Even the time travel-related story twists get tired. Someone must have really wanted an action scene on a house roof.īy the third act, the absence of character development and transitional scenes have caught up with Timecop. Nothing about the architecture actually lends itself to the sequence. Hyams’s direction of the sequence doesn’t suggest any great interest in doing an action scene on a Victorian house’s roof. Van Damme can’t high kick or do the splits while he’s crawling around the roof–in a rainstorm–trying to save Sara (again). First, how does Van Damme afford such a big house in the DC area. There’s an action set piece on a Victorian house’s roof. The movie’s not even a hundred minutes and the last third has multiple slowdowns. Some of the resulting fight scenes are good, but Hyams drags it out too long. The rest of the cast is the seemingly endless group of thugs Silver sends after Van Damme. He’s Van Damme’s gritty boss who’s really just a softie. She’s not as likable as Bruce McGill, who has to pretend to give a crap about time travel exposition. She’s not good, but she’s kind of likable. When he gets around to a contradictory character, someone who can’t just be a thin caricature, he dumps the character as soon as possible. Screenwriter Mark Verheiden does caricature, never anything more. Mia Sara’s okay as Van Damme’s wife, though she’s only around to be a damsel in distress and to beg Van Damme for nookie. It’s like Hyams refused to be dismissive of the concept and he was going to do whatever he could. Their design is unfortunate, but there’s a certain dedication to the special effects and design work. You know it’s the past because there aren’t the future cars of 2004. #TIMECOP CAR MOVIE#The movie apparently doesn’t have the budget for multiple jaunts, just a couple before Van Damme is only jumping back to 1994. Even though he doesn’t do much as a timecop. It’s like someone went through and chucked it. #TIMECOP CAR FULL#Timecop has a full plot, it just doesn’t have any character development. He’s definitely evil he’s just nothing more. Anyway, Silver’s a caricature playing a caricature. Silver’s all over the place, the evil senator out to use time travel to win the presidental election and go after “special interests.” Who knew Timecop would be so prescient. Van Damme’s unsure, cautious performance–he tries to understate his terrible attempts at one-liners–is a great counter to Ron Silver’s bad guy. Hyams also manages to get a perfectly serviceable performance out of lead Jean-Claude Van Damme. There’s often something off about it, but then director Hyams will do something else decent and distract.
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