This is another of those 90s action movies that I was probably too young for when it first came out and then didn't see for whatever reason. I feel like it's maybe a classic (?) considering it has like three sequels, none of which I have ever heard of before. I dunno. During the Viet Nam war, American soldier Luc Devereaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) confronts his sergeant, Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), who has gone off the deep end and started murdering civilians, and the two end up killing each other. Fast forward to the 90s and hotshot reporter Veronica Roberts (Ally Walker) is caught snooping around the very hush-hush Universal Soldier program. Scott and Devereaux are just supposed to detain her but their programming isn't as complete as the doctors and higher-ups want to believe. Scott tries to shoot her in the head and Devereaux snaps, breaking away and running off with Veronica. The government is very interested in getting him back before the world realizes that the U.S. Army has been taking dead soldiers listed as MIA and regenerating them into unstoppable killing machines with no free will.
This isn't terrible. It's very much a B-movie popcorn action flick that has gotten even cheesier with age but that doesn't necessarily work against it. It's still kind of intentionally funny and very unintentionally funny. Van Damme really missed his calling for some of the wacky hijinks movies of the later 90s. I don't know that I'll make an effort to see any of the sequels but I won't intentionally avoid them.
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