Universal Soldier: The Return
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Original 1999 theatrical poster
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| Directed by | Mic Rodgers |
| Produced by |
Daniel Melnick Michael I. Rachmil Jean-Claude Van Damme Allen Shapiro |
| Written by |
William Malone John Fasano |
| Starring |
Jean-Claude Van Damme Michael Jai White Kiana Tom Daniel von Bargen Xander Berkeley and Bill Goldberg |
| Music by | Don Davis |
| Cinematography | Mike Benson |
| Edited by | Peck Prior |
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Long Road Entertainment
IndieProd Company Productions Baummgarten-Prophet Entertainment |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45 million |
| Box office | $10,717,421 |
Universal Soldier: The Return is a 1999 American science fiction action film directed by Mic Rodgers in his directorial debut, and written by William Malone and John Fasano. The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Bill Goldberg, Heidi Schanz, Kiana Tom and Xander Berkeley. The film was released in the United States on August 20, 1999. This was Jean-Claude Van Damme's last widely released film until 2012's The Expendables 2.
It is the second theatrical film in the Universal Soldier series, followed by two made-for-TV movies, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business. The film was received with highly negative reviews and was a box office bomb. Subsequent films in the series ignore the events of The Return and contradict it in some places throughout the series; as such it is no longer considered part of the series' canon.
Seven years after the events in the first film, Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), now an ordinary human after having had his cybernetic implants removed, is a technical expert who is working for the US government with his partner Maggie (Kiana Tom), who has been through countless hours of combat training with him, in order to refine and perfect the UniSol program in an effort to make a new, stronger breed of soldier that is more sophisticated and intelligent to reduce the use of normal, human soldiers in the battlefield. All of the new UniSols, which are faster and stronger than the original UniSols, are connected through an artificially intelligent computer system called S.E.T.H. (Self-Evolving Though Helix).
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