Movies - Timecop

	Movies - Timecop

Timecop (1994) is a science fiction thriller feature film directed by Peter Hyams.

Timecop stars Jean Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill and Mia Sara, set in the future where time travel is possible. Van Damme plays a Time Enforcement Agent, part of a specialized police organization. He is conflicted, because he knows it is possible to prevent his wife's death, but his job as a Time Enforcement Agent prevents him from acting on such a prevention.

Timecop is considered to be one of Van Damme's better films. The story is based on the comic book series created by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. Though still mostly an action film, Timecop still has interesting story elements.

Plot summary

Tagline: "Turn your back on the clock and you're history."

Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) Agent. Walker was once just an ordinary policeman who was one day offered the chance of a lifetime, to time travel and enforce it. This choice turns his life upside down and brings him into conflict with the corrupt Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver).

Prior to working at the TEC, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) was killed in a raid on their home which resulted in the house being destroyed in a huge explosion with Melissa inside. Max is constantly haunted by her memory and is also tormented by the idea that it is possible to save her by travelling back. However, changing the past would mean breaching his vow to protect the timeline from alteration through time travel.

On a mission to arrest his former partner, Lyle Atwood (Jason Schombing), Walker travels back to 1929 to discover Atwood using knowledge from the future to buy up large stocks, which will in the future be worth millions. After a brief fight with some hired thugs, whom Walker makes light work of, Walker confronts Atwood who reveals that he has been collecting money for Senator Aaron McComb who is gathering money to become the President of the United States. Atwood pleads with Walker to spare him, hinting that the two may have had a greater friendship; however, Walker responds with "I don't have a choice, I have to take you in". This theme of honor and duty is echoed throughout the movie, and eventually Walker concedes that he does have a choice. Atwood attempts suicide, but Walker saves him in the hope he will testify against McComb. Atwood stays quiet and is sentenced to death.

With the knowledge of a possibly corrupt senator, Walker is intent on finding out more. Accompanied by a new partner, Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben), he is given a mission to investigate a time fluctuation in 1994 at a computer factory. Also at the factory is a young Senator McComb. Walker infiltrates the facility just as a future version of Senator McComb arrives. The future McComb explains that the younger McComb needs to take over the company which owns the factory, as it will be worth billions in the future. Walker attempts to arrest the older McComb; however, he is double crossed by Fielding who reveals that she too is corrupt. A fight ensues as McComb escapes back into the future.

Walker returns to the future only to find that his organization, the TEC, is being decommissioned. Everything has changed, and only Walker knows what has happened. Realizing that it is the effect of McComb's interference, Walker knows there is only one more chance to go back before the time travel equipment is scrapped forever. After convincing his commander and friend Eugene Matuzak (Bruce McGill) that the prototype of the time travel equipment was never destroyed, Matuzak agrees to launch Walker back one last time, dying in the process.

Walker arrives back again in 1994. He now needs to contact Fielding, who is in the hospital after McComb shot her. Walker wants her to testify against McComb and eventually finds her. Fielding agrees and Walker says he needs something to prove she existed, as McComb may travel back and kill her family to prevent her birth. Walker finds Fielding's blood sample, but as well discovers his former wife's blood sample which indicates she is pregnant. Walker returns to Fielding, but he is too late: she has been murdered. Realizing that he was to be a father, Walker decides that he now must save his wife Melissa.

While at the mall searching for Melissa, Walker recognizes two of McComb's thugs and realizes that McComb must have made some changes to the past which caused the death of his wife. Walker confronts his wife and explains that he is a future version of her husband. Bewildered, Melissa agrees to help out the future Walker by playing along with the younger Walker.

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