Review of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012) by Jennifer R — 12 Feb 2017

So I got suckered by the oldest trick in the low-budget film marketing game. I saw Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren top billed and all over the poster, but they are barely supporting characters who are hardly in the movie until the very end.

What the film is really about is Scott Adkins having his family killed by masked Universal Soldiers and he then spends the rest of the film seeking his revenge. Despite the bait and switch on who the stars of the film are, the action was surprisingly good for a low budget action film, particularly the fight sequences.

It also helped that there was pretty much wall-to-wall action, which is enough to hold action film fans interest, though I'm not sure the action/sci-fi/horror revenge story is enough to hold non-action fan's attention, but I do think the story was a bit more of a head-trip than I'd expected for a direct-to-video, past-their-prime action star flick.