Agent Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) entdeckt, dass ausgerechnet sein Vorgesetzter, Senator McComb (Ron Silver), die Technik fr seine Zwecke nutzt: Er organisiert in der Vergangenheit berflle, um seine sptere Prsidentschaftskandidatur zu finanzieren. Max Walker, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who's intent on changing the past to control the future. Director Hyams has a long but not especially exciting connection with filmed sf, having made Capricorn One ( 1977), Outland ( 1981, his best) and 2010 ( 1984 vt 2010: The Year We Make Contact). Um Missbrauch zu verhindern, patrouillieren sogenannte Timecops zwischen den Zeiten. With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill. Timecop represents another entry into film production of a comic-book company, Mike Richardson's Dark Horse, which earlier in the same year had a fantasy hit with the joky Superhero movie The Mask ( 1994). Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben, Scott Bellis, Jason Schombing, Scott Lawrence. Timecop ( 1994) by S D Perry is the novelization. The time machine, for instance, recalls Back to the Future ( 1985). It is all diverting and proficient, with plenty of action, and the emphasis on governmental conspiracy that is a Hyams trademark, but evokes memories of other films that have done it better. The film ends in a flurry of Time Paradox, less stringently worked out than those of, say, Disaster in Time ( 1991). The source of the corrupt senator's campaign funds becomes clear. Walker is sent back to investigate 1994 and later 1929 because somebody has been sending back operatives into history to make a profit through patents, cheap stocks, etc. Ambitious presidential hopeful Senator McComb (Silver) heads the government committee that finances TEC, which has effectively become an arm of government. He plays Max Walker, whose wife (Sara) was mysteriously murdered in 1994, and who now, in 2004, is a timecop for the TEC (Time Enforcement Commission) (see Time Police). Colour.īelgian martial-arts performer Van Damme is here asked to extend his range to the requirements of a romantic lead, a not wholly convincing exercise. Cast includes Scott Bellis, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben, Mia Sara, Jason Schombing, Ron Silver and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Walker is a sympathetic character and he quickly earns. Timecop is one of JCVD's better films and it is clearly due to the script. It is also in the same time period that Walker's wife was killed. Written by Mark Verheiden from a story by Richardson and Verheiden, based on the Comics series created by Richardson and Verheiden. Together they travel back in time to investigate a time travel crime involving the Senator who has traveled back in time to advice his younger self. Executive producer Mike Richardson producers include Sam Raimi. in association with JVC Entertainment present a Signature/Renaissance/Dark Horse Entertainment Production. Sean: in van damme’s universe, it was close enough.Film ( 1994). Jen: if Ron Silver A is just fighting Ron Silver B, their molecules don’t exist in the same place at the same time at all – they’re just foxyboxing. it’s not like they were making out or anything. Sean: i guess touching was enough of an overlap to cause problems. they’d only exist in the same space if Ron Silver A’s atoms materialized in the EXACT SAME place as Ron Silver B’s, and in that case Ron Silver A would probably explode or something anyway. Start Free Trial or Sign In to see what its worth. Jen: but they DON’T exist in the same space. Timecop Jean-Claude Van Damme Photos Mia Sara, Ron Silver Movie Press Kit Sold for. He was awarded a Tony in 1988 for Best Actor for Speed-the-Plow, a satirical dissection of the American movie business. As an actor, he portrayed Henry Kissinger, Alan Dershowitz and Angelo Dundee. van damme probably did the splits to distract from this plot point. Ronald Arthur Silver (J March 15, 2009) was an American actor/activist, director, producer, and radio host. Sean: something about the same object not being able to exist in the same space. but if they exist in the same moment, why does touching even matter? if i take Timecop as gospel (and why wouldn’t i?!), then they couldn’t fight because they’d cancel each other out and cease to exist if they touched. Jen: if watching Back to the Future taught me anything, it’s that your past and future selves cannot meet, or else you destroy the universe.
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