Product Description

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Jason Scott Lee John Beck Run time: 81 minutes Rating: R Director: Steve Boyum

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50152 in DVD
• Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
• Released on: 2003-09-30
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 81 minutes

Customer Reviews

Suprisingly good
Although I believe this was a straight to video release, it really doesn't look it. The special effects are good, and the film quality is also top notch. It's been quite a few years since I saw the original timecop, but I'm sure that this one is exponentially better. Jason Scott Lee is great as the hero of the film, combining humor, drama, and martial arts.

Basically, there are those who believe that if it were possible to travel back in time, and change things for the better, then it should be done, regardless of what changes may occur in the present. If you could go back in time and kill hitler before the world war, would you? That is the premise in this film. It's easy to say that you shouldn't change history, unless it affects you personally.

Jason Scott Lee kills the wife of the bad guy, and so the bad guy decides to travel back in time and wipe out the existance of the entire time cop agency. And so, he must be stopped. But in the end, it's surprising how exactly the bad guy is stopped. I'll leave it at that. Check it out. A good renter.

It's left wide open for additional time cop films, which would be interesting to see. However, nothing is left unanswered or unfinished.

Better than I had expected!
Okay, I decided on this movie after a bit of apprehension. I mean, the only reasons I even considered watching it was because: 1. Jason Scott Lee is from Hawaii (like me) 2. We both went to the same high school (really!) 3. I always try to support Asian American actors, even if they don't usually get good roles.

So, with that in mind, I really wasn't expecting much. In fact, I thought it would be worse than the Van Damme original, which, although one of his better movies, was still a waste of a couple of hours of my life. I mean, straight to DVD sequel could never match a big-budget Hollywood movie, right? Well, I'm glad to say I was wrong. This is actually a pretty darned decent movie--better than the original, that's for sure.

Thomas Ian Griffith and Jason Scott Lee are both great. Their roles are complex, as there is a lot of grey area in terms of their being good and evil, but I thought they handled it well. Unfortunately, I still had some trouble seeing JSL as anything other than Bruce Lee in "Dragon," which wasn't helped by his fight scenes, where he still looks like the Dragon.

Special effects were your typical Sci-Fi Channel stuff, nothing to write home about. Costumes and sets seemed a bit forced in period scenes, so it didn't come across as very natural, but, hey, like I said, Sci-Fi Channel stuff. In general, the acting was very good, all things considered, with only a few actors coming up lame (see Tava Smiley who is hot, but couldn't act her way out of a paper bag).

The action sequences were kind of forced into the script (some of it didn't seem terribly necessary), but when it happens, JSL and TIG are great. And while JSL is great in his fight scenes, it was kind of sad to think that he'll be relegated to these kinds of roles because of his ethnicity. And while he does need some range to pull off this role, not much acting is required, and he is a better actor than this movie allows him to be. TIG, of course, is a wonderful villain...now if you could only get his role from "The Karate Kid" out of your head...

I actually enjoyed the story, as I like time travel movies, and while it can be bewildering figuring out what's going on as the characters jump back and forth in time, the main idea of the movie--If we could go back in time, should we be/are we morally obligated to right the wrongs of the past?--comes through.

If you're going to watch this expecting a Hollywood summer blockbuster movie, you will be sorely disappointed. If you love the Sci-Fi Channel, like I do, and want to watch a grade "A" b-movie, this is it! The cast is great, the story interesting and the action entertaining. Adjusted for the kind of movie it is (straight to DVD), I give it a solid four stars. A pleasant surprise and one of the best direct to video movies I've ever seen.

Nice script, but bad ending....
I read the reviews on this site and thought that I'd go rent the video. This one is definitely more "Sci-Fi" than TimeCop 1. This movie needed a little more background on the changes that occured, like "the war" which was not really explained until the ending text which said that it was a "US/China war"....

Anyway, it shows that even if you went back in time to change major events in history that things don't necessarily become better. (for an example, see Butterfly Effect)...

I thought that it was a very good movie, but the ending seemed like it had to be rushed. All of the information they give us about what will happen to all the characters just ruined it for me. If they took this screenplay and exchanged it for the one written for TimeCop 1, they would've had a much better TimeCop 1 movie. The screenplay was very interesting, but the direction was far from being as good.

There were a few things that were done that didn't seem to have an impact on anything until the ending text at the end of the movie. They should've incorporated some of that into the movie and made it about 100 minutes instead of 80. The movie could've used that extra bit of time.

To summarize, this movie explored things that I wished they did in TimeCop 1 (like if a TimeCop ran into the "same-matter-same-space" problem and had his existance erased including all his arrests, the following another person into the time wake, etc.) Very cool stuff, but this movie should've been directed by someone like Adam Nimoy who could've given it the direction it deserved.