Timecop 2 - decision in Berlin
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| German title | Timecop 2 - decision in Berlin |
| Original title | Timecop: The Berlin Decision |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Steve Boyum |
| script | Gary Scott Thompson |
| production | Mike Elliott |
| music | Andy Gray |
| camera | Crescenzo Notarile |
| cut | Tony Kadell |
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Timecop 2 - Decision in Berlin is an American action / science fiction film from 2003 directed by Steve Boyum with Jason Scott Lee in the lead role. It deals with time travel and is based on a popular comic book series by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden . The film never ran in theaters and was first released on DVD in the US on September 30, 2003 .
Relation to the film "Timecop"
As in the film Timecop , a police officer (a “Timecop”) of the “Time Enforcement Commission” (TEC) follows illegal interventions in the past.
In both films, the main character lost a family member to a murder before starting work, which in the course of the film turns out to be an illegal interference by the opponent in the past and can therefore be prevented. The characters in both films are completely different.
As in the film Timecop, there is a gold robbery in the past, an illegal time traveler is sentenced to immediate death by a special court and someone melts into their younger self when touched.
action
In 2025 the “Time Enforcement Commission” (TEC) will track illegal time travel into the past through Timecops. The "Organization for Historical Authenticity" monitors the authority and now competes with it. Its former chairman, Brandon Miller, used his power to intervene with his followers to correct the past. Timecop Ryan Chan exposed Miller's involvement in illegal time travel two years ago when he tried to kill Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1940 . Chan decided to shoot Miller's wife to save Hitler and arrested Miller. The "Organization for Historical Authenticity" is currently trying unsuccessfully to make Chan superfluous by using its own agents and to have him removed from the police force for alleged violations of the rules.
Chan suffers from his decision in Berlin, his traumatic memory fragments of the murder of his father in his childhood and from overwork. Some of the interventions in the flow of time are homemade: a timecop visits its younger self and both die after being touched by merging, reversing all of its arrests. Chan is therefore considering giving up his job. Miller breaks out during a riot in the "World Prison for Insane Criminals" and begins wiping out the timecops by murdering their ancestors in the past. When Chan becomes the last operational timecop, he sees a point in his job again and lets himself be sent back in time to prevent the prison riot. He only arrives after the outbreak of the uprising. Miller waits for him in his cell and offers to work with him. When Chan refuses, he is overpowered by a fellow inmate. Since it does not satisfy Miller to kill Chan without saving his wife, he leaves him alive and escapes from prison.
When Chan's return, the past and his team have changed, as there was no Second World War , but a later war. When he travels to the prison again in the past, it is completely empty. On his return he receives a watch with which he can follow Miller's interventions in the flow of time. When Miller mistakenly believed an Asian man to be Chan's ancestor in Springfield, USA, and murdered him, he was able to track him down. He can track Miller through time and prevent an ancestor and his parents from being murdered prior to conception. But he is shot at by Miller from a house roof. The clock catches the bullet and sends it back to the present. He realizes that his father was murdered by the time traveler Miller in 2002 at the University of Los Angeles because he wanted to protect him.
Chan can finally convince his team that he is mentally and physically capable of embarking on another journey through time. In 2002, his father gave a lecture on time travel that was also attended by 11-year-old Ryan Chan and young Brandon Miller. While Miller argues for corrective interventions in the past, Professor Chan warns of the possible consequences. Chan cannot prevent his father's murder. By holding the younger Miller hostage, he can prevent the murder of his younger self and make the older Miller throw away his weapon. He and the elder Miller have a brutal fight in front of onlookers. Chan successfully appeals to the younger Miller not to let the deeds happen. As a result, he ends up in the present a few hours earlier and no one but him can remember the conflict.
criticism
“The science fiction subject" time travel "only serves as a fleeting and hardly sustainable foil for impatiently staged martial arts effects in front of constantly changing scenery. That has its charms, but, like the only average actors, can hardly hide the thin plot. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timecop 2 - Decision in Berlin in the Lexikon des Internationale Films , accessed on May 21, 2009
Web links
- Timecop 2 - The Berlin Decision in the Internet Movie Database (English)