Van Damme and Lundgren are both pretty good in this.

Van Damme and Lundgren are both pretty good in this.Released in the Mario Kassar days of high adventure when an action movie refused to shy away from brains splattered on the wall and hypodermic needles being shoved with great prejudice through someone's cheek Universal Soldier pitted two up-and-coming mid-level smackdown stars against each other in a fun, far-out adventure spanning flyover country. Action set-pieces involve the opening Hoover Dam assault, featuring an objectively cool rappel down the face of the dam, a huge chase between the futuristic Unisol super-truck and a prison bus across the Grand Canyon and, last but certainly not least, the one-on-one bout between Devreaux and Scott that had been built up to the entire film, culminating in one of my all-time Final Bad Guy Death Scenes and sporting not one but two awesome one-liners.