Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

Release date: 2012-10-25
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: John Hyams
Production Co: Foresight Unlimited, Signature Pictures, Baumgarten Management and Productions (BMP)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction
Rating: 5.0/10
Length: 1h 54min

Storyline

John awakens from a coma to discover his wife and daughter were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Haunted by images of the attack, he vows to kill the man responsible: Luc Deveraux. While John tries to piece his reality back together, things get more complicated when he is pursued by a relentless UniSol named Magnus. Meanwhile, Deveraux and surviving UniSol Andrew Scott are preparing to battle anarchy and build a new order ruled by Unisols without government oversight. They are weeding out the weak and constantly testing their strongest warriors in brutal, life-and-death combat. Luc has emerged operating the Unisol Church of Eventualism, taking in wayward Unisols whom the government has been secretly operating as remote-controlled sleeper agents. His mission is to liberate these Unisols from the implanted memories and the lies the government has inserted in them. As John gets closer to Deveraux and the rogue army of genetically enhanced warriors, he discovers more about himself ...

Plot Keywords

clone, bare butt, male rear nudity, female nudity, assassin, stylized violence, fight to the death, hazing, subliminal message, mixed martial arts, fistfight, brawl, gunfight, rape, male nudity, fourth part, subjective camera, hospital, waking up from a coma, false memory

Short Review

Several sequences of this gorefest, which is posed between hyperkinetic martial-arts mayhem and near-static moments of confusion and terror, have a gleeful virtuosity that nearly redeems its lumbering longueurs and generic splatter.