![]() The movie, filmed in Hong Kong, was so bad when it was completed, it was shelved for almost two years. Then one day, while walking on the streets, Jean-Claude spotted a producer for Cannon Pictures and showed some of his martial arts abilities which led to a role in Bloodsport (1988). In 1984, he got his first significant role as a villain named Ivan in the low-budget movie, No Retreat, No Surrender (1986). Norris gave van Damme a small role in the movie Missing in Action (1984), but it wasn't good enough to get anybody's attention. He took English classes while working as carpet layer, pizza delivery man, limo driver, and thanks to Chuck Norris he got a job as a bouncer at a club. He came to Hong Kong at the age of 19 for the first time and felt insured to do action movies in Hong Kong. Jean-Claude posted a 18-1 (18 knockouts) kickboxing record, and a semi-contact record of 41-4. Jean-Claude retired from martial arts in 1982, following a knockout over Nedjad Gharbi in Brussels, Belgium. In 1976 at the age of sixteen, Jean-Claude started his Martial Arts fight career. His goal was to be number one but got sidetracked when he left his hometown of Brussels. He won the European professional karate association's middleweight championship as a teenager, and also beat the 2nd best karate fighter in the world. Van Damme trained for 4 years and earned a spot on the Belgium Karate Team. At the age of 12, van Damme began his martial arts training at Centre National De Karate (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Master Claude Goetz in Ixelles, Belgium. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was physically weak. “The Muscles from Brussels” started martial arts at the age of eleven. ![]() “Timecop” is currently available on tubi (ads) and for rent on Amazon Prime.Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène van Varenberg, an accountant. However, Ron Silver’s performance as Senator McComb steals the show as he chews up every scene he is in playing the power-hungry and sinister villain who knows all about the top secret time traveling revelations.ĭirected by Peter Hyams, who previously helmed “Outland,” “2010,” “Running Scared” and “Narrow Margin” and would go on to direct Van Damme again in “Sudden Death” the following year, “Timecop” is a fun movie that surprisingly has not been rebooted or turned into a 10-episode Netflix series yet.Īlthough if it was rebooted, I would definitely watch. ![]() Mia Sara (Sloan Peterson from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) does a good job as Melissa, Walker’s wife who we meet at while she is walking around the mall waiting to break the news to her husband that they are having a baby. While “Timecop” originates from the Dark Horse Comics, it is perhaps better known for being the highest grossing movie in Van Damme’s action career that includes such hits as “Bloodsport” “Lionheart” and “Universal Soldier.” Walker’s return to 1994 sets in motion his battle against McComb and gives him an outside chance and changing history and saving his wife. Now under investigation from Internal Affairs for his ties to Atwood, Walker is assigned a new partner, TEC rookie Sarah Fielding, and together they are sent back to 1994 to investigate McComb. When confronted by Walker, Atwood admits to working for Senator McComb, who is using his position and access to time travel technology to go back in time and raise funds for his upcoming presidential campaign. Ten years later, Walker is a veteran of the TEC, which sends him back to October 1929 to prevent his former partner, Lyle Atwood, from using knowledge of the future to financially benefit from the U.S. Walker witnesses the house explode, killing Melissa inside. That night, he receives an emergency call and is ambushed while leaving home he and his wife, Melissa (Mia Sara), are viciously attacked by unknown assailants. ![]() Later that day, DC Metro Police officer Max Walker (Van Damme) is offered a position with the TEC but debates whether to accept it. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the top secret project with Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) to chair the oversight committee and Eugene Matuzak (Bruce McGill) selected as the TEC’s first commissioner. “ Timecop” starring Jean Claude Van Damme as an officer for Time Enforcement Commission, whose sole purpose of policing time travel is a perfect companion piece to fans of the Arnold Schwarzenegger hits “Terminator” and “Total Recall.”
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