{"id":16363,"date":"2024-04-12T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16363"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:19:10","slug":"universal-soldier-day-of-reckoning-2012-john-hyams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16363","title":{"rendered":"Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012, John Hyams)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s this idea going around on Vulgar Auteurism Twitter that some godforsaken JCVD\/Dolph Lundgren action series got revived in the 2010s by the son of the director of <em>Timecop<\/em>, starring the 12th-billed actor in <em>Expendables 2<\/em>, as a straight-to-video 3D (?) fifth sequel shot entirely in nondescript strip-mall locations, and it was actually great.  Still buzzed off <em>The Doom Generation<\/em>, I watched it to set the record straight, and it was actually great.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/univsold1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Not a normal DTV sequel &#8211; dank Damon Packard vibes, the scenes linger weirdly, the strobe effects more intense.  Apparently I was supposed to watch <em>Regeneration<\/em> first to make any sense out of this.  Scott Adkins&#8217; family is killed in first-person oner-cam by culty home invaders.  Evil plumber Magnus is freed by Dolph Lundgren in a red Mario hat, prompting a strobey JCVD appearance in a strip club bathroom and a full-house slaughter.  Scott Adkins finally comes alive and destroys the plumber, then meets mystery woman Mariah Bonner and another Scott Adkins who works for JCVD, and learns we&#8217;re all clones who never had families.  Murderous rages are flown into, everyone dies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/univsold2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Goldhaber decodes it: &#8220;A movie about a man trapped inside of a genre movie, programmed with a stock motivation.&#8221;  More from <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/josephinegloria\/film\/universal-soldier-day-of-reckoning\/reviews\/\">Josephine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/thejoshl\/film\/universal-soldier-day-of-reckoning\/reviews\/\">Josh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s this idea going around on Vulgar Auteurism Twitter that some godforsaken JCVD\/Dolph Lundgren action series got revived in the 2010s by the son of the director of Timecop, starring the 12th-billed actor in Expendables 2, as a straight-to-video 3D (?) fifth sequel shot entirely in nondescript strip-mall locations, and it was actually great. Still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,3093,543,3237,2560,1115,3236,144,3139,181],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-clones","tag-cult","tag-dolph-lundgren","tag-false-memory","tag-jean-claude-van-damme","tag-john-hyams","tag-revenge","tag-scott-adkins","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16382,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions\/16382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}