Fielding as witness. Back in 1994 Walker tracks down Fielding at a hospital still in critical condition. To prove that Fielding exist in the present, Walker steals blood samples but stumble across a pregnancy test of his wife which read positive. Back at Fielding's room Walker find her dead, poison injected in her I.V. Walker immediately leaves the hospital and heads to the same mall where his "younger" self and Melissa are at. He approaches Melissa convinces her that he's from ten years in the future before the two shared a kiss. Now remember it isn't cheating if it's the same guy from the future. So we come to the exact moments of the start of the film but this time Walker is ready for them. The scene turns into a game of hide and seek until both "past" and "present" Walker start taking out McComb's men. One goon shoots down "past" Walker but if you remember the first time BULLETPROOF VEST! "Present" Walker makes it back to the house where another fight breaks out but gets interrupted with McComb taking Melissa hostage. So it's a stalemate between "present" Walker and McComb. That is until "past" McComb arrives at the house by false pretense. Walker tosses "past" McComb right at "present" McComb causing a scenario where two identical people can't share the same place. Therefore causing the two McCombs erased from time. With only a few seconds left before the bomb goes off (which was set up by McComb). "Present Walker rushes Melissa out of the house just in time when the house explodes. With Melissa and "past" Walker safe, "present" Walker returns to the present with the timeline back to normal. TEC is still operational and Fielding is still alive. The film ends with Walker to his surprise returns to the same house from earlier in the film with a still alive Melissa and their ten year son welcoming him home.
My Final Verdict: This film is the perfect definition of both 90s action and sci-fi films. Sure the specifics of time travel could a little flawed but passable. Now I never read the comic so I can't say if the film follows the comic or not. But I can say that Timecop has a plot that's self-explanatory in my opinion. And apparently this film was made by the same director who made one of my favorite films of the 80s Running Scared.
Next week I'm taking a step backwards to a film that I kinda reviewed before started The Film Vindicator site. But back then it's was more of a rant because I hated this film so bad. But I can't leave it on a rant I really have to give it a proper review. So stick around as I review...ugh Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li.
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