Universal Soldier Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
The ultimate weapons of the future have just declared war... on each other.
The future has a bad attitude.
Almost human...Almost perfect...Almost under control.
Robots runs amok
Genetically enhanced machines.
An elite team of soldiers has been used against terrorists where they use astounding physical capabilities to overcome them. Victoria, a reporter, follows them and discovers a part of their secret. When one of the team kills her cameraman she tries to escape. Luc, one of the soldiers begins to have flashbacks and turns sides and helps her as the remainder of the team follows to protect their secrets.
| Jean-Claude Van Damme | Luc Deveraux/GR44 |
| Dolph Lundgren | Andrew Scott/GR13 |
| Ally Walker | Veronica Roberts |
| Ed O'Ross | Colonel Perry |
| Jerry Orbach | Dr. Christopher Gregor |
| Leon Rippy | Woodward |
| Tico Wells | Garth |
| Ralf Moeller | GR76 |
| Robert Trebor | Motel Owner |
| Gene Davis | Lieutenant |
| Drew Snyder | Charles |
| Tommy 'Tiny' Lister | GR55 |
| Simon Rhee | GR61 |
| Eric Norris | GR86 |
| Michael Winther | Technician |
| Roland Emmerich |
5.40 out of 10 (13076 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Universal silly story!
posted on 10 Aug 2009"Universal Soldier" has one point of curiosity: Van Damme and Lundgren, action films standouts, working together. So, even if you're not an action film fan you will be curious to see the result of this explosive encounter. But that's only the remarkable point here because the movie is just a sucession of violent scenes, shallow dialogue and even the possible chemistry between the two leads doesn't clik. The special effects are good for a movie of medium budget like this one and the premise of the plot is interesting although not well developed. I give this a four (4).
Excellent!
posted on 05 Jul 2009Universal Soldier is a superb action film that stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren plus Ally Walker,Ed O'Ross,Ralph Moeller,Tiny Lister jr.(Zeus),Jerry Orbach,and none other than Thomas Rosales jr. and yes you guest it,He gets killed in this film too!Universal Soldier is quite an epic film and is arguably Van Damme's best!I laugh every time when ever Lundgren speaks because his lines are dang funny and he says them well!I like Ally Walker as she is a very good actress and a beautiful woman!This is the best of the Universal Soldier films and is a great experience to watch for action fans!
An Underrated Action Classic
posted on 17 Jun 2009It's quite underrated here and in general movie opinion. It's got all the excellent action requirements; off-your-seat fast-paced scenes, some blood, some humor and good screen-play. As far as the acting is; well it is quite poor. Van Damme is in it, so what do you expect? Besides that, Its got quite an intelligent script behind all the cameras, and they executed right in the movie. The average Van Damme fan will like this movie, as we get to again see his full-filled material arts and some of his un-funny, funny humor: if that makes any sense. In general it's an underrated action classic that began to set-foot in Van Damme's acting career.
A good Action movie.
posted on 05 Jun 2009Universal Soldier is a solid Action movie. It has all the desirable elements, a decent story line, violence that isn't overly gruesome, some hot bodies and some good acting.I enjoyed this movie immensely and recommend it to everyone as long as they don't mind a little violence.
Something borrowed
posted on 24 May 2009Roland Emmerich has borrowed from several films (including "The Terminator" and "Robocop") to create this new action vehicle for Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. The two are 'Universal Soldiers', unstoppable combat soldiers used in top secret military special operations. Only there is one problem, they're not completely controllable.This is a routine action flick, so none of the action sequences are particularly inspired. It is for the most part fairly entertaining though, even if it's very light, and the occasional humour, which is indeed quite good, helps proceedings nicely. Not too bad.Monday, September 28, 1992 - Hoyts Cinema Centre
A vietnam vet who died in action is brought back as a UNIVERSAL SOLDIER.
posted on 15 Apr 2009This movie was the best! All I can say is that it came out at the wrong time, America wasn't ready for it in '92. If they were to rerelease it, I think it would do so much better in theatres and movie stores. Not to mention Ally Walker, goddess of all things was in it! There are some great scenes between Walker and Van Dame. Must see!
Two minutes in and the two lead 'characters' are dead. Sadly this doesn't last.
posted on 12 Apr 2009Health warning. If you read the following plot very quickly it might make sense. But it should be treated like quicksand. If you stop you'll be drawn down into the murky depths of idiocy. Now take a deep breath...The ever-devious US military has been collecting the still-warm corpses of its own Vietnam dead and then re-animating them with super powers (which any mad scientist would tell you is never a good idea). By injecting these zombies with some glow in the dark goo they conveniently forget everything and can be unleashed to defend freedom, democracy and bad plots everywhere. Jean Claude van Damme plays the hero who has to save a plucky reporter (Ally Walker) from the attentions of the US military and a rogue colleague played by Dolph Lundgren. After an interminable series of chases it all ends up as a nasty zombie versus zombie versus combine harvester fight.You can breathe again now.If you hadn't guessed, they passed on the original title of 'Zombie Commandos From Hell' and called them Universal Soldiers - a title so unwieldy that they are referred to throughout as Unisols.Unisol? That isn't very scary; it sounds more like a haemorrhoid preparation. Which might just come in handy.If it had been a B-feature made on a tiny budget 'Universal Soldier' could have been played for fun. With a witty script and some sly in-jokes the whole thing could have become a camp classic. Unfortunately it is an incredibly po-faced film with no sense of humour - about itself or its cast. And it is dumb - even for an action movie. No care has been taken with basic plot development or continuity.Our top-secret stealthy commandos go round in a special plane and an even more distinctive truck (one that comes with Transformer-style pop-up sections and a dry-ice machine). Had they painted it green with flowers on the side and named it the Mystery Mobile they couldn't be more obvious. Each Unisol comes with a heads-up camera that appears to show the world through the exciting new medium of Teletext. Despite their super-powers they are sensitive to heat, so they are deployed to a desert wearing padded jackets (Sadly, this does give Jean Claude van Damme the perfect excuse to take his clothes off - again). When Unisols move, they stagger around like the Addams Family butler (and have you noticed how Dolph Lundgren and Lurch could have been separated at birth?), yet underwater they can swim faster than a man can run - AND NOT GET THEIR CLOTHES WET! Incredible stuff!Worst of all, there is a plot hole that is so obvious it is incredible no one noticed during production. Our heroes are trapped at a petrol station, the Unisol truck drives up, EVERYONE gets out of the truck and starts looking for them. Do our heroes (a) get into the cab of the truck and drive off leaving their enemies safely behind, or (b) go into the back of the Mystery Mobile and start looking for clues?Hint: don't choose (a).'Universal Soldier' is the freakish result of some genetically engineered script writing. A demonic plan was unleashed to graft the undemanding half of 'Frankenstein' to an even less-demanding part of 'Terminator', all Carolco needed were two suitable leads to play the walking dead. They picked Jean-Claude van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. With the exception of the remarkable height difference between the two leads (and we are talking about at least a foot!) this has to be perfect casting.Unfortunately dream casting can't help a fatally flawed movie. It is a sad fact that it is very difficult to make zombie characters interesting; without any common reference the audience has no emotional involvement with the story. Zombies have largely been restricted to shambling around the woods chewing on teenagers; perhaps wisely no one has seriously considered them starring in a period piece opposite Kate Winslet or a romantic comedy with Meg Ryan ('When Harry Ate Sally' anyone?).There are two ways to make such characters interesting. One is to give them a tiny facet of humanity - the scene in Frankenstein where he meets the blind man, or the relationship between the Terminator and the child John Conner show how this can be pulled off successfully. The second is to play them as ruthless machines, bent on destruction (Terminator first time round).There is none of that in this movie, and it manages to miss both solutions. The attempted relationship between the newly human van Damme and Ally Walker is undermined by having him suddenly regain all his memories and playing the part of a normal human being with a Pinnochio complex. The man-child role is a challenging one for skilled actors, in the hands of someone less talented it is embarrassing. Want to guess what it is here?The second part is undermined by not keeping the bad guy as an unthinking machine. Lundgren's character suddenly regains his psychotic personality. This is clearly someone suffering from a medical problem, not the usual two-dimensional movie killer. A clever plot (think Frankenstein (the book)) might want to try and resolve the problem by playing on the human part of the character; a bad plot would have him kicked to death and chopped to pieces. Want to guess again?The second problem is the casting. Obviously Carolco couldn't afford the salaries demanded by Schwarzenegger and Stallone, so they had to pick from the B-squad, and it shows. van Damme rolls through this movie on the twin charms of having puppy dog eyes and showing his backside. Lundgren emotes his role with all the charm of a run-down Speak and Spell machine. (Which is odd, because when I've seen Dolph Lundgren interviewed he's witty and charming; but put him in front of the movie camera and you're wondering if someone has forgotten to flick the 'ON' switch).Individually they are painful to watch; together - excruciating.It's not a complete loss on the performance front; if you watch very carefully you'll see that Ally Walker is in fact acting (and stands out a mile for doing so). Her lines are ludicrous, her character is painfully underdeveloped but Walker does a reasonable job of trying to play a halfway-realistic character. Sadly what starts off as an independent, successful woman is quickly reduced to bimbette status screaming on the sidelines. So much for feminism.Is there anything else to recommend this movie. No, not really, there is a neat abseiling stunt near the beginning and lots of stuff blows up, but for the first time in my life I would have to admit that not nearly enough stuff blows up.Universal Soldier's greatest contribution to movie history has to be that it helped sink Carolco. Cinema audiences stayed away in droves from this charmless production and it is perhaps best remembered for the desperate publicity 'fight' between Lundgren and van Damme at Cannes. The franchise spawned some sequels with ever decreasing budgets. The directors, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin went on to make two even worse, but somehow more successful movies - 'Stargate' and 'Independence Day'. The two leads descended to the bottom shelf of your local video store never to return. Ally Walker sadly vanished from our screens and you still can't buy cans of Unisol.'Universal Soldier' is best watched on a long cold winter's night when you don't want to go to bed and there is nothing else on television.But then again, have you considered taking up astronomy?
Born Universal Action !!
posted on 04 Mar 2009Earlier comment by some IMDb member:"Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren star as two soldiers that were actually killed in Vietnam but are kept alive by the U.S. military and regenerated to become types of super soldiers. It is as dumb as it sounds. Anyway Lundgren starts to create havoc all over the desert and it is up to Van Damme to stop him in this laughable action film that looks cheap and rushed. The screenplay is corny and the direction is near non-existent. 2 stars out of 5."And my reply: Where have you been living mate. The movie is from 1992 and Roland didn't make any cheap ass movie like you are assuming. For all of you, this is pure action like you are used to get from Van Damme and Lundgren.8/10 Superb.
Admit it – you enjoyed it.
posted on 02 Feb 2009Okay, okay: it's as macho as hell, questionably acted, pretty brutal and not particularly imaginative. But it has faith in itself. Please don't think I mean to give this B-movie any real grandeur, but it does know how to get the blood pumping. If the action sequences are nothing new (cribbed from Arnie and Mad Max flicks), it pushes them home with a relentless logic, and the production values are fine.There is an element of self-parody, thanks largely to Lundgren's engagingly OTT psychotic turn (he's the best of the bunch) and the film-makers have enough nouse to make JVCD rely on his ability to kick the life out of everyone.Plot means nothing, the film is nasty, the semi-moral/sentimental tone that descends towards the end is pretty offensive and it's derivative.But admit it - you enjoyed it. Hell, I thought it was a laugh.
Doesnt get any better than this..
posted on 10 Dec 2008Are you an action fan? If so, then this is the movie for you. Not the best actors around, but good enough, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren do deliver the goods with this movie. Van Damme(at the top of his game in this) plays Luc, a Vietnam veteran brought back to life by a secret service to become one of many Universal Soldiers(UniSols). Dolph Lundgren plays Andrew Scott, a Sargeant in Nam who is also brought back to life to become a UniSol. Both men start to have flashbacks of there brutal deaths, which were at the hands of eachother. From here on its an all out two man war waged between Van Damme and Dolph. Van Damme does a good job at making you root him on and Dolph does an excellent job at being a villain, his charachter has lost it..this was Dolph's best movie and could have possibly been Van Damme's best too. A good action movie with all the ingrediants.
Super Soldiers of the future – set in far off 1993!!
posted on 07 Dec 2008Universal Soldier starts out in 1968 with Van Damme playing the good guy, standing up for some innocent Vietnamese people in a village during the war. Dolph Lundgren plays an embittered American soldier, consumed with anger about his fellow soldiers who have been killed in the war, and intent on taking it out on any Vietnamese people he can find. Luc (Van Damme) insists that the village has been cleared and those people have done nothing wrong, and the ensuing conflict leads to both of them killing each other before the opening credits are even over. The dead soldiers are declared M.I.A., not because their having killed each other would be a little difficult to explain, but because they are needed for a new kind of military technology.Now here's where I get a little lost. We cut to the "Present Day Nevada Desert," 25 years later. You'll notice that 25 years after 1968 you'll find 1993, the year after this movie was released. I supposed the original audiences were left in complete terror about what was going to take place around the following Spring. The rest of us may wonder why the movie markets itself as being a story about futuristic military technology, when it takes place about 5-6 months after the release date.At any rate, we are immediately taken to a tense hostage situation that is taking place, if I'm not mistaken, on the Hoover Dam, so that the new cyborg-soldiers could be put to the test (a full quarter of a century after they were made). Truly they are impressive pieces of machinery (or whatever they are), and the situation is soon under control. The local news outlets gleefully report that the situation has been taken care of, and with "no casualties or injuries." Maybe they forgot about the dozen or so innocent people that had been machine gunned right there in the middle of the road in broad daylight. Or maybe they just don't count.The movie plays around a lot with what Luc and Andrew Scott (Lundgren) have become. There's a scene where, after Luc begins having flashbacks of Vietnam and escapes with an attractive reporter (who was fired for being late to the scene), he walks outside naked as the day he was born, explaining that he's hot. You see, one of the symptoms of the new soldiers is that their body temperature runs hot, so they have to sleep in refrigerated compartments to avoid overheating. Soon after that, they are discovered, so Luc (now named GR-44) asks Veronica, the reporter, to examine his naked, chiseled body and look for where they have hidden the tracking device. "Look for something unusual," he tells her. "Something hard." Clearly, the ideas lifted by the boatload from the Terminator movies need not be named. I have only room for 1,000 words here, and to list the borrowed ideas would take more than that. But even though there are literally scenes lifted directly from the Terminators (like the café scene where GR-44 casually beats the crap out of everyone in sight), the movie never feels like a rip-off. Maybe that's because, for all the bad rap he gets, Van Damme has a definite, undeniable on screen charm. At one point, not long after they've met, Veronica asks him where he's from. "I figured you gotta be French or something," she says, "because of your accent." "What accent?" he asks. He seems genuinely confused. The movie sort of descends into routine action clichés by the time GR's 13 (Lundgren) and 44 start having flashbacks, and start to remember that they killed each other and hence have unfinished business. It seems that they revert to the emotion that they had at the time they died, so GR-13 wants vengeance of anyone within shooting distance, while GR-44 just wants to go home. Thus we get the government-made super-soldiers trying to kill each other. This leads to a half amusing and half disturbing scene where GR-13 terrorizes some astonished civilians in a supermarket (while another GR mindlessly gnaws on a raw steak), and then ultimately to the obligatory final showdown.I found the "explanation" for the transformation particularly interesting. I feel like, in science fiction movies, how the 'fiction' is explained is where most of the creativity lies. Sadly, there's not much here. A scientist explains to Veronica how it all worked. "By hyper-accelerating the bodies, we discovered that we could turn dead flesh into living tissue." Hyper-accelerating? Is that how they got the soldiers to age super-slow? Or not at all, and for 25 years? Sadly, we may never know. When Veronica replies, "What are you saying, doctor?" there is a knock at the door, so he doesn't really have time to explain. Too bad.There's not much to be said about the ending. It's the worst part of the movie, by far. An enormous copout the likes of which is rarely seen even in bad b-movies. But I should also mention that the movie is not as bad as the ending, or even as bad as many people say. It's not a science fiction classic, but it's a fun action popcorn movie, like many of Van Damme's films. If nothing else, the movie teaches us a valuable lesson - don't throw a beer can at a man wearing a necklace made out of human ears.Note: At the Cannes Film Festival when Universal Soldier was released, Van Damme and Lundgren got into an argument and then a shoving match right there on the red carpet in front of the world's cameras (you can check it out on YouTube). Many lament that we may never know if it was real or just a publicity stunt. It definitely looked real to me, but if it wasn't, then all the mystery around it must mean that they really CAN act!
Dumb fun.
posted on 28 Jul 2008"Universal Soldier" plays like a low-rent version of "Terminator 2", and it's a fun film, if your expectations aren't too high. The script is both dumb and relentlessly predictable, but it does give Van Damme a few good lines. Lundgren may be an untalented actor, but he has an terrifying physical presence, and the movie makes good use of it. Their final showdown is dynamic, if unclear at times. An OK pic.
Absolutely Amazing!!
posted on 01 Jun 2008This is quite possible the best movie I have ever seen! Dolph Lundgren is an action god in my books! There's no words I can find in the English dictionary to help me describe how amazing this film is. It combines great acting (mostly on Dolph's part), with excellent fight scenes. The thing that will be etched in my mind the most is the way Lundgren displays his joy after he throws a grenade at Ally Walker. If there could be joy in blowing someone up then Dolph Lundren has depicted it flawlessly! Oh yeah and Van Damme was okay.
Pretty entertaining, a good way to kill 90 minutes without thinking too much
posted on 29 Apr 2008Normally Jean-Claude Van Damme makes pretty run-of-the-mill action films, with him running around, beating people up with his famous Karate skills, saving the girl and of course killing the bad guy, who will very often be a drug-lord. This is different(well, to a degree) than what we usually see him in; the action consists less of him beating up people; actually, he runs from his enemies for a large portion of the film, and only fights relatively little in the film(but when he does, it's darn cool, which is not to say that the rest isn't). The film has some great action, and good humor, and the plot allows for plenty of both. The plot also moves along at a nice pace, and never really makes you lose interest in it. The acting varies, mostly decent, but none of it is *very* bad. The action is intense and exciting. There is some tension created, and it can be dramatic. There is an attempt at a point, a lesson, if it's done more or less half-heartedly. There is a moderate amount of violence, and some of it is gory. All in all, a pretty good action film, considering that it's from the early nineties, but easily beat by films as the Terminator films(only the first two, mind you) and a few other exceptionally good early-nineties action films. I recommend it to fans of Van Damme and/or action movies in general. Just remember to suspend your disbelief, for the entire 90 minutes, or you'll probably just sit there, counting the obvious realism and logic flaws. 6/10
An action classic
posted on 26 Apr 2008Muscles from Brussels and the Swedish man-of-war Dolph Lundgren team up as superhuman soldiers brought back to life from Vietnam in this movie. I'm not sure what it is exactly that they do – I wasn't paying attention. But I'm pretty sure it's something about struggling with obeying the orders from their commanders and having flashbacks from their past lives. What I know is that they do fight a lot. They also fight civilians. They even fight each other, and that's when things start to get very entertaining.It is only fair to watch this movie at least once since it has brought us not one, not two, but THREE sequels. What's even more awesome about these sequels is that they are all rated under 3.5 but not by enough votes to get them on the bottom 100 list on IMDb. If you fail in getting on a list like that, you even fail at failing and that is admirable. Universal Soldier is much more well-liked and higher-rated and rightly so.I do not recall who, but another film critic put it best when he pointed to how different Universal Soldiers was from your average science-fiction movie. To summarize this, where most sci-fi movies get to the part where all the complex science needs to be explained by some brilliant professor, Universal Soldiers simply offers the explanation "we hypercharged their bodies to turn dead flesh into living tissue." And that's how dead soldiers were reanimated into superhuman killing machines. Brilliant. There's no pretension – just take it or leave it.I can't find it in my heart to give this movie anything less than a 7 based on what it set out to do. Even though the acting is atrocious, the script is a joke and the dialogue is stupid, it's still a classic in my opinion. It had some intentionally funny moments like when Van Damme was in the diner and ate like ten meals of "today's special" and everyone was staring at him. If you don't find stuff like that funny, you have to watch it strictly tongue-in-cheek and just go for the brainless early-90s style action and cut-rate explosions. 7/10
i'm giving the orders from now on...
posted on 23 Apr 2008Luc Devreux and Andrew Scott are US soldiers who kill each other in Vietnam when Devreux interferes with Scott's slaughter of a friendly village. Listed as MIA, they are actually flash-frozen and shipped to a top-secret facility where a team of scientists led by Colonel Perry turn the two, along with other select specimens, into super-soldiers known as "UniSols." While helping foil a terrorist takeover of the giant McKinley Dam, Devreux starts having flashbacks to his former life, and makes a break from his colleagues. The increasingly human Devreux teams up with TV reporter Veronica Roberts, while they are chased across much of the Midwest by Scott, and also by Perry and the police, who capture them long enough for Scott to find them. After a chase, thinking that they killed Scott in a truck crash, Veronica takes Devreux home to his parents in Louisiana, only to have Scott catch up with them for a brutal confrontation..probably Van Dammes most famous film ever to hit the big screen thanks to the presence of Lundgren. to us action fans this could be compared to the Pacino/De Niro team up of 'heat' three years later.the story is great and highly original (although comparisons to the terminator are there) and the action is more or less non-stop through the slim running time, Van Damme plays himself as usual, but this time a little more tongue in cheek, but is supported greatly by Lundgren. he is clearly having a ball playing the bad guy and commands every scene that he is in.all the set pieces are very well edited and entertaining and the rest of the support is amiable. it would have been good to get a bit more back story on the unisol programme, but i fear that this would have hindered the movies pace.a cracking action/sci-fi, showing Van Dammes and Lundgrens once strong star statusare we having fun yet??
Erase this from your memory
posted on 02 Apr 2008I read all the great comments about UNIVERSAL SOLDIER and i don't agreed. For me this movie could a great science fiction-action flick and is not. The performance by Van Damme and Lundgren are pathetic and the plot is original but totally predictable. I admire the career of Roland Emmerich; he have a great imagination but with films like ID4 and STARGATE I think that this director must forgot this one from his portfolio. If the movie is not bad enough seven years later a group of producers made a sequel; and if you want to make it worst there's two more sequels made for TV.Just like the soldiers in these movies ERASE this from your memory.
great action,clever writing,great one liners=one great movie
posted on 16 Aug 2009this movie really impressed me.it's clever,well written,and funny.it also has some great,memorable one liners.oh,there's also a ton of action.putting Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren in the same movie really works.add in the beautiful bombshell Ally walker and you have a really,really great film.this is so far my favourite Van Damme film.i really had a blast watching this thing.Van Damme even shows some acting ability.some of the expressions on his face and his deadpan delivery were very funny.Lundgren had quite a few funny one liners,and did OK in the acting dept.Ally Walker was also funny at times.some of the fight scenes are pretty good,too.normally,i don't expect a lot from a Van Damme flick,but i have to give the filmmaker's credit for this one.the crafted a great movie.i can find no fault with this movie.it's just so entertaining.maybe i'm crazy,but "Universal Soldiers" gets a 10/10 from me.