Amazingly enough I went into this movie thinking it would be completecrap because of JCVD and Dolph "I can't act" Ludgren, but it was muchbetter than a lot of other action movies, including Terminator:Salvation.<br><br>A lot of people might be hesitant because of the conflicting reviews,but ignore the whole "This is bad because it has Jean Claude in it..."stigma and you might be as surprised as I was after watching it. Infact, I found myself watching it a few times again because, through andthrough, it's an extremely engaging film.<br><br>What actually shocked me is that it covers an important social issue ofterrorism versus political tyranny; using terrorism to maintain (andgain) freedom as well as capitalist control of armies without nations.Yeah, it's a movie that actually covers something important aboutsociality.<br><br>As a lot of other people pointed out, though, Jean Claude and Dolphonly lend their faces for brief (in Dolph's case) and extended (inJean's case) cameos. This film is not really about the aging actionheroes but rather, they play a part in the outcome of things, verysimilar to Snipe's role in Blade 2.<br><br>As for quality...the movie is shot to look like the Bourne Identity andeven has a cool chase scene like it, too. All the action is depictedwith startling realism and all fist-fights result in such becausepeople either run out of ammo or get too close to use weapons. In otherwords, all the fight scenes in this movie make a heck of a lot of senseand are very realistic and practical. Added to this, the musical scoreis extremely fitting to the science-fiction overtones.<br><br>Overall, this movie is leaps and bounds better than every otherUniversal Soldier movie made before it and actually takes itselfserious enough to deserve better praise than what it's been receiving.
With stolen top-secret technology, terrorists have created a next-generation Universal Soldier - an elite fighter genetically altered into a programmable killing machine.