Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

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Released Nov 30, 2012

1h 53m

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Sci-Fi

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Archenemies Luc Devereaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) contend with a terrifying army of reanimated supersoldiers.

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Critics Consensus

The mooted final installment in the long-running series is a hyper-violent, often grim throwback to action movies of yore -- which will appeal to some audiences just as emphatically as it deters others.

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R. Emmet Sweeney

Film Comment Magazine

Hyams has created a truly unique object, a horror-action-flicker film about uniquely expressive bodies haunted by the minds and memories they are forced to house.

Nov 9, 2015

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Richard Brody

The New Yorker

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.

Dec 10, 2012

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Louis Black

Austin Chronicle

As with all the films in the Universal Soldier series, this is mostly a catalog of increasingly brutal fights, which are the main attraction in and of themselves.

Rated: 2.5/5

Nov 30, 2012

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

An hour into the film it's still no clearer exactly what is supposed to be going on.

Rated: 2/10

Dec 2, 2020

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Brent McKnight

The Last Thing I See

An overly violent mess of gory revenge, kill crazy rampages in a day-glo UniSol brothel, and an awesome brain-drilling scene. Insane, esoteric, weirdly dense, and wanting in the logic department, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning is a damn blast.

Rated: A

Jul 18, 2020

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Stephen Saito

Moveable Fest

For a film that should feel as if it came off a conveyer belt, "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" may struggle with its origins as much as its characters, but ultimately transcends them to become something revelatory for its entire genre.

Dec 17, 2018

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Andy D

Fantastic. Love this new twist on the franchise. Gritty, violent and grim.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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Jerod S

The fighting is gorier - but the plot line is equally as messy. Van Damme is a figment of seizure inducing mind spasms.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/03/24

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Liam D

Probably the best movie in the franchise because this a throwback to 80s action movies but also Slasher movies as well

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/17/22

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Audience Member

The more you watch the sequence the more you miss the original...

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

Half boring art-house wannabe with lots of slow motion and nothing happening. Half senseless graphic violence for the sake of senseless graphic violence. And a bunch of really annoying strobe lights thrown in for good measure.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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george l

I haven't seen the other Universal Soldier movies because they seemed like cookie cutter van Damme movies. I saw this on late night TV. It's great. Low budget, but great. You have to watch it twice to figure out the plot. It's as dark and creepy as it is violent. Scott Adkins is terrific.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Synopsis

Archenemies Luc Devereaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) contend with a terrifying army of reanimated supersoldiers.

Director: John Hyams
Producer: Craig Baumgarten, Moshe Diamant, Allen Shapiro
Screenwriter: John Hyams, Doug Magnuson, John Greenhalgh
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Baumgarten, Foresight Unlimited, Signature Pictures
Rating: R (Graphic Nudity|Brutal Bloody Violence|Language|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 30, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.2K
Runtime: 1h 53m

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