Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Load of rubbish!!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This movie is a missed oportunity for JCVD to have a franchise since this movie succeded alot and if he wasnt doing other roles that ruined his career and wasnt on drugs at the time then this could have been his terminator anyway this movie can be a letdown and doesnt make sense but it was kind of entertaining and acting was decent ofc jcvd was decent since he was improving as an actor and obviously it can be directors fault for jcvd being bad alot of times like in Hard Target or Bloodsport but some movies like lionheart and nowhere to run and jcvd and alot of recent movies have good to decent acting. Plot doesnt make sense ofc i dont want to talk about it since i dont like spoiling movies. Everything was decent but some special effects looked nice and can still hold up.Decent

This movie is Big Fun. As described by my roommate Tommy, who's never seen this movie: If you haven't seen this movie you're "missing out on cinematic gold" and boy is he right. TIMECOP! YAHHH! TIMECOP!I love how this movie plays fast and loose with commonly perceived Time Travels theories. I get it back to the future you guys are the gold standard but F the right off. Another thing that was a slam dunk, how well this movie predicted future technology (Self-Driving Cars, Smart Houses, Voice controlled Electronics!) and those future cars are so freaking sweet. Now to the deets (aka details, damn millennials!). JVCD is an incredible in this movie. I assume he learned all of his amazing karate moves from Pro-Wrestling Great and his brother Rob Van Dam (RVD). Some internet theories claim they're twins, but I digress. I'm still not sure if JVCD is the good guy in this film even though the filmmaker is obviously trying to shove that notion down our throats. JVCD goes up against a senator IMHO is using the tools provided him, to make a run at the white house. The senator, Senator McComb, who's positioned as the "bad guy" isn't all that bad. He's trying to do what America has tried to do for the past fifty years, self fund his Presidential run rather than take money from big business and special interest groups. I know, i know, he's stealing money in time, thus messing up the future, but frig off. What should they care after it happens, it changes time forever and no one is worse off. Anyway, he wants to just become a truly un-corruptable President and he should be applauded. But this is where he messed up, he frigged with the wrong dude. JVCD! He sent his goons back in time, for what appears to be no reason whatsoever, to Murder JVCD and JVCD's wife. BIG MISTAKE, he should have stayed in his lane, because he couldn't kill JVCD even if he had all of the best goons with all of the best Mullets (Spoiler Alert: His Goons have some beautiful mullets). The good thing is, since Mr. McComb made this critical mistake, we were blessed (as the audience) to get two Jean- Claude's at once. The only thing better then one JVCD kicking butt, is two JVCD's kicking butt and the only thing better than that is Two JVCD's kicking butt while one of the JVCD's has a Mullet. Sidenote: this movie is littered with incredible Mullets, Classic '94. But hands down the best part of the movie is when Mr. McComb dies at the end of the movie. They made up this awesome rule that you can't come in contact with your future/past self at anytime (aka same matter can't occupy the same space(see the title of the review)). With time running out on the Timecop, Future JVCD, to save his wife in the past, he utters that awesome phrase "Same Matter Can't Occupy the Same Space" and kicks Past McComb into future McComb and then amazing happens. its hard to put into words but virtually two bodies meld together and then turn into the Slime from Ghostbusters 2 and melts into the floor never to be heard from again. Truly amazing CGI work by any standard!Few final thoughts; This movie has so many layers and sweet little tidbits. For instance its the film debut of Tay Zonday (The Chocolate Rain Guy, have you listened to chocolate rain recently? There is a line in the song that says "Chocolate Rain, Only in the Past is what they say" WOAH!!!! How eerie is that! when he says "the Past" he is referring to Time and maybe his first role in the hit movie Timecop, which is the movie you are reading a review about). Also another nice little Easter Egg in this movie, is the Sheriff from My Cousin Vinny. Now that's a great movie "I'm done with this Guy!" Vinny gets it.

Time travel is invented. Going forward is impossible but going back can be catastrophic. The government creates the Time Enforcement Commission to police time travel. Someone has already got back to steal gold from the Confederacy in 1863. Senator McComb (Ron Silver) volunteers to be the oversight. Policeman Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is attacked at home and his wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is caught when their house explodes. Ten years later, he travels back to 1929 to apprehend his ex-partner Lyle Atwood trying to cash in on the market. Atwood tells him that McComb is the organizer trying to get money for his run for the Presidency. Matuzak (Bruce McGill) is his supervisor. Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben) from internal affairs is assigned his new partner.There is something wrong with the plot but my head hurts trying to figure it out. It is more ambitious writing than Van Damme's other movies. It is not quite sharp enough. The things that we love Van Damme for is the fights. There are plenty of his splits and his kicks. At times, I would rather have a simpler movie and concentrate on Van Damme's strengths.I think the problem starts with Matuzak saying that Max's word isn't enough and yet somehow with Sarah, that's enough to put McComb in prison. And why would Sarah flip on McComb? Wouldn't it be easier to kill Max when he was born? I'm sure McComb could find Max's birth certificate. It's not the logic of time travel that bugs me but the logic of characters' actions that are more problematic.

A cohesive story line, a well-developed plot, and an often naked Jean-Claude Van Damm; well, I guess one for three isn't a total waste. Actually, it almost is when the one achieved you could find copies of in a magazine and hardly need to watch a film to see. I had high hopes for Timecop based on friends who spoke excitedly of the film. Not knowing what to expect, having never seen a Van Damm flick, I took their word for it; and yes, I am evaluating my friendships. What could have been a fun innovative story line turned out to be a forgettable disappointment that is Timecop.Our story begins, just for moments, in the familiar old west as we see a time traveler vaporize union soldiers transporting gold, which gives us a hint of just how long this time traveling device has been in effect. Obviously time travel has been perfected and used however a society sees fit. That's where our hero comes in, working for a security agency who exploits time travel to go back in time and prevent crimes from being committed. Criminals have become adept in their illegal conquests and often use time travel to alter the time line to further enhance their criminal activity. When Walker (Van Damm) is told by a former co-worker that the Senator (Ron Silver) in charge of the Time Enforcement Commission is abusing power and time travel for his own game, he begins keeping an eye on him. One evening, after a night in with his wife, and just before she tells him some big news, Melissa (Mia Sara) Walker is called away to work and upon him heading out, his wife is killed, and his house bombed to the ground. Spending the next 10 years grieving, and watching Senator McComb, Walker attempts to arrange the perfect plan to thwart his wife's killing and save the future.Where does one begin with a critique for this film? For one thing, the movie's established method of time travel is heavily flawed. In this film's world, one cannot explore the future because it hasn't happened yet, characters can only travel into the past. The problem with this is, however, that once the individual leaves their present for the past, the present becomes the future. Since the present turns into the future, this should mean that once the individual is in the past, they would have no way to return to their present. Another problem with the film is molecular biology. According to the plot, the same matter cannot occupy the same space-which becomes very important later in the film. The problem is, even the same person from two different dimensions of time, is not composed of the same matter they were years in the past. The human body is largely made up of water, which is constantly replaced, cell repair that is continuously taking place, with the functioning of the human body there would exist none of the same matter creating an obvious plot hole. Anyway, enough plot holes in the film to make it look like one of the walls shot up on screen, I surely won't be seeing it again anytime soon.I'm not sure who to recommend this film to. I'm sure action fans will like it, if they have a bent for sci-fi works as well. Fans of Jean-Claude Van Damm would certainly find the film enjoyable. There is always a suspension of disbelief that goes along with watching a film; Timecop requires not just a suspension of disbelief, but a suspension of memory and intelligence as well. It's difficult for one to keep up with a film that is constantly changing its own premise, and that is not an exercise I wish to perfect.