![]() ![]() The more you think about its plot, the less sense it makes, which is why I encourage you to simply enjoy Timecop as one of Van Damme’s best vehicles rather than ruining your enjoyment by over-thinking. Like most movies about time travel, Timecop doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I’ve seen all of those movies except for Timecop so when a kindly patron chose it for Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 I leaped at the opportunity to finally get around to correcting an unforgivable blind spot in my knowledge of film. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Dumb and Dumber, Little Women, Nobody’s Fool, Chungking Express and Timecop were all released. That was the magical time when I turned eighteen, graduated from high school and began college AND Cabin Boy, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Reality Bites, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Ref, Clifford, Red Rock West, Serial Mom, Lion King, PCU, Crooklyn, Fear of a Black Hat, Speed, Wolf, Forrest Gump, True Lies, Fresh, Natural Born Killers, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption, Ed Wood, Hoop Dreams, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Bullets Over Broadway, The Last Seduction, Stargate, Heavenly Creatures, The Professional, Mrs. ![]() I think we can all agree that the most important year in the history of the universe was 1994. The price goes down to seventy-five dollars for all subsequent choices. It’s the career and site-sustaining column that gives YOU, the kindly, Christ-like, unbelievably sexy Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place patron, an opportunity to choose a movie that I must watch, and then write about, in exchange for a one-time, one hundred dollar pledge to the site’s Patreon account. But that’s another story for another time.Welcome, friends, to the latest entry in Control Nathan Rabin 4.0. Universal, director Peter Hyams, producer Moshe Diamant and Jean-Claude would go on to make the greatest sports movie about hockey and terrorists ever set in Pittsburgh next - Sudden Death. There would be no Van Damme starring sequel, but there was a nearly forgotten ABC series in 1997 and a direct-to-video sequel, Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision, in 2003. For example, this movie follows nearly none of Van Damme’s movie tropes, save the split that he uses. Back to his own timeline.īack in 2004, Walker finds that he has fixed the timeline and his wife has survived. As same matter can’t be in the same place, they disappear and our hero goes back to the…I’m not going to say back to the future. That night, both the 19 Max team up to defeat McComb’s killers, but Max ends up shoving the young and old versions of the villain together. He goes against all the rules and warns her that she will be killed. ![]() Even though his boss doesn’t know about this alternative timeline, he still sends Max into an experimental time machine and sacrifices his life.īack in 1994, Fielding is murdered and Max discovers that his wife was pregnant. Max’s partner turns on him and he barely escapes to a future where McComb has shut down the TEC and is ready to become President. The future older McComb comes back in time and tells his younger self to not touch him and how the computer chip will change their lives. Max then meets his new rookie partner Sarah Fielding and they go back to 1994 to investigate McComb and his business partner Jack Parker. He refuses to testify and is brought back to 1929 to resume his fall. That’s when he learns that he’s working for S enator McComb, who is stealing money for his upcoming presidential campaign.Ītwood attempts to kill himself by jumping off a building, but Max catches him and brings him to the future for a trial. ![]() He goes back to 1929 to stop his former partner from making money from the stock market crash. The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) keep time travel for being used for anything illegal and they get their finding thanks to Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver, who much like Chris Sarandon, will always screw you over). Police officer Max Walker has been offered a position but is unsure until his wife Melissa (Mia Sara, Legend, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) is killed.įast forward ten years and now Max is a TEC vet under the command of Commissioner Eugene Matuzak (Bruce McGill, D-Day from Animal House). It is star Jean-Claude Van Damme’s highest-grossing film as a lead actor and one of his better films, as well as the home of what is probably his most ridiculous split ever - until he did the Volvo commercial that is. Timecop was created and co-written by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden, who along with Ron Randall, had presented the character’s adventures in the pages of Dark Horse Comics. ![]()
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