Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

...features plenty of crowd-pleasing fight scenes...

Folks who have a problem with onscreen flesh-hacking — or the fact that franchise stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren aren't in the movie all that much — should stay home.

...in Hyam's capable hands the Universal Soldier series will likely be Frankensteined back together again, living to die another day.

...introduction to John establishes this film’s remarkable thinking about its generic conventions.

The lesson of this unexpectedly potent kick of sci-fi strangeness: at the end of the day, big muscles just need to be flexed.