I like that Scott Adkins is stepping up into the action star genre of films - that seems to be lost to digital artistry these days. It’s sad he gets such crappy screenplays. This whole film could have been better with a little better screenwriting. JCVD pretty much phoned this one in. He should have included something from this movie in his Van Johnson series. There were some horrendous scenes that you need to just laugh at how bad they were.

I didn't understand this movie at all.

If this is your first Universal Soldier movie, don't be put off. In many ways, I was disappointed to see van Damme and Lundgren in this. Apart from large sweaty men in crazy grunting fights, it bore little resemblance to the original. But if you like hard to decipher plots (strange because there isn't much of a story line here), lots of poor lighting, flash backs and annoying music, all enhanced by completely unnecessary strobe lighting effects, this could be the movie for you.

Well I think that the first one was better than its general evaluation and was watchable for fans of the genre. This one is just, at best, below average more of the same, without what made the first one Ok. For fans only.

If you like action movies then just ignore the "universal soldier" in title and you will enjoy this. [+] good fighting scenes [+/-?] maybe too much gore for its genre [-] stroboscopes everywhere [-] unfitting music