Timecop (1994) - Comedic Movie Review
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2021
- Van Damme it everybody! Today on Redeye Reviews we are watching Jean-Claude Van Dammes movie, TimeCop (1994).
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben, Scott Bellis, Jason Schombing, Scott Lawrence, Kenneth Welsh,
Director: Peter Hyams,
Writer: Mark Verheiden, Mike Richardson,
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The only way to talk about Timecop is to just have fun with it. Good stuff, man!
Thank you so much Adam! I agree. If a movie doesn't take itself too seriously, you shouldn't either :)
@@RedEyeReviews Looking at your channel, I'm guessing you have a lot of passion for B movies, or the "so bad they're good" type.
LOL, I think he actually means "Spared every expense" like "See, we're not wasting any government money" because the place is so sparse and industrial - it looks more like a parking garage than a high-tech futuristic lab. Also...Bruce McGill makes every movie better!
17:33 this guy has probably never used a fountain pen before - those things are an ink explosion waiting to happen. Love the anachronistic music in the background.
This movie is awesome, thanks for the review!
That makes WAY more sense to me lol. I was very confused.
Came here to make this point, thanks 👍😂
Bruce McGill wasa real fun as "God" in Quantum Leap
Fountain pens really aren't as troublesome as movies and TV have made them out to be. You're more likely to get ink on your hands while filling a fountain pen from a bottle of ink than from the open itself leaking on you. And cartridge pens eliminate that hassle completely. LOL
So I've been binge watching your entire channel. You've always been really good at this. But if you watch all the uploads back to back, you can really see how much sharper you have gotten as time has gone by.
Aww thank you very much :) I'm glad you are enjoying the channel
You're right on both counts Red-Eye, my man. You cannot carbon-date gold, as carbon dating (more accurately called "radiocarbon 14 dating") measures the amount of an isotope of carbon (carbon 14) that is left in a given sample. And carbon is not present in gold, as gold (au on the Periodic Table of Elements) is its own element-- as is carbon..
In order for radiometric carbon 14 dating to work, the sample to be tested must be a)I organic, which just means carbon based chemistry, not. _necessarily_ biological in nature and b) less than 60,000 years old. Science has other dating methods, but "carbon dating" is most famous among lay people.
And you are spot on about the gold-- if it could be carbon dated-- would. Be the same age it was when the time-bandits (lol) brought it back to the future (lol again) which would be billions of years old as gold is one of the heavier than helium and hydrogen metals that formed in stars that then released it when they went supernova. That is how all elements besides hydrogen and helium formed.
Yes, I am a pedantic uber-nerd! Cheers ;)
Woot! I am so glad I did enough research to not talk out of my butt lol. Thank you for making me feel intelligent
@@RedEyeReviews Technically you can carbon date gold to a degree, especially when it comes to older forgings, as it has organic impurities which can be dated. 60,000 year old Mapungubwe gold was able to be carbon dated because of organic inperfections found inside the gold bars. If for example the confederate gold had wood splinters in/around it from shipping or something, they would be able to date it.
However, like you said.. it would be a very short time period if it was brought back, not 200+ years old.
@@fuzzybabyducks7878 I would think with gold, when dealing with the hundreds of years, you would just reverse calculate based on the decay due to oxidization
You could look at the composition of the gold and see how much gold or where it came from to check the date. If its composition is from a particular mine that operated between certain years that could give you an idea of how old the gold is.
@@soulknife20 oh yes I agree, there are ways to date things besides carbon-14 dating.
I was just pointing out that you're not going to date gold with the carbon-14 dating method, cuz it just wouldn't work. For some reason, almost any time dating is mentioned in media, movies or even nonfiction, it is carbon dating-- even though there's many ways to date things. I mean, that's how we verify that carbon-14 dating is accurate-- we have ways to cross confirm it with other dating methods, which young earth creationists love to ignore when they attack carbon-14 dating as "completely unreliable" LOL
I remember seeing Time Cop along with The Shadow as a double feature, when I was a kid at a drive-in theater. My dad fell asleep because he didnt like either of them but I had such a good time lol
It's comic book relation, timing, quality of presentation, Van Damme fans and lack of other more interesting films around release were what made this film a hit. During the 1990's people actually went to movie theaters EVERY Friday and Saturday evening. By 2000 several of the theaters here closed, I assume this happened everywhere.
Movie night was a big part of my weekends in the army. You have not truly gone to the movies until you sit in a packed theater full of drunk, rowdy GIs who have spent 3 weeks in the field. The level of audience participation during an action, horror or comedy film is unmatched.
It's what going to the movies should always be. Cheap, raucous fun and a full bore experience.
Any JCvD movie was guaranteed fun.
Not really 2000. Actually, around here a lot of the theaters that closed were more because people were demanding better seating, so the theaters that stayed in business were either very cheap or the ones that had stadium seating and better concession stands.
Now due to streaming you get all these mid-budget kind of movies moving to television as movies or shows. Audiences more or less want blockbuster IP and Hollywood obliges. I think only blaming Hollywood for this or that is a semi-excuse, because Hollywood is ultimately a business like any other that gives people what they want. However, the $1-5 million movies still get made and take chances with theatrical audience tastes.
@@squamish4244 I think the movie industry is just not as booming as it once was given all of the video games available now. And they ran out of ideas for good movies 15 to 20 years ago, they have been remaking everything as cheaply as possible loaded with special effects. The NEW generations didn't and don't want to sit through that, they want to be a part of it, they want to play . They don't want to watch some terribly choreographed redundant uninspired lackluster movies. They want to be in the action, they want to be the action. Video games win.
@@josephwintrich7294 "Hollywood is out of ideas" is a cliche I have heard many times. The big blockbusters make inhuman amounts of money. Small films are often original and interesting because they can take more risks. A lot of the creativity has also moved to television, as many tv shows are basically like movies now but streaming services offer the great benefit of limited liability i.e. with subscriptions the success of the network is what matters relatively more now than the success of a particular show.
Wait a minute... They teleport their agents right in front of TRUCKS in traffic, but they can teleport back that dude in the middle of his fall?
Also: I've always wondered what happened with the cars they travel in to the past. How THAT works?
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Hahaha the French will love it. I'm so glad you like the channel
That black black commercial omg Van Damme was killing it
Lol for real! If his acting career fell through, his commercial acting was on point.
Peter Hyams also made the great Die Hard clone Sudden Death (1995) with Van Damme.
I love AND hate Sudden Death simultaneously. Van Damme is not Bruce Willis.I don't like the child actors in the film and Powers Boothe used to be better. But for some Reason i dont't see,I watch the film occasionaly.It's kind of amusing.
JCVD’s second most glorious hairdo. First being his mullet in Hard Target!
Oh I must watch Hard Target for the hair alone
@@RedEyeReviews Don’t be alarm if your computer or tv bursts into flames from all the awesomeness! Seriously, it’s like he walked into the hairdresser and said, “make my hair look like that achy-breaky guy”. (Am I dating myself?)
@@losttribe3001 haha oh I can't wait. Hey Billy Ray Cyrus isn't THAT old
I think they did the hairdo as it was the only way to really tell his younger and older self apart.
Been years since I saw Timecop. I remember quite enjoying it. Peter Hyams also directed _2010,_ a seriously underrated sci fi classic.
2010 was great!
5:40 speaking of Butterfly Effect, Peter Hyams also directed “A Sound of Thunder”, which cost 80 million but strangely looks like 2 million
Oh my gosh that looks incredible. 6% rotten tomato lol. But it literally the shirt story of the butterfly effect turned movie. I will for sure be watching it.
@@RedEyeReviews Add-on: The best parts in the world is where the characters pretend they are walking in a green screen background and the vehicles are actually the same style like in this movie.
Peter Hyams directed "Outland" and "2010", both seriously great movies. I doesn't feel right that his career took such a sharp downward turn and that he hasn't made a movie in, like, the last ten years.
I think the production company went bankrupt before most of the special effects shots could be completed.
@@kuribayashi84 The last movie Peter Hyams directed starred JCVD too. His son has directed some DTV movies, including a couple of Universal Soldier installments with JCVD.
Ah you cut short the best line “poor bastard (tomorrow might have been a brighter day)”
"And he brought a bomb, which is an aggressive maneuver" 😂 Keep up the great work with your reviews! You hit a fun tone of reverent nitpicking.
Thank you! So glad you are enjoying it
Another hilarious review. I just have to say how happy - and impressed - I am that you're approaching 20K subscribers. That's awesome and well deserved. Happy 2022.
Thank you so much!! :D its been really cool to see some real growth
I saw this film in the theaters as a kid on a Sunday afternoon, after staying at my friend's house on Friday and Saturday night. We hadn't slept for any of that period of time--we'd stayed up beating various Genesis and Super NES games--and by the time Sunday rolled around I was so delirious that it was basically the equivalent of tripping balls. I tried to stay awake to watch the movie, but kept falling asleep in the dark, cool theater; then I'd wake up periodically with only the vaguest idea of where I was, and no idea at all what was going on in the crazy movie I was seeing. Good times.
I remember when this came out (saw it at the theater lol), and they had the kitchen splits in literally every form of trailer or preview for the movie, all over TV. It sold it.
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They can't control where they land in the past, except the first one where he walked into his office nice and easy.
Haha right,?
I noticed the same thing. Big movie error.
I have theory that government cut budget. Senator MacComb always land in right spot.
Always good to see Bruce McGill in roles - an old favorite since MacGyver.
Wow, same here 👍🏾👍🏾
And he wasn't banging JCVD's wife here like he did Bruce Willis's in Last Boy Scout.
To think he was only in his mid 30's during mcguyver.
This review is brilliant. Your JCVD split references and comments are hilarious but the "I would have 'loved' to see Jean Claude and future Jean Claude do the splits together..." took me out 🤣😂🤣😂 Thank you for making me laugh so much!
Timecop is actually a surprisingly satisfying watch. Just enjoy it, and try not to think about it too hard. :)
Timecop is a great movie. Back in the 1980's here in Australia there was a former cricket player and sports show host called Max Walker, this added much more entertainment value to Timecop at cinemas.
One mention of Max and the Wide World of Sports theme song starts playing in my head lol
Dude I’ve been binge watching your channel for the last couple days and it’s just amazing. Like you’re the best movie reviewer ever.
Aww thank you so much! I'm really glad you like all the videos :)
Another great video
Thanks man
I remember loving this movie as a teenager when it came out
5:25 His splits were KEY! They were INSTRUMENTAL!
I imagine at the end of the movie he wouldn't try to fake remembering the last 10 years. He would just admit to his wife that he got back from the past from that day where everything went to shit. Wouldn't you? Kind of like X-Men: Days of Future Past.
You got me - Alexa is now playing Coldplay! LOL!
Yes! Score 1 for Redeye
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Thank you so much!
I was very disappointed the crime agency was called the Time Enforcement Commission (T.E.C.), clearly a much better name would have been the Time Weapon And Tactics Service (T.W.A.T.S.)or maybe the Time Intervention Taskforce Service(T.I.T.S.) am I right? :-) These reviews are so funny, you inspired me RedEye, thanks.
Really enjoying your review videos. Fantastic work.
Thank you so much
I love that I typed in "film criticism" and this video popped up
Oh wow! I love that too lol
18:22 "You know for something they'd planned...you wouldn't think there'd be as many sparks as there are. " -RedEye(and also every AeroSpace Engineering person EVER)
lol I get sparks look cool. but usually that means something went wrong
@@RedEyeReviews "Why didn't we use bearings and grease on the time capsule? We probably wouldn't have needed to make it rocket powered!"
@@mattrobson3603 lol excellent point. But no metal skis directly on metal rails
I got to admit that JCVD is my guilty pleasure...a national treasure shining bright through the large shadow of Steven Seagal.
Why even Guilty pleasure? Just pleasure. He is awesome for sure!
@@RedEyeReviews lol, I saw street fighter at the movies....7 times...I lost friends because of that pleasure.
@@yogafire646 hahaha what a movie though!
@@RedEyeReviews I was a disturbed kid for sure but Raul Julia killed it as M.Bison!
Sorry but anyone who saw Street Fighter even once in a theatre let alone seven times is kind of asking for it.
The old Irish guy on the sidewalk when they leap out the window is the best part of this movie
18:56 "we passed 600, which is super cool"...
I always love watching videos with comments such as that one. 17400 subscribers now. And deserved.
Thank you!
If you had asked me, I would have swore they DID in fact do the splits together at some point. Mandela splits.
You would think!
You're wrong Redeye, I submit that "Bonjour Nerds" IS a good greeting.
Lol thanks friend
I love ur videos they're soothing !
Grew up loving that movie. Cause I always been so fascinated with time travel, and nothing goes perfectly together like Jean claude and time travel lmao
So he didnt bring the gold back to the present time with him. I think what the movie tried to do, was have the man go back in time. Steal the gold. Stash it somewhere he knows wont be messed with through his current time. Goes back to his current time himself, and goes to the spot where he stashed the gold in the past. This is why the gold aged. I just dont think the movie implemented the story very well
You definitely jus activated my Google assistant when you said "ok Google" haha
Yes! Score
Legit movie… 10/10 for the splits alone 🤣
You have great content on your channel, I just subscribed
Thank you so much
Jean Claude must've had a clause in all his contracts allowing at least ONE scantily-clad splits scene per film.
9:07 thanks for that, hadn't even crossed my mind until you mentioned it
I think the way it works is that people in the past cannot travel to the future because it has not happened for "them" yet, but since is has happened for those from the future then those people can go back to their present. I did like how "Project Almanac" treated the premise of encountering your past self as it starts as a feedback loop that amplifies progressively until they cancel each other out of existence.
This has to be my favorite movie review channel. You should review samurai cop. So over the top extra. So extra.
Aww thank you! Samurai Cop is on my short list for sure
My aunt got a job as a cannonball. She wasn’t sure she’d be any good at until she got fired. Yes, you got someone.
This movie manages to look expensive/glossy and cheap AF at the same time. Like Van Damme's hair long and short at the same time.
Great review! Wished you had covered a classic line from the final act: "You see, I'm an ambitious, Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world. And you...you're a f**king idiot who never figured out the only way to make anything of himself with that all that fancy kicking was on Broadway."
Ron Silver did an excellent job playing the smug, arrogant villain.
Thank you! You did it. My Alexa is playing Coldplay now. You magnificent bastard! 😂😂😂
Hahaha YES my dream complete
@@RedEyeReviews Keep up the good work. Love the channel
Tnx for the lovely review. Interesting point of view with time travel. At the end, I was more lost then lost. Can you even say it like that? 😂JESUS CHRIST, youre killing it dude.
And the SPLITS😫. I could do it one time, and retire....with a wheelchair 😅.
But still a good movie, which I enjoy every now and then.
🙌 🍻
Dr Strange would even have a hard time trying to figure this out. Lol
A REAL hard time!
That 300zx at 3:00 is beautiful
I only just found this hidden gem of a channel a week ago, I think It's criminal the way these lazy channels can just list crappy reddit memes and get millions of views while RedEye here is making unique and hilarious film reviews but only getting 10k-20k views.
I appreciate the support friend! I'm just happy to make some entertainment for fellow movie fans :)
The going forward thing is based on theoretical physics. It says that if time travel were possible, it would involve moving at the speed of light and some other crap, but it would only be backwards. And you couldn't come back cause that's going forward. So good catch on the logical fallacy.
It's tough because on the other hand our brains simply don't work non-linearly even though the quantum world is non-linear. We see logical fallacies but are the reality fallacies because logic has limits? Time travel makes my head hurt.
But there are a few hypothesized ways around these problems in physics and if wormholes are real like general relativity allows for and recent research suggests could actually carry human-size objects through, I mean holy shit.
Time travel is difficult to do well.
It is a point in favor of Timecop that it doesn't even try.
I remember this movie growing up I loved it and still love it to this day
Very funny and very well done.Subscibed.👍
Wait a minute Mr. Red Eye weren't you just at full mast during the scene prior? The kettle and all that... lol j/k love your reviews my man.👍
Haha it's basically full mast for the entire movie.
So glad you like the videos friend
Timecop and splits= PB & J lol. I remember this movie from when I was a kid and thinking that it was the coolest shit ever! Watched it like a month ago and was surprisingly still entertained by it, those 90s action flicks were...... Just so 90s lol. Wait you did do Roadhouse, right🤔?
It is perfectly 90s. But super entertaining. I still need to do Roadhouse! Next time for sure
Damn man, was just talking about Van Damme to a buddy of mine and then this showed up in my feed. Looks like Skynet and its algorithms got it right. Guess I'll keep them happy and subscribe 🤪 JK good stuff man, looking forward to going through your back catalog and revisiting the good times.
Lol I wish I was apart of Skynet. I'd probably have more money.
Stumbled across this. Marking it ot come back and watch after my podcast on the movie later this week! Fun!
The fight at the end with the gun in his hand mashing the hulking guy is badass.
You don't bring the gold through time back but you hide it in 1863 and when the time comes you dig it out
“Anybody else gettin’ some funny feelings right now?” 🤣
Those goons were gooning so hard (to the max!), they could even be considered roughjacks. (Succession reference).
Canadian goose are the reason time travel is even an idea. So I suggest you let that one marinate!
Gotta do the movie Cyborg. Has an EPIC split.
Absolutely!
You just passed 600 at this video? In the future you are at 36K subs! Keep going past Red Eye!
So about the not-being-able-to-travel-to-the-future thing...
When the agents/villains travel back in time they have those return modules that they trigger in order to return to the present --- I think those modules anchor them to that moment in time (the present) so, in essence, they're not 'travelling to the future' but rather 'returning to the present'.
Best explanation I can come up with. Don't know if that makes sense?
The biggest plot hole for me is the method they use: those rail cars travelling at high speeds toward the wall. At the moment they time-travel the G's are so intense that they have those cartoony faces and are screaming in agony. Also, like you pointed out, they claim they can't target a specific place - hence, why they land in the lake and JCVD almost gets flattened by the truck. And yet...
JCVD, at the start of the film, and the villains - whenever they time-travel - all arrive at very specific places (office; factory) and are seen casually walking through the time portal - you know, like they didn't almost just suffer a high-speed aneurysm.
Awesome review --- love this film, despite its holes! xD
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14:37 I can not believe JCVD would want a stunt double for this. I would bet the producers just didn't wanna shell out for JCVD to film a few pick up shots, and hoped nobody would ever have the internet to disassemble movie flubs so fine and intensely.
With both Mccombs out of the way, wouldn't that cause the entirety of the TEC to no longer exist? Thereby causing the "future" Walker to simply disappear as he would no longer have the job at TEC...since it no longer needs to exist?
I over thought it so much haha. Why would the girl not exist in the future? She got shot as a future person in the past...so her past self is still alive and kicking and would grow up.
Saw this in the theater. And have the DVD. Leave your brain at the door enjoyable type of movie. Ya, he does the splits and shocks the guy. Ya, real vandamage!
This movie contains Probably the worst knife fight ever committed to film…
Which knife fight?
@@RedEyeReviews The post onion one. The way VD stands there clinking his knife against his attacker’s knife….appalling generic Hollywood action choreography.
@@Ray-M59 oh hahah I was so concerned over the food on the counter I spaced the fight out entirely. But yeah it's not great.
Sorry that award goes to THE Steven Seagal!
@@yogafire646 Yes, the Santa-bellied wig wearing martial arts “master” must always be considered in any debate on Hollywood action choreography!
Timecop surprisingly still holds up… lmao
Agreed!
It’s TIMEless
ha ha
Haven't seen this movie in a long time, but I think there was a pretty good ironic joke at 6:20 where someone says "Things will be better tomorrow" (or something like that) after the guy dies. This scene took place right before the stock market crash of 1929.
The villain should have disintegrated like when a player gets telefragged by another player in Doom. The people who made Doom knew what would happen when two objects occupied the same place.
Double Impact features duelling Van Dammes too. It's pretty amusing.
0:30 People were still wearing jackets (MA-1 flight jacket in that case) with the sleeves pushed up like that this far into the '90s? I was a teenager at the time and I don't recall ever seeing anyone doing that.
4:42 Sleeves pushed up (or rolled up) AND he has a mullet?! Somehow, even though he's come from 2004, he's even MORE retro than he was in 1994!
5:33 You don't necessarily need fancy futuristic weapons in 1929. The 1934 gun control act hadn't been passed yet, so an everyday Jojo could get their mitts on all the best stuff that was available at the time, including but not limited to a Tommy Gun or a Colt R75.
13:08 No 'Enter Sandman' reference?! Denied!
16:33 As Kyle Reese said, "Nobody goes home."
18:02 6:20 PM in June? Judging by those shadows, looks more like 4:00 PM.
I remember the African American actor in the beginning of this movie was also in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and played "Tony", in the Adam Hecht segment. He would have made a good Barack Obama for that matter as well! (L.O.L.!)
Squire. I love the Segal stuff and rightly So! I have a weak spot for JCVD and, throwing you know science and that to one side, not bad? He does not do the splits from a fat guy chair! Even now I think he is at least on set for fight scenes and back in the day he could clearly put boot to face, "Wolverine"!
16:24 Going forward in time in the context they were talking about was going into the future from where they were at that point in time in their timeline (The present). It meant that they could go back in time to a time that had already happened, but they couldn't go forward in time to a time that hadn't happened yet beyond their present. So Van Damme could go back in time from whatever year he originally left, but he couldn't go forward in time beyond whatever year he originally left.
I think That’s captain Braxton at 1:43, he served on board USS Relativity, he went rogue after encounters with the Voyager in the delta quadrant. I think this is how he started his career, as a time cop. Tempus Fugit…..captain Braxton
Fun fact, in Canada we don't use pennies anymore. Just round up or down... Crazy. Haha
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Haha thank you! I went to Toronto recently and discovered this very thing. Pretty interesting
@@RedEyeReviews lol. It was weird at the beginning..but, I believe it costs more to make 1 Penny than what it's worth... Have a great one and love ur funny great video's... See you on the next one. Thanks again
“The future hasn’t happened yet…”
Well it hasn’t happened to YOU yet.
If you travel back in time, the future has no longer happened as anything you’ve do might affect a new future that would then have to unfold. Even if nothing changes, the future won’t know that until you get there the hard way…
Maybe carbon tested as in the gold in fact hadn’t aged because its carvings were still relatively new compared to its much more dated present counterparts?
He looked so confused when he saw his son. 😆
17:44 Missed opportunity to use that Chris Tucker clip oh him saying “Damn! He ain’t gonna be in Rush Hour 3!”
The "can't go to the future" thing means they can't go ahead of the current date. That doesn't negate the idea of going back and forth between the beginning of time and your original date.
In Canada, we no longer have pennies. Our economy got so inflation filled that we LITERALLY round down for 1 or 2 cents to zero, and round up for 3 or 4 cents to a nickel. Dead serious fact.
If your matter (you) are from the future, you can return to that time. If your matter ( you) is in the present, you cannot go to the future. You can only return to the future from the past, not jump to a future that never existed.
yeah thsts pretty easy to understand. no sarcasm
We can’t afford decent lighting in the future.
Oh man Mia Sara is probably the best thing about this movie. She’s so fine looking. The time travel element of the movie is a bit too wonky to take seriously. But I understand that when this was made back to the future and the terminator movies were still fairly fresh in people’s minds so they had to try and be a bit different to stand out a bit.
But for the ending it seems nobody thought it was a bit awkward to have JCVD have to fake his way into a completely different future.
When really the heart is with him not having to bury his hot wife in the ground and start a family with her instead. I would have preferred if they let time traveling JCVD go back and focus on earlier JCVD and then fast forward to the future as a continuation of the altered timeline with him and his wife having a kid and then they could also show something like the time traveling shenanigans have been canceled because of what past JCVD did to communicate the dangers of screwing around with the past and show a slightly better world in which he can have his happy family guy ending.
Fin.
JCVD did the splits so hard he tore the fabric of time!
Oh wow, I used to remember that opening scene from my childhood, but I never quite remembered what movie it was from.
I think it would have been better to have the movie end with future Van Damme knowing he would be wiped out of existence due to his past self now making different choices, but he continues anyway to save the woman he loves. We would get a bittersweet ending where the woman is the only character to know what truly happened that night and Van Damme would be oblivious but have the memories of raising his son, which I think matters more to him anyway.
Days of Future's Past did it better with the main character who remembers a life that doesn't exist anymore, and they have mutations and lore excuses for it to be like that.
Love it! This was Van Dame’s BEST movie.
It was the only one mostly devoid of cheese. Had the best production value and just overall had the best quality of filmmaking.
I watched this in theatre ... but was too young to analyze like this lol
That lake they fell into upon arrival was the Tidal Basin in DC.