Universal Soldier: Survival of the fittest
View(s):American science fiction thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme is now being screened at Majestic-cineplex, Colombo 4.
Directed by John Hyams, the narrates around a man (Scott Adkins) who awakens from a coma to discover his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in a home invasion. Haunted by images of the attack, he vows to kill the man responsible: Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), one of the original Universal Soldiers.
While John tries to piece his reality back together, things are complicated by a relentless UniSol named Magnus (Andrei Arlovski), who is determined to kill John. Meanwhile, Deveraux and surviving UniSol Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) are preparing to unleash anarchy and build a new order ruled by Unisols.
They are weeding out the weak and constantly testing their strongest warriors in brutal, life-and-death combat. Luc has emerged operating the Unisol Church of Eventualism, taking in wayward Unisols whom the government has been secretly operating as remote-controlled sleeper agents.
His mission is to liberate these Unisols from the implanted memories and the lies the government has inserted in them. As John gets closer to Deveraux and the rogue army of genetically enhanced warriors, he discovers more about himself and begins to call into question everything he believed to be true.
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