-¿A menudo contemplas la complejidad de tu vida?
Andrew Scott /Dolph Lundgren
Hace unos años Van Damme se comprometió con el productor Moshe Diamant a protagonizar un filme llamado provisionalmente The Smashing Machine, una cinta sobre la vida del luchador de UFC Mark Kerr que ya fue retratada en el maravilloso documental del mismo nombre (The Smashing Machine, 2002) filmado con Masters by John Hyams, the son of Peter Hyams who is the director of classics like Outland (Outland, 1981) or Capricorn 1 (Capricorn One, 1977) and vehicles for the showcasing of Van Damme as Time Cop (Time Cop, 1994) and Sudden Death (Sudden Death, 1995).
For these things in life, Jean-Claude left the project, which did not sit well with Moshe, who had worked with him in great films like White People (Hard Target, 1993) and Challenge death (Until Death, 1997), so arose sue him for breach of contract.
But Moshe changed his mind when his hands fell on rights character in the film by Roland Emmerich, Universal Soldier (Universal Soldier, 1992) and Belgium proposed to bury the hatchet in exchange for appearing in a third film on the UniSols (or sixth if you count the fucking shit tele film version Matt Battaglia's protagonist), an offer that Van Damme had rejected for years after the disastrous both artistic and economic results of the gruesome Universal Soldier 2: The Return (Universal Soldier: The Return, 1999).
Due to contractual pressures and despite the reluctance in joining the project, our favorite Belgian had no choice but confirm their participation for only 20 days in a film that seemed to point to tragedy, since neither had much of a budget, just $ 14 million when Universal Soldier 2: the return and cost $ 20 million 10 years ago, and no more stars with a reputation to sell the film that he and the special participation of Dolph Lundgren, who convinced producers for a week of shooting in what initially seemed a cameo face was promoted as a film, which was obviously intended to any corner of the video store and make pasta in its sale to cable television.
Hete here all ready to calico Fellows who directed Simon, author of Challenge to death, an interesting movie, yes, but more by the effort of interpretation of Van Damme and the change of recording your script atypical (a mixture of corrupt Lieutenant Ferrara and Hard to Kill Steven Seagal) that the technical work of the director behind the camera.
But something changed along the way, and Fellow of the project was dropped, then entering John Hyams, author of documentaries such as the aforementioned Smashing Machie and Rank (Rank, 2006; on the world of rodeos).
With the advent of Hyams Jr, his father Peter also joined the production and also agreed to serve as director of photography for his son's film, which does nothing but benefit the (great and atypical) final results.
And at this point is when true to its origins Hyams decides to return to adding a touch documentary film, and film showing in great detail and realism than all the action scenes. I say all, whether it appears as if Van Damme, explaining the history of visual form, stopping every shot, every punch or blow, and relegating the word to the background, conscious of the limitations of the script with the working and the availability of its actors and scenarios.
For example, after the terrorist take Chernobyl, the U.S. sent a group of four UniSols on a rescue mission which obviously will fail until the arrival of Luc Deveraux (Van Damme) who is retired in the ass in the world.
Any other director would have cleared the transaction without much circumspection, because the public is aware of how it will all end, however Hyams takes 18 minutes to show in great detail the operation and how they are being exterminated one by one the members of formidable squad at the hands of NGU (the fighter Andrei Arlovski), without skimping on blood and violence, filmed in a masterful way with four drives, a single scenario and real specialists who know how to fight extreme move and executing each key (real) we see on screen (attention to that uppercut perfectly executed by Andrei Arlovski at a time when the film).
And although the argument is telegraph to the utmost, you know, bad terrorists take hostages and the only one who can go is the hero of the flying kick (damn, has been giving the same kick 20 years) there are points sufficient to maintain the interest of moments where the director is showing us no stabbings, necks parties or types through a brick wall.
The first is the character of Van Damme, remote and visibly damaged by the consequences of engaging in violence (see the sequence of the restaurant with the doctor, a reference to the first part where he fought with the parishioners of a road bareto) and its subsequent capture by the army to shoot to stop and turn back into a killing machine with sad eyes, far from his role in Universal Soldier bienquedante 1 and 2.
The second of course, Dolph Lundgren, an actor that the protagonists will remain large, as demonstrated this past year in Command Performance (Command Performance, 2009) but the villains overboard (in fact has Stallone joined the cast of charismatic Expendables as smug.)
His appearance in the film, tentatively scheduled as a mere cameo becomes anthology (the resolution of his fight with Van Damme is general applause) and also adds an extra dimension to the film, in the form of suspicion is highlighted in the plan that closes the film and not desvelaré helps to highlight the possibility that ambiguous Deveraux Andrew Scott is also a clone and not the same character in the first part, both with the terrible fate meet again and again in each of the world's armed conflicts, like your soul could rest in peace, condemned to a perpetual war.
In fact both characters, said in separate occasions and recall, giving to understand that drag the painful experiences of embodiments earlier, "Remember what I told you, I asked Scott to Luc in reference to the beginning of the first installment of Universal Soldier where he let go," You're just like the others just want to run as if all this shit had not happened "for That does not surprise me at all the plane flight back from the end of Van Damme after his confrontation with NGU.
a tortured (and splendid) Lundgren travels the film as Blade Runner Roy Batty (Blade Runner, 1982), allowing even kill the doctor who has returned to life as she asks are you happy? in the same way that Rutger Hauer kills the owner of the Tyrell Corporation, sticking their fingers in their eyes and bursting his skull, not to mention in addition to submitting to test the UniSols, reminiscent Kempff Voight test of the iconic and influential film from Ridley Scott.
But the best comes last, when he finally takes action Deveraux, Hyans gives us a masterclass in film economy, with a brutal sense of timing, inherited from other action films like Black Haw semi documentary Down (Black Hawk Down, 2001) or The Bourne Supremacy (The Bourne Supremacy, 2004), parade across the screen explosions and gunfire visibly influenced by the way you view the action of artistic products as the saga Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, knife fights and wanted to Steven Seagal for himself, and to a plane of pure action sequence, reminiscent of the famous sequence in the hospital Hervidero (Lat sau san taam, 1992), sequence shot by Indeed, it is the first filmed Van Damme in his career, if we do not as such the plane (fictional) that opened JCVD \u200b\u200b(JCVD, 2008).
is possible that some think I'm exaggerating, or trying to claim a film that can not be saved, to those I propose something, ask yourself a DVD copy of the movie, and watch television attentively and persecution that opens the film, majestic is the only word that can define it.
only shudder to think what a guy as talented as John Hyans could do with $ 40 million and script of truth, since this film has demonstrated its capacity to raise their aspirations beyond a film series B had everything against.
The premiere is scheduled for direct to DVD in February, but even if it deserved a small display in theaters.
Seriously.
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