8. Timecop
A serviceable Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle in the early 90s which is shorthand for awesome in a just plain awful way Timecop concerns itself with a government agency who can time travel in the futuristic world of 2004(!) and the clandestine machinations of shady politician. What follows is a simple bullets-and-brawn with an intriguing sideline in the effects of time travel. The premise for this film is awesome and features all kinds of insane time-jumps, from the American Civil War to the Wall Street Crash. But I would ask something why stop there? Time-travel is something akin to a Pandoras Box in two ways on the negative side, it can be difficult to make sense of the films internal structure, but on the positive, you can pretty much set your film anywhere, and do anything with it. So if any potential Timecop reboots were to acquire a decent writer with some imagination, god knows what they could achieve. After all, its the equivalent of a creative toybox they can go anywhere and do anything, giving the writer a sense of freedom unparalleled in any other project. If you can combine this with the presence of a big modern-day action star lets say Sam Worthington or Gina Carano you might just resurrect something beautiful. Timecop is already taking the first tentative steps toward a reboot after an announcement last May that Marc Shmuger was taking on the producer reins. We can only hope that it doesnt end up in development hell like all its other brethren from that era , because quite frankly, its too good an opportunity to miss.