Review of Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2010) by Iain M — 02 Feb 2010

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren come back on the big screen together for the first time since the 1992 original and it's been well worth the wait.

Van Damme returns as "retired" Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux, who is struggling to adapt to life among humans, and is quickly brought to Boone Industries to help the military stop an Eastern European terrorist group from setting off a bomb in the disused Chernobyl power plant that will unleash a powerful radioactive cloud on the world. Most of the screen time is given to the main villain of the story, a Next Generation UniSol (or NGU) played by UFC wrestler Andrei Arlovski, who carries out orders for the terrorists to ensure their plot to kidnap a Prime Minister's children and demand that political prisoners are released within 72 hours.

The first half of the movie is quite slow, but when the time comes for Deveraux to go into action, the movie really lights up and comes to life with a huge bang.

Sadly only being released straight to DVD, this movie really does put cinematic action flops like Die Hard 4 and the last 2 Terminator movies to shame.