Timecop (1994)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Peter Hyams

Writers (WGA):

Mike Richardson (comic series) and
Mark Verheiden (comic series) ...

Release Date:

16 September 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller | Action | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

They killed his wife ten years ago. There's still time to save her. Murder is forever... until now.

Plot:

An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

Plot Keywords:

Time Travel | Timebomb | Dark Horse Comics | Female Nudity | Nipples

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme	...	Max Walker
Mia Sara	...	Melissa Walker
Ron Silver	...	Senator Aaron McComb
Bruce McGill	...	Commander Eugene Matuzak
Gloria Reuben	...	Sarah Fielding
Scott Bellis	...	Ricky
Jason Schombing	...	Lyle Atwood
Scott Lawrence	...	George Spota
Kenneth Welsh	...	Senator Utley
Brent Woolsey	...	Shotgun
Brad Loree	...	Reyes
Shane Kelly	...	Rollerblades
Richard Faraci	...	Cole
Steven Lambert	...	Lansing (as Steve Lambert)
Kevin McNulty	...	Parker

Also Known As:

Le flic du temps (Canada: French title)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

Canada | USA | Japan

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

Australia:MA | Brazil:14 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | Canada:14A (Ontario) (re-rated 2009) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Germany:16 | Norway:18 | Peru:14 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | New Zealand:R | Finland:K-18 | Finland:K-16 (cut)

Filming Locations:

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Dark Horse Entertainment

Trivia:

Max's futuristic-looking wristwatch is a stock Casio model DW-400.

Goofs:

Plot holes: The purpose of the Time Enforcement Commission is to prevent time-travelers from changing the past. Yet no mention is made of Walker's destructive tendencies, such as firing lasers in front of hundreds of people in 1928, and beating up people in the past. Not to mention, none of these events seems to have any effect on the future.

Quotes:

Eugene Matuzak: Here goes the pension.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Minority Report (2002)

Soundtrack:

SLEAZEBUCKET PULL

It's a Tapert/Raimi film - what's not to like?

Timecop is a pretty hilarious movie, and it has all the trademarks of a

Tapert/Raimi film (i.e., the guys who brought you Evil Dead, Hercules,

Xena, Jack of All Trades...). It's definitely a big-screen movie, but they have some fun, even including dialogue that pokes fun at Jean-Claude's at times unintelligible accent. There are some decent martial arts set pieces, they don't spend too long on the time travel aspects (which is about par for the course for the guys who did time travel in Evil Dead, Hercules, and Xena...). Ron Silver makes a suitably sinister villain, but Bruce McGill steals the show as the protagonist's somewhat befuddled but loyal boss. There are the usual holes that accompany any time travel story, and a weird ending. With the feel-good ending, no one seems to realize that Max won't recall the last 10 years of his married life and time raising his kid! Still, it's a pretty good, not too deep, enjoyable movie.