Cristi Conaway plays the attractive female Claire Hemmings who is the brains of the operation she essentially uses her skills to download details of past events into the Timecop’s heads, so they know how to survive in the various times they travel back to. Our lead is Jack Logan (Ted King) who is a very 90’s character with corny dialogue but he’s still appealing as are the rest of the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) that he works with. Sadly the short-lived TV series from the 90’s also doesn’t bring Walker back but it is a bit of a guilty pleasure show. Review: If ever there was a movie I wanted a sequel to it was Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Timecop I know we got Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision with Jason Scott Lee but I always wanted to see more of Max Walker. Dale Easter, wisecracking technician Claire Hemmings and Jack’s boss, Eugene Matuzek. The TEC team working with Jack include dorky but brilliant Dr. That’s an agency that monitors old newspapers to look for “ripples in time” that signal bad guys have traveled into the past and are trying to change history for their own insidious ends. Plot: In the near future, cocky Timecop Jack Logan tries to “protect the past and preserve the future” by going on time-traveling missions assigned by the Time Enforcement Commission. Timecop wasn’t ever going to win an Oscar, but you’ll be hard pressed to find any fault with its entertainment value, and it’s worthy of a place on any action fan’s shelf.Timecop: The TV Series isn’t exactly classic television but it’s still makes for a good time with an amiable lead and some cool ideas. It’s a shame that these type of films are not really made anymore other than for the straight-to-DVD market, as sometimes all you want to do on a Friday night is go down to the local cinema and enjoy a movie that lets you switch your brain off and go with the flow. There’s no overly-complicated plot, and the cast isn’t exactly stellar, but it doesn’t matter, because you find yourself caught up in it and cheering for the good guy, and hoping everything works out okay for him in the end. What is key to the enjoyment of this film, though, is the fact that it’s not ashamed of being exactly what it is – an out-and-out action film. The 5.1 surround soundtrack also isn’t awful, but isn’t exceptional, and I was hoping for a bit more in fairness. The film itself stands up very well, and the transfer, bar the odd scene that is slightly fuzzy around the edges, can hold its head up high with other early-90s movies. What is also impressive is the film’s high-def upgrade. You have the classic good-versus-evil battle with Ron Silver taking almost pantomime-villain delight as Senator McComb, and Van Damme has never been better on the big screen than as the tormented Walker in a role that finally got the critics off his back for his rather hit-or-miss acting skills. However, these two bugbears do not stop Timecop being a very entertaining movie. You’ll also have to suspend your belief somewhat – even in 1994, I think it may have been a push to believe that, in ten years’ time, we would all own self-driving cars that look like something a Blue Peter presenter made. The first thing I would suggest not to do is to try to follow the story, as the timelines are all over the place, and there are plot holes as big as your head. It also focuses on how many different ways Van Damme can kick ass. Happily, though, the movie never really delves into those deep sorts of questions, and instead focuses on the greed of people, and how far they will go to ensure they get what they want. The plot poses an interesting question: if you could time travel, how could you police it, and stop people going back and changing things? What if Hilter was taken out before World War II? Would something bigger and more destructive and evil take its place? However, there is a bit of a twist, and rather than facing time travelling robots, the threat is a lot closer to home. I’ve always thought of Timecop as a bit of a bastard child of The Terminator, and viewing the film 16 years later, it is actually pretty obvious where it got the majority of its plot from. When Walker’s partner refuses to testify against McComb, Walker decides to go after him himself, which leads back to the fateful day in 1994 when his wife died – the attack wasn’t so random, after all. But all is not as it seems, as the senator in charge of the project, Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) is using time travel to fund his presidential campaign. Ten years later, and Walker is a key member of the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC).
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