Film critic Roger Ebert predicted in one way or another with a major science fiction before its issuance

Jean-Claude Van Damme has made a lot of filmsAnd many of them … not great. But then, there is a handful of gemstones in the movement of the movement full of movement. I’m sure everyone has his personal favorites, Mine is “Timecop” and Peter Hyams.A possible new version was announced in 2014, but fortunately it never happened). I mean, first and foremost, the movie is called “Timecop“It is difficult to resist a movie with such a title, especially when the film presents itself exactly what is announced: a policeman travels through time.

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“Timecop” relied on a series of comic books, but since I never read it, I will not comment on it. Instead, I will talk about the movie, which now contains a new 4K version of the Shout Factory. I got a reconsideration of the film for the new 4K version, which leads me to the original theatrical review of the legendary Roger Ebert. Reading this review, in turn, leads to a sudden thing: direct contact and it seems impossible with the time of time traveling completely different.

But I will reach that for a moment.

“Timecop” is located in the 2004 far -fighter (!), To a world where time travel is located. As with most time travel films, there are some rules. Very much A discharge of the entertainment show at the beginning of the movie (He was handed over with experience by actor Scott Lawrence), we learn that you can travel behind In time in the past, but you cannot travel forward In the future, because the future has not yet happened. Of course, this immediately causes a paradox: if you travel again in time, how can you return to the future, and also known as your present, if you are Not possible Travel forward?

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Answer: It does not matter. “Timecop” does not really care about logic. She just wants to use a large hypothesis and his father and enjoy some fun. He does. Van Damme Max Walker, a policeman who works for the Time Enforcement Committee (TEC), who is assigned to travel at the time of the police. As you can see, if traveling through time is present, it is logical that some bad actors try to use it for nefarious ways. The punishment for doing this is an extremist: Any person has caught in the future over time He was sentenced to death.

Max’s wife, Melissa (Mia Sarah), was killed a few years ago, so I bet you can guess where things go: Max will eventually use time to save Melissa’s life. But first he must deal with the wonderful evil Senator Aaron McOMP, who played with delicious beating by the late Ron Silver. MCCOCB plans to use travel across both and Be the President of the United States. Evil head?! Talk about a long time!

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I saw for the first time “Timecop” when I hit VHS (my age) in the mid -1990s, and I was a fan, how teenage children were filmmakers with a lot of punching, kicking and shooting. Reconsidering the movie now in 4K, I keep a fan, although I can see how absurdity of the movie. But this is not a blow against “Timecop” – in fact, comfort makes the movie more fun.

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Nothing here is really logical. TEC revolves around maintaining the current schedule and not interfering in the past, however, the act of sending MAX in time to do Timecop things, of course, interferes with the past. Early in the movie, Max returns to the twenties of the twentieth century and participates in a great battle with his former partner, who went to address the stock market. A lot of things blow and the bad man literally throws a building until his death. Certainly it seems that this event is, by default, changing the past! Is this not a problem?

Or what about this. To go back in time, Max must enter into a car sitting on a railway, such as parking the park. Then the car is launched below a runway and finally sends Max again in time. At the end of the runway, there is a large brick wall, and we were told that if the time machine does not succeed, the car will go out in the brick wall and kill the concern – this happened before. but Why do we put the brick wall to start? Can you easily avoid this danger! Moreover, whenever Max is traveling in time, the travel car over the time it disappears; It only appears in the past. Then, when Max returns to the future (also known as his present), he does this across the car. how? Again: It does not matter. All that matters is that we are watching, as long as some divisions are done and some bad guys kill.

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As I mentioned above, the “Timecop” will lead me to Roger Ebert’s review of the film, was published in 1994. When I watch or watch an older movie, I usually look for an EBERT review – Ebert was one of the best ever, and I can see it and wisdom (something that is deeply missing in our current scene to review films).

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Ebert gave “Timecop” stars 2 out of 4, which was fair. But it was the last paragraph of Ebert’s review that really caught my attention. EBERT “Timecop” compares with another famous concession to travel through time: “terminator”. When he closes his review, he writes:

“The original” Terminator “hypothesis is not assumed, as I traveled that Hollywood was traveling to the past and struck the tissue of time in a way that we could not have” Timecop “with Van Damme instead of” Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines “with Schwarzengger. You see what can happen.”

Here, I did double. Ebert talks about the third virtual movie “Terminator”, which he calls (joking) “Rise of the Machines”. But of course, “terminator 3” (It is also known as the third best movie “Terminator”Ultimately – and when it was, he was already called it “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.” But this is the thing: this movie did not come out until 2003, that is, after a full decade of “Timecop” review from Ebelt. Some quick research indicates The early text program for “Terminator 3” appeared in the early 1997But this is still a few years after EBERT “Timecop”.

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In other words, Roger Ebert expected in one way or another entitled “Terminator 3.” Is this a coincidence? Or did Ebel traveled somehow over time, just like Max Van Damme, and learn the truth? Of course, we all know that this is impossible – Ebert had to travel to the future, and where we taught “Timecop”, it could not happen.

You can buy “Timecop” on 4K here.