Oh Dolph....what the hell was that? This movie is about a truck driver who is sentenced to 30 years in prison for shooting a police officer in a raid of the truck, but there's something about him we don't know......OK enough of the BS, Dolph plays a man framed for a crime he didn't commit and losing a friend in the process (Ken Foree of Dawn of the Dead fame). After escaping from prison he kidnaps a woman to use as a hostage, what he doesn't know is the woman is actually a rugged cop who's basically your Steven Seagal "beat up the bad guys by any means nessicary" type. The thing is, Dolph was framed by 2 crooked cops that blew away the officer Dolph was framed for killing and Ken Foree so Ivan Drago spends the whole movie lugging around Rita and plotting revenge on the crooked cops.
The reason this movie is stupid is because 1. If Sgt Scott was framed, why didn't he say something in court, after all forensics can match up the bullets fired with the guns of the crooked cops 2. She's supposed to be a cop, you would think she would have tried to escape more often than she did. I could go on and on but there are just too many holes for me to deduce logic. Here's something else, one scene Ivan Drago is up against 25 or so Chinese mobsters and takes out all of them...singlehandedly of course. The thing is every time he shot a gun he'd hit whoever he was shooting, 5 minutes later the cops surround the area and suddenly when Dolph shoots at them he can't hit anyone. Where'd his perfect aim go? Another funny thing is after Sgt Scott gets shot in the leg, he gets involved in a hell of a fist fight and starts doing karate kicks with the bad leg, landing on it like nothing was wrong with it.
The coup di grace...make it coup Disgrace is the ending where Geoffrey Ross discovers the crooked cops are the real murderers and has them AND Dolph arrested as the credits roll. We are left not knowing what happens to the cops, what happens to Dolph, the female officer...nothing.
Sorry Dolph, this was not Universal Soldier. 4 out of 10
The reason this movie is stupid is because 1. If Sgt Scott was framed, why didn't he say something in court, after all forensics can match up the bullets fired with the guns of the crooked cops 2. She's supposed to be a cop, you would think she would have tried to escape more often than she did. I could go on and on but there are just too many holes for me to deduce logic. Here's something else, one scene Ivan Drago is up against 25 or so Chinese mobsters and takes out all of them...singlehandedly of course. The thing is every time he shot a gun he'd hit whoever he was shooting, 5 minutes later the cops surround the area and suddenly when Dolph shoots at them he can't hit anyone. Where'd his perfect aim go? Another funny thing is after Sgt Scott gets shot in the leg, he gets involved in a hell of a fist fight and starts doing karate kicks with the bad leg, landing on it like nothing was wrong with it.
The coup di grace...make it coup Disgrace is the ending where Geoffrey Ross discovers the crooked cops are the real murderers and has them AND Dolph arrested as the credits roll. We are left not knowing what happens to the cops, what happens to Dolph, the female officer...nothing.
Sorry Dolph, this was not Universal Soldier. 4 out of 10