When confronted, Atwood admits to be working for Senator McComb, who needs the funds for his upcoming presidential campaign. Ten years later, Walker is a veteran of the TEC working under Commissioner Eugene Matuzak, who sends him back to October 1929 to prevent his former partner, Lyle Atwood, from using knowledge of the future to financially benefit from the U.S. While at home with his wife Melissa, he is attacked by unknown assailants and witnesses the house explode, killing her. Police officer Max Walker has been offered a position with the TEC but is unsure whether or not to accept. The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) has been established to police the use of time travel, with Senator Aaron McComb overseeing operations and financing. The film is based on Timecop, a story created by Richardson, written by Verheiden, and drawn by Ron Randall, which appeared in the anthology comic Dark Horse Comics, published by Dark Horse Comics.īy 1994, time travel has been developed and is used for illicit purposes. Richardson also served as executive producer. Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action film directed by Peter Hyams and co-written by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. ( Nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay at this site’s Best of 1994 Awards).Timecop DVD 1994 Időzsaru / Directed by Peter Hyams / Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Gloria Reuben UPC 5999544244306 MADE IN HUNGARY REGION 2 PAL DVD Audio: English 2.0, Hungarian 5.1 A film sequel was later made as the video-released Timecop: The Berlin Decision (2003) starring Jason Scott Lee. The series was okay but was cancelled in mid-season due to schizophrenic scheduling. The film was spun out into a short-lived tv series Timecop (1997-8), starring T.W. He also produced the appealing Famous Monsters team-up The Monster Squad (1987). Timecop was directed by Peter Hyams who has a strong association with genre with the likes of Capricorn One (1978) about a faked Mars mission Outland (1981), an action film set on Jupiter’s moon Io the 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) sequel 2010 (1984) Stay Tuned (1992) about people trapped in a Hell of tv shows the monster movie The Relic (1997) the Biblical End Times action film End of Days (1999) and the Ray Bradbury adaptation A Sound of Thunder (2005) about dinosaurs and time travel. Ron Silver, as always, plays well, doing a good variation on his frequently wheeled out yuppie villain characterisation. (In the quibbles department, one kept wondering what happened to the high-speed vehicles and all the excess velocity that suddenly vanished when people went through the time barrier). Screenwriter Mark Verheiden, a comic-book writer who also wrote same holiday season’s The Mask (1994) and later a producer/writer on tv’s excellent revival of Battlestar Galactica (2003-9) and a number of other shows including Smallville (2001-11), Heroes (2006-10), Constantine (2015) and Daredevil (2015-8), makes the script work exceedingly well and exceedingly consistently. Jean-Claude Van Damme as timecop Max Walker The most effective of these are those that centre around the time editing, like when Jean-Claude Van Damme returns from the past to find the TEC operation all but disbanded, his best friend not knowing him, McComb ahead in the Senatorial race and there no record of his fellow agent and, most intriguingly, the ending where Van Damme returns home to his wife and a son, to a life of ten years that he has never lived. The plot has an ingenious number of twists. ![]() In fact, the script did not need to be sold as an action vehicle – although one supposes that that is the way films have to be promoted these days. ![]() The film has its requisite level of martial arts punch-ups but the action element never gets in the way of the sharp and intelligent script. And, although Jean-Claude Van Damme and the word acting should never be used in the same sentence, Timecop perhaps comes the closest he has come to doing so yet. In some places, Timecop was being billed as Jean-Claude Van Damme’s first stab at serious acting. To some surprise, Timecop is more than that – in fact, one might say it is for Jean-Claude Van Damme what The Terminator (1984) was for Arnold Schwarzenegger, allowing the action star to immerse his persona inside a tightly plotted vehicle. Perhaps it was the Jean-Cluade Van Damme name above the title on the poster but one went into Timecop with little in the way of expectations, assuming that it would merely be a mindless action vehicle that involved Van Damme throwing his feet about in previous historical eras.
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