Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)

Directed by

John Hyams

Genre

biopunk, dystopian film, action film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 499 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A new breed of super soldier goes rogue and takes a group of hostages. A retired veteran of the original Universal Soldier program is reactivated to stop the threat.

actionsdarktensebrutalgrimfast-pacedseriouslow-key

What happens

Universal Soldier: Regeneration is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed and co-edited by John Hyams, written by Victor Ostrovsky, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. It is the fifth installment in the Universal Soldier franchise and an alternative sequel to the original Universal Soldier (1992), ignores the events from the 1999 theatrical sequel Universal Soldier: The Return and the two made for television sequels that were produced in 1998. Mixed martial artist Andrei Arlovski stars as NGU (Next Generation UniSol), a Universal Soldier of the latest type, along with fellow fighter Mike Pyle as Capt. Kevin Burke. Tekken star Jon Foo appears as a cameo in the film as one of the four UniSols. In the United States the film was released directly to video by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on February 2, 2010. It had a theatrical release in the Middle East and Southeast Asia and some other territories, grossing $844,000 against a production budget of $9 million. It received mixed reviews. It was followed by a sequel in 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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