Review of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) by Sarfaraz A — 27 Oct 2012

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning directed by John Hyams. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins and Andrei Arlovski. The film is considered semi-sequel to Universal Soldier: Regeneration, and first in the series to be filmed in 3-D.

John (Scott Adkins) witnesses his wife and young daughter killed in home-invasion by Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), he vows to take vengeance. John is being pursued by UniSol (Andrei Arlovski). Deveraux and Andrew (Dolph Lundgren) are recruiting and motivating UniSols.

Movie is about 1hr53min long, one hour of the beginning is very slow but worth all the efforts consumed on it. I have not seen all of previous US series, but this individual film does make me curious to go back and watch them. Atmosphere is well-placed, lighting and sound-effects make it charming. I need to note down for your consideration that film arguably succeeds in sticking with music-score plus tone of seriousness. All this time, I kept contemplating, whether how the lead character face two of great action-heros Van Damme and Lundgren, while I already did assume sense-of-humor of Lundgren, however JCVD kept giving me beans of thoughts.

I feel happy to type here that, the final fight-scene between Van-Damme and Scott is way better than (very short) fight scene between Sly and Van-Damme in latest The Expendables 2. Worth checking, if you love slow-paced as well as revenge movies.