10 Best Movies Based On Dark Horse Comics
4. Timecop
Who would’ve thought that Jean Claude Van Damme’s most commercially successful picture would be based on a three-issue comic book? There’s certainly more story here than JCVD fans are used to, and the director is Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, End Of Days) so it’s slickly shot and choreographed.
In the not too distant future – well, 2004 – a corrupt Senator sends a henchman back in time in order to illegally profit from the 1929 stock market crash, money he intends to use to finance a Presidential campaign. Only JCVD, an agent for the Time Enforcement Commission, can stop him, although considering where the world was at in 2004, he probably didn’t complete the mission.
Timecop is a perfect example of the kind of movie Hollywood no longer knows how to make – an R-rated, modestly budgeted action movie that gets everything said and done in under 100 minutes without too much brooding by the leads.
At no point do we get a noisy, overextended scene where the sets are destroyed for the sake of creating an elaborate effects sequence and refreshingly, the characters all have a sense of humour. On the minus side, Van Damme reteamed with Hyams for Sudden Death the following year.