Sorry but this was a major let down. I watched it based on other reviews and thought it was going to compare to the Jean Claud van damn first film, which it really didn't. Jason Scott Lee still seems to be acting as Bruce Lee with a set of half a dozen moves. But the main problem with the film was that the storyline was just too messy. Little if any of it made any sense. Why go back to 1940, a year after the war started to try and stop it? And why did JSL feel it was necessary to stop the killing or Hitler? Shooting the girl made no sense as he could have gone back before this time and prevented the shooting of Hitler that way. The Jean Claud Van damn film was full of suspense and intrigue. This one was like a child's version.

In the future, men are capable of traveling in time. The basic rule is that nobody can change the past. The timecops make the surveillance, trying to avoid any change in the past. Ryan Chan (Jason Scott Lee) is one of the best agents. With this good premise, `Timecop: The Berlin Decision' could be a good movie. The problem is that, when dealing with time travel, the screenplay has to be very consistent. This story has so many flaws, that looks like a Suisse cheese. However, if the viewer does not think too much about the lack of coherence in the plot, this movie may be a reasonable entertainment. The Brazilian DVD does not provide any extra. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): `Timecop 2 – O Guardião do Tempo' (`Timecop 2 – The Guardian of Time')

Time travel has always been my absolute favourite sci-fi sub-genre (with "post-apocalyptic" a close second) and so I actually shelled out my hard-earned cash last weekend to buy this movie.I got round to watching it tonight and am writing this review with mixed feelings. The title "The Berlin Decision" and the cover blurb led me to believe that most of the story would involve the main protagonists travelling back in time to Nazi Germany, with that era being the focus of the film. I figured that would be the basis for a very interesting and exciting movie. Unfortunately though, the Nazi Germany part of the film takes up only a few minutes at the beginning of the film, and after that - just like in the Van Damme original "Timecop" - the characters spend most of their time in the movie's present (2025) and recent past (2002) ... in other words almost the present day now, which to me seriously reduces a movie's "time travel" feel (the same major beef that I had with the vastly over-rated "Quantum Leap" TV show).I also thought that the whole thing was rather rushed - it tries to be too clever for its own good, and while it does throw up some interesting paradox questions, the plot moves at such a rapid pace that the viewer has little time to ponder them, and the whole thing just gets confusing and not a little messy in places. No attempt is made to explain or resolve any of the numerous paradoxes that arise, and in the end the best thing to do is just ignore them and try and get the best of the movie for what it is. Many potentially interesting questions arise that are left unanswered, such as what exactly was the "war" that resulted from the past being changed, and when Chan (the main character) arrives back in the alternate 2025 (in which his boss sports an eye patch and the female doctor a purple punk hairdo), what happens to his alternate self - the one who has presumably lived though the changed timeline? Is he somehow "displaced" by "our" Chan?? We never find out, and this fundamental question is simply ignored.That said, this film does have a few positives. The time travel sequences back to the Old West and Nazi Germany are fairly interesting, if a little short. There's a fairly gruesome bit where one of the timecops arrives back in the lab fused together with his younger self and hideously deformed - a result of him having made physical contact with himself (in a continuity nod to the original "Timecop" movie, this was described as being a potential problem for time travellers in that film). And some of the martial arts sequences are pretty good, if you like that sort of thing.Summary: Not great, but I've seen worse sequels and I'll probably dig this out again at some point and give it another go - maybe I've missed some of the subtleties.

Jason Lee's pecks are back! If that's what you are looking for, look no further. If not, better move on...But about the movie. Clichés galore, some poorly shot but kinda exotic fight scenes (used JKD) and lots of bad acting & cheap effects. Poor Lee looks like he's in pain throughout the movie, and no wonder. Not a pleasant comeback.The movie doesn't even cut it as a B-movie - sure, there was a Germanish bleached blonde Rutger-wannabe bad guy, but no gratuitous sex scene or even a single booty shots. None. Zip. Nada. Even in Starship Troopers 2 they had the common sense to include the mandatory nudie scenes (as for rest of my comments on that excellent piece of classic cinema excellence, please refer to our upcoming review on that mind-blowing sequel...). I did get the feeling that the writer was taking his revenge on somebody with this - thus I won't get into the "plot" of the movie or pretty much anything else related. Except that it did have some non-heterosexual overtones, so 'nuff said.However, this movie has one thing going for it - no Jean-Claude :)