Product Details

• Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, Mary Page Keller, John Beck, Tava Smiley
• Directors: Steve Boyum
• Writers: Gary Scott Thompson, Mark Verheiden, Mike Richardson
• Producers: Chris Taylor, Gary Scott Thompson, Joseph P. Genier, Mike Elliott
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: September 30, 2003
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000AYJYL
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #366,569 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Suprisingly good, October 27, 2003

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The Bus (NC, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timecop 2 (DVD)

Although I believe this was a straight to video release, it really doesn't look it. The special effects are good, and the film quality is also top notch. It's been quite a few years since I saw the original timecop, but I'm sure that this one is exponentially better. Jason Scott Lee is great as the hero of the film, combining humor, drama, and martial arts.

Basically, there are those who believe that if it were possible to travel back in time, and change things for the better, then it should be done, regardless of what changes may occur in the present. If you could go back in time and kill hitler before the world war, would you? That is the premise in this film. It's easy to say that you shouldn't change history, unless it affects you personally.

Jason Scott Lee kills the wife of the bad guy, and so the bad guy decides to travel back in time and wipe out the existance of the entire time cop agency. And so, he must be stopped. But in the end, it's surprising how exactly the bad guy is stopped. I'll leave it at that. Check it out. A good renter.

It's left wide open for additional time cop films, which would be interesting to see. However, nothing is left unanswered or unfinished.

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than I had expected!, August 5, 2004

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maxmasa31 "maxmasa31" (Honolulu, HI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timecop 2 (DVD)

Okay, I decided on this movie after a bit of apprehension. I mean, the only reasons I even considered watching it was because: 1. Jason Scott Lee is from Hawaii (like me) 2. We both went to the same high school (really!) 3. I always try to support Asian American actors, even if they don't usually get good roles.

So, with that in mind, I really wasn't expecting much. In fact, I thought it would be worse than the Van Damme original, which, although one of his better movies, was still a waste of a couple of hours of my life. I mean, straight to DVD sequel could never match a big-budget Hollywood movie, right? Well, I'm glad to say I was wrong. This is actually a pretty darned decent movie--better than the original, that's for sure.

Thomas Ian Griffith and Jason Scott Lee are both great. Their roles are complex, as there is a lot of grey area in terms of their being good and evil, but I thought they handled it well. Unfortunately, I still had some trouble seeing JSL as anything other than Bruce Lee in "Dragon," which wasn't helped by his fight scenes, where he still looks like the Dragon.

Special effects were your typical Sci-Fi Channel stuff, nothing to write home about. Costumes and sets seemed a bit forced in period scenes, so it didn't come across as very natural, but, hey, like I said, Sci-Fi Channel stuff. In general, the acting was very good, all things considered, with only a few actors coming up lame (see Tava Smiley who is hot, but couldn't act her way out of a paper bag).

The action sequences were kind of forced into the script (some of it didn't seem terribly necessary), but when it happens, JSL and TIG are great. And while JSL is great in his fight scenes, it was kind of sad to think that he'll be relegated to these kinds of roles because of his ethnicity. And while he does need some range to pull off this role, not much acting is required, and he is a better actor than this movie allows him to be. TIG, of course, is a wonderful villain...now if you could only get his role from "The Karate Kid" out of your head...

I actually enjoyed the story, as I like time travel movies, and while it can be bewildering figuring out what's going on as the characters jump back and forth in time, the main idea of the movie--If we could go back in time, should we be/are we morally obligated to right the wrongs of the past?--comes through.

If you're going to watch this expecting a Hollywood summer blockbuster movie, you will be sorely disappointed. If you love the Sci-Fi Channel, like I do, and want to watch a grade "A" b-movie, this is it! The cast is great, the story interesting and the action entertaining. Adjusted for the kind of movie it is (straight to DVD), I give it a solid four stars. A pleasant surprise and one of the best direct to video movies I've ever seen.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awsome Story!!!!!! Bad Editing, Script and Directing, June 24, 2004

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xaq "xaq_bazit" (usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timecop 2 (DVD)

I am going to have to disagree with most of the other reviews on here, by saying that it was awesome. But to do so I must use evidence, so if you haven't seen the movie I am going to tell my favorite parts, which may ruin it for you.
I rented it looking for martial arts, which was good, but `I think' ruined by the directing and editing. If you are looking for martial arts and Jason Scott Lee "The Dragon" blows it away!

Reasons to like Time Cop 2: The Berlin Decision

Yes it has a bad script, editing and directing, but some of the ideas presented are very cool and have never been presented in a movie before (to my knowledge.)

-When the Bad Guy from the future comes back to kill the good guy of the past so that he can stop him from killing his wife in the future, the good guy takes the bad guy from the past hostage and threatens to kill him-which would kill the bad guy of the future and stop him from killing the good guy of the past. Something I thought was very cool.

-When the good and bad guy from the future disappear at the end, it was because the fight they had in front of their former selves had such a profound impact that their former selves chose a different line of work. Which means that the fight never happened but did. Weird but cool!

-And even though its been done before they have the good and bad guys both fighting for a cause that the viewer can relate to. Its very "gray" as they say, and I'm still not sure who I would of sided with. They ask some questions like

-if you could have killed Hitler before he started the holocaust, would you? If you did maybe someone else would step up and done even a more horrible thing, inspired by his death?
Or if you could have stopped the 9/11 bombers, would you? If you did would Airport security not be stepped up, and an even worse thing happened?

This is one of those movies that kind of snowballs into a really great movie. It starts off okay and you think it's just a sequel to get the old fans back, but becomes a great movie in and of itself.