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Universal Soldier: The Return

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Damning. A road-accident of a film is given better treatment than it deserves but it's not likely you'll care.

One of three unrelated, and equally unnecessary, sequels to the killer-cyborg hi-jinks of the '92 movie with which Roland Emmerich first registered on Hollywood's sonar.

This is cynical, manipulative, idiotic film-making. It's hard to express how bad this film is. Suffice to say Jean-Claude Van Damme is NOT the worst thing about it.

Reachesa peak in the so-bad-it's-funny stakes when Michael Jai White, martial-arts expert and ultimate assimilation of man and machine, declares to his stolid soldiers: "We will act without emotion". Execrable.

DVD Extras:

  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Filmographies
  • Three featurettes focusing on Van Damme and looking behind the scenes

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