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Summary: A solid DTV sequel...
Review: "Timecop" is the Van Damme movie that almost everyone has seen two minutes of. Now we have "Timecop: The Berlin Decision," a sequel-in-name-only starring Jason Scott Lee from "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story." Lee chases bad guy Thomas Ian Griffith through time as the two try desparately to kill one-another. There is a lot of time travel in the 80 minutes this film provides, but not much plot. The action and fight scenes are very well done and the special effects are sure to please, but the viewer is left with very little after this experience. Maybe if the writers would've shelled out a good story, the film may be even more enjoyable.
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Summary: Suprisingly good
Review: Although I believe this was a straight to video release, it really doesn't look it. The special effects are good, and the film quality is also top notch. It's been quite a few years since I saw the original timecop, but I'm sure that this one is exponentially better. Jason Scott Lee is great as the hero of the film, combining humor, drama, and martial arts.Basically, there are those who believe that if it were possible to travel back in time, and change things for the better, then it should be done, regardless of what changes may occur in the present. If you could go back in time and kill hitler before the world war, would you? That is the premise in this film. It's easy to say that you shouldn't change history, unless it affects you personally. Jason Scott Lee kills the wife of the bad guy, and so the bad guy decides to travel back in time and wipe out the existance of the entire time cop agency. And so, he must be stopped. But in the end, it's surprising how exactly the bad guy is stopped. I'll leave it at that. Check it out. A good renter. It's left wide open for additional time cop films, which would be interesting to see. However, nothing is left unanswered or unfinished.
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Summary: Pretty Sad!
Review: Bad, Bad, Bad!!
I have no clue why and how these movies get made. The second installment spared us the agony of seeing Van Damme but came with its own poison. The movie tries to be extremely smart about how timelines can be contaminated by time travelers changing things in the past. However, there are more holes than Swiss cheese in this movie. All I can say is 'Stay Away!'.
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Summary: Bashful's DVD Summary #028
Review: Best: 1) It gives you a lot more to think about on the subject of timelines and paradoxes (if only to correct the film's apparent mistakes).
2) It has a "Stargate: SG1" sensibility, with the central (time) control center concept.
3) The special effects (and lighting) teams whipped up some cool visuals.
4) There's a couple of behind-the-scenes documentaries. Worst: 1) Martial arts and time travel is an unusual blend that doesn't always work. Fight scenes were inserted at times for no good reason.
2) The movie is very hard to understand if you follow every detail (but it can be fun to try).
3) The actor's didn't always seem to be trying hard to be convincing in their roles. Recommendation: As a time travel movie, this one is above average. As a sci-fi and/or action movie, it's just average. There are enough new twists on old ideas to make it interesting for casual viewing. Get this one cheaper than retail whenever possible.
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Summary: Bashful's DVD Summary #028
Review: Best: 1) It gives you a lot more to think about on the subject of timelines and paradoxes (if only to correct the film's apparent mistakes).
2) It has a "Stargate: SG1" sensibility, with the central (time) control center concept.
3) The special effects (and lighting) teams whipped up some cool visuals.
4) There's a couple of behind-the-scenes documentaries. Worst: 1) Martial arts and time travel is an unusual blend that doesn't always work. Fight scenes were inserted at times for no good reason.
2) The movie is very hard to understand if you follow every detail (but it can be fun to try).
3) The actor's didn't always seem to be trying hard to be convincing in their roles. Recommendation: As a time travel movie, this one is above average. As a sci-fi and/or action movie, it's just average. There are enough new twists on old ideas to make it interesting for casual viewing. Get this one cheaper than retail whenever possible.
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Summary: Timecop 2
Review: Cool movie, but confusing..... lots of time jumping in this one..... I hope they made some more Timecop movies....
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Summary: TIMECOP2 :Sliders Meets Terminator
Review: Director Steve Boyum took the first TIMECOP off the shelf to bring us a non-sequel, TIMECOP2. The original starred Jean Claude Van Damme in a straight time travel adventure story that was long on action and thankfully short on paradoxes. In the latter, Jason Scott Lee is the newest timecop whose duty it is to preserve the timeline. Thomas Ian Griffith is a rogue timecop who seeks to alter the past to change his present in a manner more to his liking. Any film that deals with time travel usually leads eventually to paradoxes. The various STAR TREK incarnations had many episodes on that theme. Here, Lee has to confront a plastic past that gets more slippery with each change. Lee, in 1940 in Berlin, kills the wife of rogue Griffith to prevent her from killing Adolph Hitler. It is ironic that the argument that Griffith gives for killing the Fuhrer--millions of lives need not be lost--seems more logical than maintaining the integrity of the timeline. The film boils down to two elements: a chase between Lee to stop Griffith and an ongoing debate between the two as to whose logic is more convincing. TIMECOP2 is to be commended for not allowing the puzzling aspect of time travel paradoxes to get lost in a maze of special effects, which this film surely has. But what TIMECOP2 presents is a gaudy action fx film that has just enough of a philosophical underpinning to make you think of what you just saw even as you hit the 'off' button. Only the better science fiction films do this.
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Summary: TIMECOP2 :Sliders Meets Terminator
Review: Director Steve Boyum took the first TIMECOP off the shelf to bring us a non-sequel, TIMECOP2. The original starred Jean Claude Van Damme in a straight time travel adventure story that was long on action and thankfully short on paradoxes. In the latter, Jason Scott Lee is the newest timecop whose duty it is to preserve the timeline. Thomas Ian Griffith is a rogue timecop who seeks to alter the past to change his present in a manner more to his liking. Any film that deals with time travel usually leads eventually to paradoxes. The various STAR TREK incarnations had many episodes on that theme. Here, Lee has to confront a plastic past that gets more slippery with each change. Lee, in 1940 in Berlin, kills the wife of rogue Griffith to prevent her from killing Adolph Hitler. It is ironic that the argument that Griffith gives for killing the Fuhrer--millions of lives need not be lost--seems more logical than maintaining the integrity of the timeline. The film boils down to two elements: a chase between Lee to stop Griffith and an ongoing debate between the two as to whose logic is more convincing. TIMECOP2 is to be commended for not allowing the puzzling aspect of time travel paradoxes to get lost in a maze of special effects, which this film surely has. But what TIMECOP2 presents is a gaudy action fx film that has just enough of a philosophical underpinning to make you think of what you just saw even as you hit the 'off' button. Only the better science fiction films do this.
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Summary: Awsome Story!!!!!! Bad Editing, Script and Directing
Review: I am going to have to disagree with most of the other reviews on here, by saying that it was awesome. But to do so I must use evidence, so if you haven't seen the movie I am going to tell my favorite parts, which may ruin it for you.
I rented it looking for martial arts, which was good, but 'I think' ruined by the directing and editing. If you are looking for martial arts and Jason Scott Lee "The Dragon" blows it away! Reasons to like Time Cop 2: The Berlin Decision Yes it has a bad script, editing and directing, but some of the ideas presented are very cool and have never been presented in a movie before (to my knowledge.) -When the Bad Guy from the future comes back to kill the good guy of the past so that he can stop him from killing his wife in the future, the good guy takes the bad guy from the past hostage and threatens to kill him-which would kill the bad guy of the future and stop him from killing the good guy of the past. Something I thought was very cool. -When the good and bad guy from the future disappear at the end, it was because the fight they had in front of their former selves had such a profound impact that their former selves chose a different line of work. Which means that the fight never happened but did. Weird but cool! -And even though its been done before they have the good and bad guys both fighting for a cause that the viewer can relate to. Its very "gray" as they say, and I'm still not sure who I would of sided with. They ask some questions like -if you could have killed Hitler before he started the holocaust, would you? If you did maybe someone else would step up and done even a more horrible thing, inspired by his death?
Or if you could have stopped the 9/11 bombers, would you? If you did would Airport security not be stepped up, and an even worse thing happened? This is one of those movies that kind of snowballs into a really great movie. It starts off okay and you think it's just a sequel to get the old fans back, but becomes a great movie in and of itself.
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Summary: Nice script, but bad ending....
Review: I read the reviews on this site and thought that I'd go rent the video. This one is definitely more "Sci-Fi" than TimeCop 1. This movie needed a little more background on the changes that occured, like "the war" which was not really explained until the ending text which said that it was a "US/China war".... Anyway, it shows that even if you went back in time to change major events in history that things don't necessarily become better. (for an example, see Butterfly Effect)... I thought that it was a very good movie, but the ending seemed like it had to be rushed. All of the information they give us about what will happen to all the characters just ruined it for me. If they took this screenplay and exchanged it for the one written for TimeCop 1, they would've had a much better TimeCop 1 movie. The screenplay was very interesting, but the direction was far from being as good. There were a few things that were done that didn't seem to have an impact on anything until the ending text at the end of the movie. They should've incorporated some of that into the movie and made it about 100 minutes instead of 80. The movie could've used that extra bit of time. To summarize, this movie explored things that I wished they did in TimeCop 1 (like if a TimeCop ran into the "same-matter-same-space" problem and had his existance erased including all his arrests, the following another person into the time wake, etc.) Very cool stuff, but this movie should've been directed by someone like Adam Nimoy who could've given it the direction it deserved.
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