Timecop | 
| Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Jean-claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce Mcgill, Gloria Reuben
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 219882
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 078322365X
UPC: 025192004728
EAN: 9780783223650
ASIN: 078322365X
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1994
Release Date: January 20, 1998
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Pay no attention to the fact that Timecop is an insult to intelligent science fiction, and that it gradually succumbs to an acute case of the sillies. It is a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, after all, so check your brain at the door and enjoy this action flick set in the year 2004. Van Damme plays an officer in the Time Enforcement Police, assigned to prevent criminals from traveling to the past with the intent of altering the future. Ron Silver plays the evil politician who plots to retrieve a stockpile of gold from the Civil War to finance his latest campaign. The film is clever to a point, and entertaining if you can ignore the dumb jokes and inconsistencies. Best of all, it's an above-average vehicle for Van Damme (relatively speaking), who gets to kick some villainous butt and share a few scenes with Mia Sara, who plays the Timecop's wife. As Van Damme fans can tell you, this is one of the action star's better movies. --Jeff Shannon
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 Timecop June 23, 2009
Dragunov
This is the cropped or crap version. The top of there heads are cut off. I just didn't like the quality of the dvd. It was frustrating to watch. It's to bad because this is my favorite Van Damme movie.
A Step Above Most Of Van Damme Films June 2, 2009
Craig Connell (Lockport, NY USA)
I thought this was a notch above the normal no-brainer kick-boxer action flicks which star men like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Segal, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, etc. because of the interesting and somewhat complex tale with time travel as the main theme. The story also has some good twists and humor.
The special- effects - at least when this came out in the mid '90s - were very cool when the time travelers reached their destinations. The story can be a bit confusing at times but is fun, especially near the end when doubles of all the characters are on the screen at once
The only bad part of the film is the credibility, especially with Ron Silver who plays a politician. No politician, no matter what party or where, would be this much of low-life. In fact, the story is full of unlikable and untrustworthy characters, too many of them. The time travel ange of the story may be intelligent but the dialog in many parts of this movie is just plain dumb and too juvenile.
Yet, overall, this is still one of the best of a small group of well-done Van Damme movies.
P.S. I am not buying a DVD of this until Universal puts this out on widescreen, as it was filmed!
 Timecop - Science Fiction May 10, 2009
Mark T. Von Seggern (Denver, CO USA)
This one with Van Damme as a time cop. trying to catch the bad guys. Some going into the past to rob a stage coach of its money and bringing it back to the present or fixing an election then using the power of office to buy out business or twist the business in their favor for their profit. With Van Damme trying just to keep him and his wife alive and having their son born. Good Movie.
One of Van Damme's Best May 6, 2009
Raymond Carver (Baton Rouge, LA USA)
This is a fun, action-packed movie. There are some folks who can't get past Van Damme the actor and just accept him a genuine physical presence on screen. He was never a star for his broken-English-seems-like-he's-reading-the-lines-off-of-his-palm line delivery.
In Timecop Van Damme is Walker, a Time Enforcement Commission ("TEC") Agent tasked with going back in time to catch time criminals, i.e., people who travel back in time to gain some illegal advantage from their knowledge of the future. In one of the early scenes we see Walker travel back to the thirties to stop a miscreant who is planning to buy up stock for rock bottom prices that will be worth millions in the future (the movie is set in 2004).
Mia Sara is fine, if underused, as Van Damme's wife Melissa, but Ron Silver as the villanous Senator McComb really has fun with the scene chewing. The great character actor Bruce McGill makes the most out of his small part as Walker's boss, the commander of the "TEC." Add up their performances, some nice action sequences, a somewhat intelligent plot, and solid shooting by director Hyams, and you have a very satisfying popcorn flick for a rainy weekend afternoon.
However, there is one problem with Timecop. The DVD is absolutely garbage! I don't think I've ever seen it for sale in widescreen format. The film has been made available on HD DVD, but a blu-ray seems to be nowhere in sight. I hope this gets fixed soon, along with True Lies!!!
 SAVING TIME February 16, 2009
Geary A., Jones
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I actually don't mind Van Damme as an actor, and I usually love films by Hyams. This is not a credible bit of sci-fi, however, although there is enough action ( it's a Van Damme movie after all ) to get past a slightly better than run-of-the-mill script. Ron Silver, and Mia Sara do as well as they can, and the CGI work is alright, but I much preferred Van Damme in HARD TARGET. If you want time travel stuff that's crisp DOCTOR WHO in just about any incarnation trumps this story in spades.
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