Review – Universal Soldier

If this wasn’t a comic book before it became a movie, then it should have been. Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren duke it out as respectively good and evil escapees from a top secret government program to reanimate the corpses of Vietnam veterans and use them as over-muscled, zombified pawns in a crack commando unit. Though every once in a rare while the script manages an occasional amusing moment, for the most part it’s an excuse – and a weak one at that – for a lengthy parade of sweat-drenched martial arts and big explosions. See if desperate