It's one thick accent VS another thick accent when Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren start duking it out. Kickboxer and the former He-Man play two soldiers in Vietnam, Van Damme the down home nice guy Cajun boy and Lundgren a sadistic sergeant who has a fetish for ears. After a personal and political dispute regarding the execution of some Vietnam prisoners, Van Damme and Lundgren kill each other, but are preserved in ice and then resurrected years later as Universal Soldiers - Unisols for short - hi tech government weapons of mass destruction, and they are just two of a few. Naturally things go awry when the two remember their past, with the colonel in charge naturally refusing to take them off line when the scientists say they should be pulled for a systems check. Throw in Ally Walker as a sexy, sexually repressed reporter who doesn't work and play nice with others, and you've got the recipe for an engagingly trashy action film featuring the clash of titans who can barely speak English.
Having grown up with Dolph Lundgren as He-Man in 1987's "Masters of the Universe", there's something extremely not kosher about watching him play a bad guy, especially with the way he relishes lines like "I'm all ears." Of course, the biggest stretch of the imagination is the idea that Jean Claude Van Damme could actually DEFEAT Dolph Lundgren. Oh well, just watch the violence.
Having grown up with Dolph Lundgren as He-Man in 1987's "Masters of the Universe", there's something extremely not kosher about watching him play a bad guy, especially with the way he relishes lines like "I'm all ears." Of course, the biggest stretch of the imagination is the idea that Jean Claude Van Damme could actually DEFEAT Dolph Lundgren. Oh well, just watch the violence.