Jeanan-Class Van Damme made a lot of moviesAnd many of them are ... not great. But then there are a few gems in the action packed with Van Damme's action. I'm sure everyone has their own favorite, and mine is "Timecop", a pleasantly funny funny action face of Peter Himes (A potential remake was released back in 2014, but fortunately). I mean, above all, the movie is called "Timecop"It is difficult to resist a film with such a title, especially when the film itself delivers exactly what is being advertised: a police officer traveling through time.

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Timecop was based on a comic book series, but since I have never read it, I will not comment. Instead, I'll talk about the film, which now has a new release of 4K from the good people at the Shout factory. I had to review the film about this new release of 4K, which led me to the original theater overview of the film by the legendary Roger Ebert. Reading this review, in turn, leads to something surprising: a direct, seemingly impossible connection to a completely different travel movie.

But I will get to that right now.

Set in the distant future of 2004 (!), "Timecop" introduces us to a world in which there is time travel. As is the case with most movies during travel, there are some rules. During many Fun a landfill for an exhibition at the beginning of the movie (delivered expert by actor Scott Lawrence), we learn that you can travel back Over time in the past but you can't travel forward In the future, because the future has not yet happened. Of course, this immediately causes a paradox: if you travel back in time, how can you travel back to the future, aka your present, if you are can't Travel forward?

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Answer: It doesn't matter. Timecop does not deal with logic. He just wants to use his big, stupid premise and have fun. And it does. Van Damme is played by Max Walker, a police officer working for the Time Implementation Commission, who is tasked with traveling with police time. You see, if there is a journey through time, some bad actors are thought to try to use it for unusual ways. The punishment for that is extreme: Anyone who catches the fusion with time is sentenced to death.

Max's wife, Melissa (Mia Sarah), was killed a few years ago, so I bet you can guess where things are going: Max will eventually use time travel to save Melissa's life. But first he has to deal with the wonderful evil Senator Aaron McComb, playing delicious forest from the late Ron Silver. McComb plans to use time travel for both of you to get rich And Become President of the United States. A wicked president?! Talk about far -reaching!

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For the first time I saw Timecop when I hit VHS (I'm old) as early as the mid-90s, and I was a fan, in a way that adolescent boys are fans of movies with lots of hits and kicks and shooting. Re -sightseeing of the film now in 4K, I remain a fan, though I can see how silly the movie is. But it's not a knocking against Timecop - indeed, stupidity makes the movie more enjoyable.

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Nothing here really makes sense. TEC is everything for maintaining the existing timeline and not interfering in the past, and yet the very act of sending Max back in time to do things on Timecop's, of course, interfere with the past. Early in the film, Max headed in the 20s of the last century and deals with a great fight with his former partner, who went hostile to manipulate the stock market. Many things are rising and the bad man is literally thrown from the building to his death. Of course it seems that this event is, by default, to change the past! Isn't that a problem?

Or, as for this. To travel back in time, Max must get into a car sitting on a railway, kind of driving with an amusement park. The vehicle is then launched on the runway and eventually sends Max back in time. At the end of the runway is a large brick brick, and we have been said that if the time machine is not working, the vehicle will be slammed in that brick brick and kill the passenger - it happened earlier. But Why to set the Wallid from the brick there to start? You can easily avoid this danger! On top of that, whenever Max travels back in time, the little trip with the time of the journey he took out; He just appears in the past. Then, when Max returns to the future (aka his present), he does so through the car. How? Again: it doesn't matter. All that matters is that we have to see Van Damme do a few separations and kill some bad guys.

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As I mentioned above, taking "Timecop" leads me to Roger Ebert's film review, released back in 1994. Whenever I watch or review an older film, I usually look for Ebert's review - Ebert was one of the best I ever did, and I appreciate his insight and wisdom (something that is deeply missing in our current landscape for reviewing the film).

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Ebert gave the Timecop 2 Starswoles of 4, which was fair. But that was the final passage of Ebert's review that really caught my attention. Ebert compares Timecop to another well -known franchise of science during travel: "Terminator". While closing his review, he writes:

"It's not so much that the premise of the original" terminator "is torn, as that Hollywood has entered the past and unintentionally torn the fabric of time, so we got" Timecop "with Van Damme instead of" Terminator 3: Machine picking "with Schwarzenegger. You see what can happen. "

Here, I made a double download. Ebert speaks of a hypothetical third film "Terminator", which he (joke) calls "Growth of Machines". But of course, "Terminator 3" (AKA The third best movie "Terminator") will eventually be done - and when it was really called "Terminator 3: Picking the machines." But here's something: that movie didn't come out until 2003, almost a decade after Ebert's Timecop's view. Some quick research indicates Early Script for Terminator 3 Titran "Picking Machines" appeared in 1997but it's a few more years After Review of Ebert's Timecop.

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In other words, Roger Ebert somehow predicted the title of "Terminator 3." Is this a coincidence? Or, Ebert somehow traveled through time, just like Van Damme's Max, and learned the truth? Of course, we all know that it is impossible - Ebert would have to travel to the future, and as we taught us "Timecop", that could not happen.

Here you can buy Timecop at 4K.