Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
Chosen by me whilst at my parents by turning on the teevee
and finding the first movie that had jut started.
Almost, almost really really good.
It strips out any sense of extraneous character stuff. Providing a bare bones narrative that is literally just an excuse for the next fight to happen.
And despite being incredibly cheap (there's essentially two locations) manages to be shot well and is an efficient tale with just enough weirdo personality to keep it interesting.
It never quite plays the way you think it will, the 'ultimate rematch' as the cover has it is a good, brutal take down with an amazingly silly over the top death but is given no weight dramatically, as neither Lundgren nor Van Damme appear to have the history given to them in the first film, which plays into the films odd tone as these are just pawns built to kill and nothing more.
Not quite a hidden classic but a solid and fun B movie better than it had any need to be.
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