Timecop
                              
Director: Peter Hyams
Year: 1994
Rating: 7.0
A lot of questions passed through my brain while watching this one. That is always true of time travel films. There are always huge gaps of logic in them. But my main question was how did a cop afford a huge Victorian mansion in Washington DC? And why can't I go back in time and buy it. And of course marry Mia Sara while I was there. But that would be breaking time travel rules and you get executed for that. Look but do not touch. A while back a poll was taken about what event in history did people want to witness. By a large margin, the Crucifixion of Christ won (clearly not taken in the Middle East). They would have had to rent the Super Bowl to fit all the people in. I don't really get that. If anything, wouldn't people prefer to see the Resurrection? Maybe it would be a package deal. Crucifixion, three days at a nice inn with a pool and then the Resurrection. And back home to bore the relatives with. Me? No idea. Maybe watching Koufax pitch one of his no-hitters.

 

In this Jean-Claude Van Damme film time travel has been invented and it is illegal to go back and change history. Found guilty and executed. But the possible riches. There is a cop force formed to go back and catch these folks. The first one is buying stocks on October 29th, 1929. The crash. Wait 100 years and those stocks will be worth enough to run for President. Thanks to the Supreme Court. This candidate had time travel gadgets and can send killers and dupes back in time to enrich him. Played by Ron Silver with the right amount of slime. He even mentions that he will use anti immigration to pull in the suckers. Like that could ever happen.

 

It is up to our man JCVD to stop him. And save his wife Mia. I think we all had a small crush on her with Ferris Bueller's Day Off. She has grown up since then as we see in an unneeded sex scene. Can't believe I wrote that. I am as old as a rusty nail, but damn, it is Bueller's girlfriend. This gets most everything right. The fight scenes may not rank that high in the JCVD canon, but they have purpose and tension. The end fight is harrowing. Directed by Peter Hymes who also helmed the wonderful Outland. A terrific JCVD film and I don't say that often.