A fairly decent film for a Jean Claude Van Damme movie. The time travel plot is well thought through and Van Damme at times actually allows himself to get beaten up by the bad guys. The plot has Van Damme as guess what, a cop traveling through time attempting to keep a corrupt politician from becoming President of the United States. The challenge for time cop Van Damme is to keep from changing the future. This is all fairly cleverly worked out in the screenplay.
The most tiresome aspect of this film is the gratuitous love scene between Van Damme and the actor Mia Sara who gets to roll around naked with Van Damme, lucky her. You can be sure that someone insisted on inserting this sex tease stuff to satisfy the drooling teenage nerds watching the film. Later there is a virtual reality nude scene the viewer has to sit through as well that adds nothing to the story. These scenes actually hurt the film and drag the film into the "B" status category.
Jean Claude Van Damme was always the poor man's Bruce Lee or Arnold Schwarzenegger (take your pick). His specialty was kicking people. In TimeCop he kicks lots of people. Bruce McGill who played "D-Day" in National Lampoon's Animal House a long time ago, is Van Damme's boss. Ron Silver is the hiss able evil Senator villain and it's a cliched character to be sure but he puts it over.
The action is decent, the story is interesting. Peter Hyams the director keeps things moving along. The film is entertaining even with it's tiresome sex scenes and for the most part doesn't outstay it's welcome.
The film was written by Mark Verheiden, the running time is 98 minutes.
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