When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a next-generation "UniSol".
With stolen top-secret technology, terrorists have created a next-generation Universal Soldier - an elite fighter genetically altered into a programmable killing machine. With this "UniSol" (Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Andrei "The Pit Bull" Arlovski) leading the way, they seize the crippled Chernobyl nuclear reactor, threatening to unleash a lethal radioactive cloud. The only one who can stop them is Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a UniSol who's been decommissioned for years. Reactivated and retrained, Deveraux must make a full-out assault on the heavily armed fortress. But inside, he'll discover not one but two of these virtually indestructible warriors. Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), Deveraux's vicious UniSol enemy from the original Universal Soldier, has been secretly reanimated and upgraded. Now, these elite fighters are locked, loaded and programmed to kill; and the fate of millions hinges on this high-action showdown.
Let me start by saying I&#39;m grading this on a sliding scale. Given that this is a straight to video action flick and the second sequel (fourth if you want to get all nit-picky about it) I thought it was extremely successful with what it set out to do.<br/><br/>Maybe it&#39;s the my expectations were so low going into it. I liked the original but I&#39;m nowhere near as fanatical as its die hard supporters. I&#39;ve forgotten almost everything about &quot;The Return&quot; except that I thought it was the worst possible direction they could steer a potential franchise in. I&#39;ve never seen the made for cable movies. Lastly, after his impressive turn in JCVD, I admit I thought this was a step backward for Van Damme.<br/><br/>But you know what? This movie is better than it has any right to be. The story is nothing spectacular (falling squarely between the original and &quot;The Return&quot; in terms of quality) but I only have one major gripe with it. I don&#39;t mind that they basically ignore the last one where Luc was completely normal again. The approach they take here makes a lot more sense and is much more interesting. The way they set him up as not being able to function on his own and having a doctor trying to reinsert him into society is pretty compelling stuff. And there&#39;s some early indications that they&#39;re going somewhere with all of it. So I was pretty disappointed when it became clear that once Luc straps his armor on, it&#39;s all action till the credits role. No character arc. No pay off for anything that came before. No indication that anything that happened to Luc prior to the climax had any impact on the overall story.<br/><br/>What really doesn&#39;t help this problem is Luc&#39;s late introduction into the film. We have no clear protagonist for the first third of the movie. No one to really care about or relate to. We&#39;re introduced to all the supporting cast and the story certainly moves forward, but there&#39;s a lack of clarity to the proceedings because there&#39;s no main character that any of this is happening to. Stuff&#39;s just happening.<br/><br/>By the time we do catch up with Luc we have minimal time to fill in the details because the clock&#39;s ticking and we only have one or two scenes before he inevitably has to be recruited for this mission. Had this story been told from Luc&#39;s POV from the get go (after the kidnapping and ransom demands were established) and had they actually given him a more defined character arc we would have an incredibly tragic hero and a film on par with the original. But honestly, after the last one and some of the other DTV action movies I&#39;ve seen I&#39;m pretty astonished they attempted to give him any character depth at all.<br/><br/>The film&#39;s biggest strength is its direction. John Hyams really elevates this material and I&#39;m dying to see what he could do with a bigger budget and more resources at his disposal. He certainly knows how to shoot action. While there is some influence from the Bourne series and even stuff like Children of Men, it&#39;s shot and choreographed in a way that&#39;s still easy to follow. You always know what&#39;s going on. From the opening car chase all the way to the final fight, it&#39;s brutal and realistic and totally cohesive for a change.<br/><br/>The performances are also pretty solid. He even got a decent one out of Dolph (and given his recent fare that&#39;s no easy task). I&#39;m not sure why the NGU got top billing but he&#39;s certainly a more formidable opponent than Goldberg. I&#39;ve read a lot of reviews complaining that Van Damme &amp; Dolph didn&#39;t team up at the end. This didn&#39;t bother me on my initial viewing but in retrospect it was a little strange having two &quot;final&quot; fights and not ever having all three of them in the same scene.<br/><br/>It&#39;s a dramatic shift in tone from the original but unlike the last sequel they use the low budget creatively and appropriately instead of making it look like it was shot in someone&#39;s garage.<br/><br/>You&#39;ve probably heard people make comparisons of the score to early John Carpenter stuff. That&#39;s not totally off base. While it&#39;s essentially just a series of drones and tribal drums, it really does work with the film. It&#39;s never distracting and the minimalistic approach really does help the desolate and dangerous feel of the movie.<br/><br/>While I still feel the movie had a giant missed opportunity with Luc&#39;s character, the fact remains that it&#39;s extremely successful at what it set out to do and while it&#39;s not going to win any awards it should be an extremely welcome addition to any fan&#39;s collection.
As a fan of the first film in 1992 i&#39;m very disappointed by what i&#39;ve seen tonight. My expectations was to see a high octane blockbuster filled with high flying acrobatics, crazy martial arts, a couple catchphrases and good storytelling. Sadly none of those 5 points met my requirements. I don&#39;t want this to sound like a rant, it is what it is:<br/><br/>There was no character development or back story to follow, that alone killed my enthusiasm. In terms of the fight sequences i didn&#39;t appreciate the whole UFC MMA style that Andrei Arlovski brought to the table. Seemed to played out, like when former WWF wrestler The Rock was in The Scorpion King and performed his finishing moves on various Egyptians. <br/><br/>Another real let down was the plot (something about teens taken hostage, a nuclear reactor and super soldier&#39;s awakening from their slumber). The director&#39;s thought process seemed to be all over the place! The saddest part was the moment of the final showdown between Jean-Claude Van Damme VS Dolph Lundgren. Not only was the fight itself sloppy, the choreography tried to encompass everything into 1 package - which clearly doesn&#39;t always work out as seen in this movie. Even the composer&#39;s score was messed up in places; with sound effects that didn&#39;t match the suspense factor of certain scenes.<br/><br/>A Summary You Ask?: low budget, don&#39;t believe the hype, nothing worth re-watching mostly pushing fast forward until i see gunshots, was good to see the two legends face to face after 17 years since their first battle but it didn&#39;t deliver. And with another sequel in the works? It doesn&#39;t look good for either actor.
Connoisseurs of straight-to-video mayhem will revel in the latest chapter of the "Universal Soldier" franchise, which manages to strike that delicate balance between over-the-top ridiculousness and well-crafted filmmaking. [28 Feb 2010, p.Q28]
Yes. &quot;Universal Soldier: Regeneration&quot; (2009) has retconned &quot;The Return&quot; to the point none of the events of the movie ever happened in the main Universal Soldier continuity. &quot;The Return&quot; is now a self-contained alternate universe.<br/><br/><ul><li>For instance, in &quot;Regeneration&quot; it is strongly hinted that Luc Deveraux never reverted to the &quot;human&quot; state, nor such process is ever possible to accomplish.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In &quot;Regeneration&quot; it is apparent Luc never had a daughter as once depicted in &quot;The Return&quot;, nor he seems able to psychologically adjust to human life again and mate as a &quot;normal&quot; people.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Even more importantly, in &quot;Regeneration&quot; it is officially stated that the N.G.U. project (&quot;The White Tower&quot;) is just the second attempt at producing UniSols, not the third one.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Finally, you can notice in &quot;The Return&quot; Luc displays white/gray streaks in his hair that are nowhere to be seen in &quot;Regeneration&quot;.</li></ul><br/><br/>Generally speaking, &quot;Regeneration&quot; totally ignores &quot;The Return&quot; and even contradicts it. Yes, but it is implied in the movie that this is a clone of Andrew Scott, not the original person. When the container he is being transported in is opened, the scientist says, &quot;We&#39;ve come a long way from regenerating sheep.&quot;
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