TIMECOP
A film review by Ben Hoffman
Copyright 1994 Ben Hoffman
In the world of Science Fiction. it is "known" that you cannot witness future events by going ahead in time. However, it is also "obvious" that you can go back and witness events that have happened in the past. And if you can do that, you can change an event so that what follows will be changed, too. If you go back and kill a grandparent of someone you know in the present, that person will then not be born and you have changed the course of events. In that manner, traveling to the past and altering events would allow for a new kind of criminal.
Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a timecop in the year 2004 who works for the Time Enforcement Commission that prohibits going back which by that time had become a reality. When Senator McComb (Ron Silver) goes back in time to change events and become rich and enable him to run for president in the present, It is Walker's mission to prevent McComb from changing the past. Going back in time with him is Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben). who also works for the Time Enforcement Commission.
When Walker travels to the past, he meets Melissa (Mia Sara) who in the present was his wife but who was murdered. Now Walker realizes he can change the events that led to her murder and they can thus live happily ever after. (Still with me?)
As in all the action films, this one is filled with shootings and gore. The only difference is that it has time-travel as its gimmick. No matter how you slice it, it is still an action film and it is still Science Fiction.
Directed by Peter Hyams. 2 Bytes 4 Bytes = Absolutely must see. 3 Bytes = Too good to be missed. 2 Bytes = So so. 1 Byte = Save your money.
Ben Hoffman
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