1/4/2023 0 Comments Watch timecop 1994![]() ![]() It should all be convoluted knots of ideas and paths of reality, as time travel tends to be. ![]() He does so because he is trying to catch Senator McComb, a bad-guy politician who is manipulating the past so he can wiggle himself into the presidency in a forthcoming election. And that’s how we eventually get to JCVD, who spends the bulk of his time bouncing back and forth through time from 1994 (when his wife was murdered) to 2004 (the movie’s present day). WATCH TIMECOP 1994 MOVIEThe first time-travel scene, which is how the movie opens, is the impetus, establishing that time travel is a reality and that the past is no longer static. It’s important for the next part of this story: Time travel is always a ridiculous notion, and it’s even more troublesome to write about, so please just look at this infographic and you will know all of the times that time travel occurred in Timecop (that we are shown) and the reason for each occurrence. It is 1,000 leagues deeper than anything else from his filmography. And so he bounces around time and space, karate-kicking people and silently crying and sometimes openly crying instead. The only person he’s ever loved is dead, and he absolutely has the ability to reverse it, but he absolutely cannot. The TEC is in charge of policing time travel, a thing that is possible but also a thing that appears to be exclusive to something like five people on the planet, all of whom know each other and work in buildings that are not that far apart.Īnd despite having the ability to do so, JCVD, broken and bitter and incomplete, is not allowed to travel back to prevent his wife’s death because of the risk that doing so could have unknown side effects on the present day. In Timecop, however, JCVD plays Max Walker, husband to a murdered wife and employee of a secret government agency called the Time Enforcement Commission. Van Damme has starred in no fewer than four movies in which the plot was essentially “Van Damme has to fight some dudes to win a fight thing for a reason he has” ( Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Lionheart, The Quest). Jean-Claude Van Damme’s most profound film. More relevant than that, at least for the purposes of this column, Timecop is also: And also kind of why it will always be a JCVD movie you have to mention when you talk about JCVD movies. Still, no film on that list can match Timecop, which has tallied more than $100 million globally. Double Impact cost $16 million and brought in more than $80 million. Lionheart cost $6 million and brought in more than $24 million. Even Cyborg, which took only $500,000 to make, earned back 2,000 percent more than its production costs, somehow grabbing $10 million from moviegoers’ pockets. Starting with 1988’s Bloodsport, Van Damme went 16 films strong before releasing one that didn’t manage to earn back its budget (1997’s Double Team, which cost approximately $30 million to film and brought in less than $12 million). The whole first stanza of JCVD’s career is filled with surprisingly hefty succe$$e$. 1 This is important because money is important. Jean-Claude Van Damme’s most financially successful film. But it is two things, both of which are important for their own reasons. It’s not the most “I want to kill myself,” because that’s Cyborg. It’s not the most camp, because that’s Hard Target. It’s not the most underrated, because that’s Death Warrant. It’s not the most legit, because that’s JCVD. It’s not the most surprising, because that’s Lionheart. It’s not the most inspired, because that’s Kickboxer. It’s not a lot of things, really: It’s not the best, because that’s Bloodsport. Timecop is not the best movie of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s career. Let me tell you a little about Timecop, because I spent 10 hours this past weekend watching it and watching it and thinking about it and thinking about it, but also because, before that, I’d probably seen it 50 or so times and so I like to talk about it whenever I can. Today: Shea Serrano on Timecop, released September 16, 1994. Throughout 2014, Grantland will look back at some of the most memorable, beloved, and baffling releases of that magical time around their 20th anniversaries. Blockbuster or indie, rom-com or action thriller, there was something indelible about so many of them. ![]()
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