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Universal Soldier: The Return is a american film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 20 august 1999 with Jean-Claude Van Damme
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
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Add to a movie listUniversal Soldier: The Return is a 1999 American science fiction action film directed by Mic Rodgers in his directorial debut. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Bill Goldberg, Heidi Schanz, Kiana Tom and Xander Berkeley. The film was released in the United States on August 20, 1999. This was Jean-Claude Van Damme's last theatrical release film until 2008's JCVD.
It is the second theatrical film in the Universal Soldier series, following two made-for-TV movies, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business. The film was received with highly negative reviews and was a box-office bomb. Subsequent films in the series ignore the events of The Return and contradict it in some places throughout the series; today it is no longer considered part of the series' canon.
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Seven years after the events in the first film, Luc Deveraux (Van Damme), now an ordinary human, is a technical expert who is working with the government with his partner Maggie (Kiana Tom), who has been through countless hours of combat training with him, in order to refine and perfect the UniSol program in an effort to make a new, stronger breed of soldier that is more sophisticated and intelligent to reduce the use of normal, human soldiers in the battlefield. All of the new UniSols, which are faster and stronger than the original UniSols, are connected through an artificially intelligent computer system called S.E.T.H. (voice of Michael Jai White), a Self-Evolving Thought Helix.Actors
Jean-Claude Van Damme
(Luc Devereux)
Michael Jai White
(SETH)
Xander Berkeley
(Dr. Dylan Cotner)
Justin Lazard
(Captain Blackburn)
Karis Paige Bryant
(Hillary Deveraux, la fille de Luc)
Universal Soldier Series
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