Terrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister's 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol... Read allTerrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister's 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes in but faces 2 NGUs.Terrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister's 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes in but faces 2 NGUs.
- NGU
- (as Andrei 'The Pitbull' Arlovski)
- General Topov
- (as Zahary Baharov)
- Olga
- (as Mariana Stanisheva)
- Miles
- (as Kristopher Van Varenberg)
- Technician
- (as Franklin Vallette)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDolph Lundgren filmed his parts for the movie in just 5 days, whilst Jean-Claude Van Damme filmed for 20 days.
- Goofs(at around 13 mins) Chernobyl power station as shown as deserted. In reality, hundreds of people still work there and nuclear material is still being processed.
- Quotes
[Devereaux finds the President's children cornered by Scott]
Andrew Scott: Keep asking them questions, just... trying to get some... an answer. Nothing. Just a simple yes or no. It's ridiculous... I knew I had something to tell you. It was - it was right there, on the tip of my tongue. Shit. I'm sure I'll remember it, just... just wait right there. Something so familiar. Can't explain it. You know exactly what I'm talking about, right? You understand. You don't have to answer. We're good like that, right?
[Turns to face Luc]
Andrew Scott: We've been over this all before.
[Chuckles]
Andrew Scott: I'm just gonna do something here...
[Scott moves to kill the children and Luc attacks]
- Alternate versionsIn order to get a FSK-18 rating in Germany, the movie had to be cut by almost five minutes to remove most graphic knife shots and tone down the overall gory violence. The unrated SPIO/JK version is completely uncensored.
- ConnectionsFeatured in War Witch (2012)
A lot of people might be hesitant because of the conflicting reviews, but ignore the whole "This is bad because it has Jean Claude in it..." stigma and you might be as surprised as I was after watching it. In fact, I found myself watching it a few times again because, through and through, it's an extremely engaging film.
What actually shocked me is that it covers an important social issue of terrorism versus political tyranny; using terrorism to maintain (and gain) freedom as well as capitalist control of armies without nations. Yeah, it's a movie that actually covers something important about sociality.
As a lot of other people pointed out, though, Jean Claude and Dolph only lend their faces for brief (in Dolph's case) and extended (in Jean's case) cameos. This film is not really about the aging action heroes but rather, they play a part in the outcome of things, very similar to Snipe's role in Blade 2.
As for quality...the movie is shot to look like the Bourne Identity and even has a cool chase scene like it, too. All the action is depicted with startling realism and all fist-fights result in such because people either run out of ammo or get too close to use weapons. In other words, all the fight scenes in this movie make a heck of a lot of sense and are very realistic and practical. Added to this, the musical score is extremely fitting to the science-fiction overtones.
Overall, this movie is leaps and bounds better than every other Universal Soldier movie made before it and actually takes itself serious enough to deserve better praise than what it's been receiving.
- cyguration
- Mar 20, 2010
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- Also known as
- Universal Soldier: A New Beginning
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $844,447
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1