There's an audience for Van Damme, Seagal and Co. And I am not in their number, except when exhausted and
looking for very light entertainment. At the time of its release this Van Damme movie had a memorable trailer, with two impressive scenes, one the amazing split in the kitchen and the other his character's appearance from a time warp in front of a speeding truck.
It made me want to watch it, also because I am a fan of time travel stories. It starts strong with a decent scene between Van Damme, as Walker, and Mia Sara as his wife, but unfortunately it derails with the introduction of the time travel twist, taking the audience abruptly back to 1929 and then back and forward between 1994 and 2004. Walker must fight the villain played by Ron Silver, an actor specialised in playing sleazy, but there's little logic in the development and most fight scenes drag on too long to give the audience a chance to enjoy Muscles from Brussels fighting skills.
Van Damme's skills are indeed impressive, but I also got bored to see faces getting smashed and guys shot at, the last fight scene in the dark being particularly overlong and peppered with silly dialogues. Still worth a shot and you can fast forward some fight scenes.
It made me want to watch it, also because I am a fan of time travel stories. It starts strong with a decent scene between Van Damme, as Walker, and Mia Sara as his wife, but unfortunately it derails with the introduction of the time travel twist, taking the audience abruptly back to 1929 and then back and forward between 1994 and 2004. Walker must fight the villain played by Ron Silver, an actor specialised in playing sleazy, but there's little logic in the development and most fight scenes drag on too long to give the audience a chance to enjoy Muscles from Brussels fighting skills.
Van Damme's skills are indeed impressive, but I also got bored to see faces getting smashed and guys shot at, the last fight scene in the dark being particularly overlong and peppered with silly dialogues. Still worth a shot and you can fast forward some fight scenes.