As far as 80s action flicks go, this is a pretty good one. It’s only a timeological oddity that it actually hit the theaters in 1994, because Timecops fuck all the timeloops up. It’s a ripple effect. They explain it in the movie. Poorly. But that’s really irrelevant, because, well, TIMECOPS!
I assume we are dealing with Mallcop Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme), he’s is lookin’ to upgrade his job situation for a happier homelife with the missus. But the newly created Government Agency he joins up with does have a bits of fuckeries goings on with some traveling and maybe through time, and, well, the updated state of his relationship allows him to pursue it to the utmost. It involves a lot of ass-kicking, punching, thrashing, and occasional deployment of the male splits. Because it’s Jean-Claude Van Damme. That’s just how he rolls, bitches.
For a movie that involves Timecops, it’s a bit lighter on the paradoxes and heavier on the action. Early CGI is somewhat cheese, but it utilizes its plottening to involve as much fighting, shooting and blowings up as it can while still stringing along a basic plot with that cute chick Mia Sara from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. And Joel Silver doing his best evil Al Pacino. Always will he be Temu Al Pacino. Poor guy. At least he’s in a fun-enough action flick here.
