Chiasmus cult cinema trailers - "Timecop" (1994). *These will be ongoing posts, courtesy of the A.Glass DVD collection. As I offer via Chiasmus Cult trailers, my summarized overviews*

"Timecop" (1994) is that kinda rare 90s science fiction/action blockbuster which may, and I say, may, have revealed a timeline sweet spot of Generation X action movies, reflecting the 1970s and 1980s risque, before it settled into a conservative mindset.  And what I mean by sweet spot and risque, I'm referring to the mix of sex and violence, and Timecop certainly has those elements melded within its storyline.  Based off the 1993 three part comic, "Time Cop: A Man Out of Time" by Dark Horse Comics founder Mike Richardson, and written by Mark Verheiden, with art by Ron Randall to which both Richardson and Verheiden redefined their original story, into the screenplay for Timecop.

And considering that both Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden are 'boomers' who lived through the counterculture years, and were mostly likely exposed to the creativity of the 1970s and 1980s, which, as we all know, pushed boundaries and genres, sans, from their background and work in the comic industry, without being too weird.  "Timecop", if one does look at it from the timelines of it's creative origins, does offer a glimpse of what the 1990s could have been, at least from a popular culture perspective if the 80s never ended.  Am I reading into this too much?  And yet, it has to be reminded that no way would this movie be made today, particularly with Jean-Claude Van Damme's enigmatic sex scene, he plays the hero "Max Walker", seen at the beginning of the movie, which may have come, no pun, off the heels of Paul Verhoeven's "Basic Instinct" (1992).  

Yet, despite the rather explicit sex scene, with actress Mia Sara ("Melissa Walker") and full body naked sequence no, not Vande Damn, an extra (female), in some 'Matrix' style loop, which was never really explained in the story.  "Timecop" is a well orchestrated action flick, science fiction drama, love story, as Walker, a Time Enforcement Commission agent, tries to hold the timelines together, while figuring out that the nefarious, time hopping (with his cronies in tow) Presidential candidate "Senator Aaron McComb", played comfortably by the late neocon and diehard zionist, Ron Silver, in reflection of himself, hence why his villainy looked so convincing in the movie, is out to eradicate him and his wife from reality.  As an astute Max Walker, when attempting to bring his wayward ex-partner to justice in 2004 (yes, the future we never had) from betting on the stock market crash of 1929, only to discovery that he, Walker's partner, is working for McComb.

"Timecop" was Jean-Claude Van Damme's highest grossing picture, racking in $102 million from a budget of $28 million, and even though there are plot holes, slightly odd sequences, the movie does hold together, as a 1990s cult classic, and Van Damme's martial arts, his trademark splits and kicking, which would have left a slew of villains with broken jaws, is persistent throughout and so are the gunfights, and well choreographed action sequences.  The political intrigue is also in there, as 2004, the future from 1994, watch for the Van Damme's futuristic apartment and Blade Runner - esque 'windowless cars', warns us, in it counterculture 1970s prose, that America is going to go Far Right, if we are not careful, the writers of course missed the mark by twenty one years, because we are dealing with that now, in 2025.

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(A.Glass 2025)

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