Universal Soldier : Regeneration (2009) 6/10

Starring : Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mike Pyle, Garry Cooper, Corey Johnson, Emily Joyce, Kerry Shale
Director : John Hyams
Running Time : 97 mins

When a group of terrorists steal the information needed to create their own UniSols, former experimental soldier Luc Devereaux (Van Damme) is brought out of rehabilitation to go and fight the unyielding killing machine (Arlovski) and rescue his hostages, but when he discovers that there are in fact two UniSol’s, and the other is his old enemy Andrew Scott (Lundgren). Devereaux realises that things just got personal.

Why people don’t aim for the head is beyond me. The guy’s wearing what is clearly a bulletproof vest and the soldiers still shoot him in the torso! Still, fans of the Universal Soldier franchise should enjoy this action sequel, though it does ignore some of the story line that has gone before and instead makes up its own timeline of events to suit the needs of the script, and Arlovski fits in well with his lack of personality and his unusual tactic of repeatedly pounding people in the face – hardly efficient use of a soldier...

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