but got undressed at some point because as the scene starts, he is only wearing boxers. Why it Matters: Well, we have a lot to admire here. Just prior to this moment, Walker spent the night in dead-wife-movie-cliché, drinking in the dark while watching a home movie of her talking to him while he films. As the story progresses, Walker leaps back again to try and stop the corrupt senator as the two race for control over each other’s destiny.įast-paced, well-directed and filled with better action and special effects than the usual Van Damme experience, Timecop delivers as a 90s action thriller. Walker is double-crossed by someone close and narrowly escapes his own death while attempting to stop McComb. McComb has been looting the past for gold and cash and has a lot of powerful people in his back pocket. He learns that he his working against his will to steal money from the past to fund the presidential bid of none other than McComb, and feels suicide is the only way out of his dilemma. We sense something foul afoot.Ī decade later, Walker is still at the TEC and finds himself in 1929 trying to prevent his former partner from jumping out of a window during the stock market crash. That same night, his home is attacked and his wife is killed in a massive explosion. Soon after, police officer Max Walker ( Jean-Claude Van Damme) is made a TEC agent. Headed by the so-obviously-a-bad-guy-you-wonder-why-he-isn’t-named-Snidely, the shady Senator Aaron McCrumb ( Ron Silver) has plans of his own for the project. Because of its use for nefarious exploits (think machine gun-totting robbers holding up Civil War era coaches), it is also illegal and the government has created a Time Enforcement Commission with special agents to prevent and investigate these time. A box office hit, it was met with mixed reviews by critics, but is often considered one of the better film of it star. Timecop is a science fiction crime thriller about a cop who uncovers a plot by a politician to use time as a means to win the Presidency.
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