Timecop

by Mark Verheiden, directed by Peter Hyams

Agent Van Damme (aka Agent Walker) of the Time Enforcement Commission goes back in time to blow lots of stuff up in hopes of saving his already-blown-up wife.

— Michael Main

I can’t tell you anything. He’ll send somebody back to wipe out my grandparents. It’ll be like I’ve never existed. My mother, my father, my wife, my kids, my fucking cat.

Timecop by Mark Verheiden, directed by Peter Hyams (at movie theaters, USA, 16 September 1994).

Timecop II

Timecop: The Berlin Decision

by Gary Scott Thompson, directed by Steve Boyum

Time Enforcement Commission agent (and martial arts expert) Ryan Chang chases through time after rogue agent Brandon Miller who’s off killing ancestors of other agents so there’ll be nobody to stop him from what he sees as a moral obligation to right the wrongs of past timelines (but no obligation to fill the holes in the current plotline).

Despite my reservations, fellow-indexer Tandy, a martial arts afficionada, enjoyed the movie a lot (only partly because she’s in love with Jason Scott Lee), and it is true that even my favorite time-travel movies have some of the same plot holes as this one. In the end, it was a fun romp even for me.

— Michael Main

Drop the gun or your timeline is over.

Timecop: The Berlin Decision by Gary Scott Thompson, directed by Steve Boyum (direct-to-video, USA, 30 September 2003).

Mark Verheiden

writer, creator