Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

[baumer]

Discuss

[acab]

Brutal and atmospheric. The plot is pretty thin with many unanswered questions but it has a great mood and feels like a violent dream. The fight scenes are brilliant. It's not for everybody and its flaws are pretty obvious but it's still something completely different and much more interesting than what i was expecting.

[victoriastone14]

B+

[The Stingray]

B+

Aren't you too young to be watching this?

[Crusader]

Liked the Regeneration and word is that this one's even better so I'm there B movie is my guilty pleasure

[mattmav45]

It's a testament to just how badass the violence in this film is that it warrants an above average grade despite having no real story..........and what story there is, is basically incomprehensible at that.

But seriously.......it has a dark atmosphere for an action film, and some of the action is simply fucking awesome. But the story itself is downright pathetic and ruins would could have been an all-time ultra-violent B-movie action classic. Would have been better to simply embrace the no-story and never have tried, IMO.

It's like The Raid: Redemption on steroids.........I liked the action more, but there is even less story than in The Raid.

Therefore:

C+

[luna]

[apocalypse now] and gaspar noé for sure, but the most obvious connection to me is [fight club], in using brutal alpha-male rituals to study the way in which the call for individual freedom can act as a facade for collective masculine will. of course, it's about a ton of other things as well, and to be honest it all comes together as a bit of a mess, but then again, the way the narrative keeps one as utterly clueless as the protagonist is also very interesting. the video game aesthetic works.

 

6.8/10