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Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action film directed by Peter Hyams and co-written by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. Richardson also served as executive producer. The film is based on Timecop, a story created by Richardson, written by Verheiden, and drawn by Ron Randall, which appeared in the anthology comic Dark Horse Comics, published by Dark Horse Comics. It is the first installment in the Timecop franchise.

Timecop
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Hyams
Screenplay by	Mark Verheiden
Story by	Mike Richardson Mark Verheiden
Based on	Timecop by Mike Richardson Mark Verheiden
Produced by	Moshe Diamant Sam Raimi Robert Tapert
Starring	Jean-Claude Van Damme Ron Silver Mia Sara
Cinematography	Peter Hyams
Edited by	Steven Kemper
Music by	Mark Isham
Production companies	Largo Entertainment Signature Pictures Renaissance Pictures Dark Horse Entertainment
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	September 16, 1994 (1994-09-16)
Running time	98 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$27-28 million[2][3]
Box office	$101.6 million[3]

The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Max Walker, a police officer in 1994 and later a U.S. federal agent in 2004, when time travel has been made possible. It also stars Ron Silver as a corrupt politician and Mia Sara as Melissa Walker, the agent's wife. The story follows Walker's life as he fights time-travel crime and investigates the politician's plans.

Timecop remains Van Damme's highest-grossing film as a lead actor (his second to break the $100 million barrier worldwide), having become a cult classic with fans. Although met with mixed reviews, it is generally regarded by critics as one of Van Damme's best films.

Plot

In 1863 Gainesville, Georgia, a time traveller with modern laserdot-equipped machine-pistols slaughters Confederate States Army soldiers and steals their shipment of gold.

In 1994, the Justice Department sends George Spota to the Senate Appropriations Committee for approval on a secret project: the establishment of the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) to police the new threat of time travel. Spota convinces them that changes to history are already manifesting, evidenced by arms trafficking shipments paid for in stolen Confederate bullion. Senator Aaron McComb volunteers to chair the oversight committee and Eugene Matuzak is nominated as the TEC's first commissioner. DC Metro Police officer Max Walker considers accepting a position with the TEC. Leaving home, he and his wife Melissa are attacked by unknown assailants. Walker is left for dead as the house explodes, killing Melissa.

Ten years later, Walker is a veteran TEC agent, and is sent back to October 1929 to prevent his former partner Lyle Atwood profiting from the stock market crash. Atwood admits to working for Senator McComb, who is abusing his oversight of time travel technology to raise funds for his upcoming presidential campaign. Fearing McComb will erase him from history, Atwood jumps to his death, but Walker catches him mid-leap and returns them to 2004. Refusing to testify, Atwood is sentenced to death and returned to 1929 to complete his fatal fall. Walker and Matuzak agree McComb is a criminal, but need solid evidence.

Surviving an ambush by McComb’s henchmen, Walker is assigned a new partner, TEC rookie Sarah Fielding. They are sent back to 1994 to investigate McComb, and witness a disagreement with his business partner Jack Parker over manufacturing a new computer chip. They are interrupted by McComb from 2004, who advises his younger self that the chip will become highly profitable. The older McComb warns his younger self that they must not touch because the same matter cannot occupy the same space, then kills Parker. Fielding turns on Walker, revealing she works for McComb. After a shootout with McComb's henchmen, Fielding is wounded and Walker escapes back to 2004.

Arriving in an altered future where McComb is a wealthy presidential frontrunner and has shut down the TEC, Walker appeals to Matuzak, who has no knowledge of the changes to history. They realize that the original time machine prototype was never dismantled and that McComb has access, allowing him to neutralize the TEC. Matuzak sends Walker back to the past to restore history, and is shot by agents of the now-corrupt TEC.

Back in 1994, Walker finds Fielding in the hospital. She agrees to testify against McComb, but is murdered in her room. At the hospital, Walker finds a record of a recent visit by Melissa, discovering she was pregnant. Realizing she will be killed that night, he finds her and reveals himself to be from the future, and she agrees to make sure his younger self stays home.

That night, the younger Walker is attacked just as before by McComb's men, but is unknowingly aided by his older self. McComb from 2004 takes Melissa hostage and confronts the older Walker with the bomb that will blow up the house, knowing he will die in the ensuing explosion but satisfied his younger self will become president with Walker gone. However, Walker reveals he has lured the younger McComb to the house; he pushes them together, and the two McCombs merge into a writhing, screaming mass before disappearing from existence. The older Walker escapes with Melissa as the bomb explodes, leaving her beside his unconscious younger self and returning to the future.

Back in 2004, Walker finds the future changed once again: Matuzak and Fielding are alive with the TEC at full strength, while Senator McComb disappeared in 1994. Walker returns home to find Melissa alive and waiting for him, now with their young son.

Cast

Production

Mike Richardson wrote a three-part story titled "Time Cop: A Man Out of Time" that was included in the launch of the Dark Horse Comics anthology series in 1992.[4] Richardson developed the story, while the comic was written by Mark Verheiden and drawn by Ron Randall. The comic told a story of Max Walker, a Time Enforcement Commission agent whose wife is implied to be dead (though the circumstances of this are unknown). Max pursues an illegal time traveler robbing a South African diamond mine in the 1930s. After capturing the robber and returning to present time, Walker realizes the timeline has been damaged because the criminal's robotic bodyguard remained in the past and was still active. Walker returns to the 1930s and defeats the robot with the help of a local whom he rewards with a diamond. Returning home, the timeline is largely restored but readers see the local became a political leader who helped end Apartheid.

Richardson and Verheiden then teamed up to write the screenplay for the movie adaptation.[4]

It wasn’t at all planned from the beginning that I would make two films with Jean-Claude Van Damme back-to-back. I was approached to do Timecop, and I loved the auspices. (Producer) Larry Gordon was involved with it; Moshe Diamant was a terrific producer; Sam Raimi was involved... It was a really clever story, and I thought it was a chance to make the best movie Van Damme ever made. I said yes and we made it, and it was clear that it was going to be a hit because it previewed through the roof every time. It’s still his biggest hit. So Universal and Moshe Diamant wanted to team us again as soon as possible, so they put Sudden Death together. There was never any question that we would just do Timecop 2. I would never have agreed to that. The last thing you want to do is repeat yourself. That would be awful.

— Peter Hyams, Empire Magazine[5]

Music

The musical score of Timecop was composed by Mark Isham and conducted by Ken Kugler.

Soundtrack

Track listing

1. "Time Cop" – 2:20
2. "Melissa" – 2:41
3. "Blow Up" – 2:12
4. "Lasers and Tasers" – 4:23
5. "Polaroid" – 6:10
6. "Rooftop" – 6:16
7. "C4" – 2:37
8. "Rescue and Return" – 3:22

Release

Home media

Timecop was first released on VHS on February 21, 1995, LaserDisc on February 28, 1995,[6] and later released on DVD January 20, 1998. The DVD extras include production notes, a theatrical trailer and notes on the cast and crew.

By 2010, the rights to the film had reverted to Largo successor InterMedia, and distribution shifted to Warner Home Video. A Blu-ray of the film was released as a double feature for both this and Bloodsport from Warner Home Video on September 14, 2010, which has the full uncut 98-minute version in 2.35:1 widescreen, but no extra features.

Reception

Box office

Timecop was released in the U.S. on September 16, 1994, where it opened at the number 1 spot with $12,064,625 from 2,228 theaters, and a $5,415 average per theater.[7][8] In its second week, it took the top spot again with $8,176,615.[9] It finished its run with $45 million in the U.S. In other territories, it grossed about $57 million, for a total worldwide gross of $101 million.[3] This makes it Van Damme's highest-grossing film in which he played the leading role, and his second to make over $100 million overall (after Universal Soldier).

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 42% rating based on 45 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. The site's consensus is: "It's no Terminator, but for those willing to suspend disbelief and rational thought, Timecop provides limited sci-fi action rewards."[10] On Metacritic it has a score of 48% based on reviews from 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[11] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[12]

Critics were mixed on Timecop, citing its various plot holes and inconsistencies.[13] Roger Ebert called Timecop a low-rent Terminator.[14] Richard Harrington of The Washington Post said, "For once, Van Damme's accent is easier to understand than the plot."[15] David Richards of The New York Times disparaged Van Damme's acting and previous films but called Timecop "his classiest effort to date".[16]

The film made Entertainment Weekly's "Underrated Films" list in November 2010, mostly because of Van Damme's acting.[17]

Novelization

In September 1994, a novelization of the film was written by author S.D. Perry was published by Penguin.[18]

Sequel and franchise

The film was followed by a TV series of the same name, running for nine episodes in 1997 on ABC.[19] It starred T.W. King as Jack Logan and Cristi Conaway as Claire Hemmings.

A direct-to-DVD sequel, Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision, was released in 2003, starring Jason Scott Lee and Thomas Ian Griffith, and directed by Steve Boyum.[20] In 2010, Universal Pictures announced a remake of the film, to be written by Mark and Brian Gunn.[21][22][23]

The film, which was originally based on a comic, was adapted into a two-issue comic book series of the same name. A game based on the movie was developed by Cryo Interactive and released on the SNES in 1995.[24] Additionally, a series of tie-in novels by author Dan Parkinson published in 1997–1999 featured the Jack Logan character from the television series.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Timecop at IMDb
• Timecop at AllMovie
• Timecop at the TCM Movie Database
• Timecop at Box Office Mojo

На других языках

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[de] Timecop

Timecop ist ein US-amerikanischer Action-Thriller aus dem Science-Fiction-Genre. Gedreht wurde er 1994 unter der Regie von Peter Hyams mit Jean-Claude Van Damme in der Hauptrolle. Er basiert auf einem 1992 von Mike Richardson und Mark Verheiden verfassten Comic. Der Film startete am 16. September 1994 in den US-amerikanischen Kinos, am 24. November 1994 in den deutschen Kinos.

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- [en] Timecop

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[es] Timecop

Timecop es una película estadounidense de acción y ciencia ficción de 1994 dirigida por Peter Hyams y coescrito por Mike Richardson y Mark Verheiden. Richardson también se desempeñó como productor ejecutivo. La película está basada en Timecop, una historia creada por Richardson, escrita por Verheiden y dibujada por Ron Randall, que apareció en el cómic de antología Dark Horse Comics, publicado por Dark Horse Comics. Con el paso de los años Timecop ha mantenido un gran seguimiento entre los aficionados del género de la ciencia ficción, y se ha convertido en una película de culto.

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[ru] Патруль времени (фильм, 1994)

«Патруль времени» (англ. Timecop, дословно на русский язык — «Временной полицейский») — фантастический боевик 1994 года режиссёра Питера Хайамса. Экранизация одноимённого комикса Марка Верайдена, выпущенного издательством «Dark Horse». Первый фильм с участием Жан-Клода Ван Дамма, собравший в прокате более 100 миллионов долларов.[1] За фильмом последовал телесериал с тем же названием, но другим актёрским составом.

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