Universal Solider: Day of Reckoning (2012)Directed by John Hyams"Universal Solider" is a 1992 action movie that I haven't seen in a long time, and I was watching a video about it which mentioned the sequels. There are two made-for-TV sequels ("Universal Solider II: Brothers in Arms" and "Universal Solider III: Unfinished Business"), followed by a theatrical sequel called "Universal Solider: The Return". This was followed by "Universal Solider: Regeneration" and "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" which were made direct-to-video and ignored the TV and the first theatrical sequel.I have not watched any of those. However, I had heard good things about this one when it was released a few years back, and so I watched it (there is a version of it on @primevideoin but this appears to be a censored one, with a 105 min runtime as opposed to the complete 114 min). You can enjoy this one even if you haven't seen the other movies.This was noted for it's strong violence and darker tone, both of which I'm happy to say, the movie delivers on. It's played very seriously and does pack in some interesting ideas. It doesn't spend too much time on exposition, and curiously the Wikipedia article actually does explain the story pretty well, which you can read after watching the film.The movie stars Scott Adkins as John, a man who is assaulted and his family killed by Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), one of the original UniSols (dead soliders reanimated as cyborgs). On recovering nine months later, with memory loss, he sets off to find Luc and to piece together past events. The movie has a horror vibe to it (with body horror/sci fi elements) and the action scenes are brutal and extremely well done. Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren from the original make appearances here though their screen time is limited. I drew Van Damme as Luc from the movie with his "Apocalypse Now" inspired look, this was done with multi colour ballpoint pen on A5 notebook from @themedschoolstudent.store. You can swipe to see a scan.#karthikabhiram #dailymoviesketch#ballpointpen #ballpointpendrawing#universalsolider #jcvd #vandamme#599 / 31-Jul-21
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