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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
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2013
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Positive Reviews
26
Negative reviews
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2.8
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3.0
So gruelingly violent you half wonder if director John Hyams goal is to make the audience get up and leave the theater rather than be party to the bru ..
EW
4.5
Its as if David Lynch collided with a truckload of martial artists and brawlers, and the resulting explosion created this strange, moody universe, ful ..
Common Sense Media
3.0
Closer to No Country for Old Men than the supercharged 80s era testosterone throwdowns preceding it, Day of Reckoning cuts deep.
Indie Wire
4.5
The grand finale is a series of what appear to be single take sequences of bone breaking, bullet blasting violence, almost all of it presented with a ..
Variety
3.3
But despite the fact that the filmmakers are taking this series in a different direction, it doesnt change the fact that the film is slow and dull in ..
We Got This Covered
3.0
Its almost worth wading through the wearisome setup to get to the fun stuff.
Time Out
2.5
Like a stiff Schwarzeneggerian conqueror making good on an Ill be back, John Hyams returns to one up the franchise again.
1.5
In this era of hyper kinetic editing and blurry montages, theyre a refreshing throwback.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
As with all the films in the Universal Soldier series, this is mostly a catalog of increasingly brutal fights, which are the main attraction in and of ..
3.0
An entertaining Universal Soldier movie that dares to try something different.
IGN
3.0
a waking sleep zombification that cant exactly be described as pleasurable but definitely has an odd, distinct power.
2.0
Anyone who stumbles into Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning unprepared is bound to leave shellshocked. Not just because of the movies brutal violence ..
Ny Daily News
1.5
The tone shift from the first films mandroid commando battle bots to Hyamss bleak reminder of mans brain splattering mortality is a gear grinding tran ..
Village Voice
2.0
Its a bad trip LSD like movie you either love or hate, no in between.
Sover
2.0
Hyams aims to bring a Heart of Darkness overlay to the proceedings, which is an inspired choice, especially for a movie series that once offered itsel ..
Blu Ray
1.5
I found the level of violence in the film repugnant and most of the characters irredeemable, disposable and forgettable. They arent particularly brigh ..
Lariat
4.5
Day of Reckoning is an action movie thats as much about each frame as it is about each punch and thwack and gunshot, not to mention that devastating b ..
Pop Matters
3.1
An arty action flick thats almost worth watching. The odds of director John Hyams pulling off such a feat were only slightly worse than winning Powerb ..
News Day
3.8
An intensity of purpose and a patient, suspenseful directing style make the B movie Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning superior to most of the big bu ..
New York Post
1.5
After five previous movies in the franchise, it may be time to lay down the weapons.
Film Journal International ..
1.5
Several sequences of this gorefest, which is posed between hyperkinetic martial arts mayhem and near static moments of confusion and terror, have a gl ..
New Yorker
3.3
It might have been an afterthought in Van Dammes filmography if not for the fact that it wound up being the first high profile project for future spec ..
The Atlantic
3.0
Director John Hyamss competent direction cant compensate for the films by committee travesty of a script.
Coles Mithey
1.5
If you want a few well done fights and you like Adkins, I cant completely recommend against it.
Hit Fix
3.5
A throwback to a time when gratuitous nudity was the only kind of nudity, and when being a man meant dismembering another man
Boxoffice Magazine
3.5
Viewers may laugh, but more at the audacity of the gore rather than any kind of silliness.
Ner Dist
1.5
An hour into the film its still no clearer exactly what is supposed to be going on.
3.5
This isnt the classiest material in the world, and it wasnt made with the biggest of budgets or the most accommodating of schedules.
Screen Crush
3.0
This bloody wallow in sweat, guns and fisticuffs for those who swing that way delivers.
Ny Times
1.5
The movie succeeds as a savage and incoherent hallucination. As a story, not so much.
Io9 Gizmodo
4.5
Hyams has created a truly unique object, a horror action flicker film about uniquely expressive bodies haunted by the minds and memories they are forc ..
Film Comment
1.5
Its a bad trip LSD like movie you either love or hate, no in between.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
2.5
Day of Reckoning, for lack of a better expression, goes there. But like the flight plan of a hijacked plane, its not necessarily my destination of cho ..
Crave Online
1.0
Aside from perhaps Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgrens accountants, its difficult to say for sure who exactly has been calling for another entry ..
No La
2.0
Finally, the movie just doesnt know when to end as it runs just seven minutes short of two hours.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
4.5
A B movie thats often bloody, sometimes bizarre, but rarely boring.
Film.com
4.5
An overly violent mess of gory revenge, kill crazy rampages in a day glo UniSol brothel, and an awesome brain drilling scene. Insane, esoteric, weirdl ..
2.3
Van Damme, gloriously off kilter in that picture, is a study of coiled restraint in Oreo cookie Apocalypse Now face paint; Lundgren might be at his ca ..
Movie Line
1.5
Its a far cry from what Van Damme and Lundgren were doing twenty years ago, but in the end this film comes off like a band that claims all of the righ ..
Reel Times: Reflections on ..
3.5
The director of sequel #2, Regeneration, John Hyams, returns for Day of Reckoning with an entirely fresh perspective on UniSol lore.
Screen Space(Squarespace)
2.5
Id say this film hates women, but thats too limiting. It hates everyone.
Rotten Tomatoes
4.5
The closure Day of Reckoning offers Adkins character is as bleak and challenging a worldview as youll find in a contemporary American film.
Mubi
1.3
Universal soldiers, it seems, never die, even if they deserve a slow and deliberate farewell.
Rss Feeds Usa Today
0.5
Earns its stripes as one of those bad movies thats so bad its good, in its bad way.
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) ..
4.5
When it sticks to the fights, the thugs, and the attitude, its a pretty good time.
FEARnet
4.5
For a film that should feel as if it came off a conveyer belt, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning may struggle with its origins as much as its charac ..
Moveable Fest
3.1
A bloody free for all so gruesome, it makes Peckinpah look like Winnie the Pooh.
Aalbc It
4.5
Day Of Reckoning is one of the most ambitious, experimental, and downright fascinating B movie genre pieces I have seen in years.
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