Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

"There's monsters in the house." "From this moment on, you will be free from your oppressors." Hyams takes the DTV martial arts ownage meets robotic killing machine slasher style he explored in Regeneration and amplifies it into full-on surreal horror abstraction.…

Josh Lewis

"These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love. But they had the strength. The strength to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are…

matt lynch

This is more avant-garde than what passes as "art cinema" these days...structured like a video game, we progress through levels of American spaces, from suburbia to motel rooms..

Neil Bahadur

Secretly one of the very greatest experimental films of the century.

Eli Hayes

I try to avoid the "vulgar auteur" label, because it makes me feel funny for some reason - I guess because I don't think movies like these need to be isolated from other art. Why something like BAD BOYS II gets put under this category and not, say, something by Lars von…

sydney

Expanding on the haunting, dialogue-free stunner of the last 20 minutes or so of REGENERATION, John Hyams makes this not so much an action movie as one of the trippiest, scariest movies I've seen in a long time. Long digital crawls with cheap video lighting and a score that…

Sean Gilman

"there is a System for controlling human will and consciousness. the System is not you, a man trained in the image of a soldier -- it is a method, a protocol, that created a circumstance that made you what you are. "given the right situation, the right story, anyone can be…

comrade_yui

Wowwwww. I freely admit I might be overrating this, but only because it's so crazy/satisfying to see a sequel to Universal Soldier of all things and discover it to be a quasi-Lynchian surrealist nightmare, almost completely (if not completely) uninterested in fulfilling the…

Joe

"There is no end. Always another John." A monster movie masquerading as a DTV action film. War is the creator. No memory exists beyond the violence you were meant to perpetrate against your enemies. Live. Kill. Die. Repeat.

Jacob Knight