Universal Soldier: Regeneration

UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: REGENERATION (2009) - Mar. 6, 2010
A mediocre film about a group of Russian terrorists who, with the help of an advanced Universal Soldier, take over a nuclear reactor and start making demands.  The film was decently directed and featured reasonably high production values for a straight-to-video action movie; my main problem with it was that it didn't really bother developing any characters to the point where we care about any of them, and that the action was (for the most part) fairly dull.  It occurred to me about half-way through that the reason why the action wasn't really working was that the evil Universal Soldier was so over-powered that most of the fights were ridiculously one-sided, which is an easy way to drain any excitement out of an action sequence.  Though there was some decent action towards the end, including a pretty spectacular show-down between Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren that definitely had all of the energy and excitement that most of the film was lacking.  Oh well.  **