It was not the first Dark Horse Comics property to make it to film, as the popular Jim Carrey film The Mask was released earlier in 1994. It was a three-part tale published in late 1992 in the anthology series called Dark Horse Comics. The Timecop story was created by writer Mark Verheiden and Dark Horse Comics publisher Mike Richardson, both of who ended up writing the story and screenplay of the film. Audiences may also be familiar with some other non-superhero comics that made it to film including Howard the Duck (1986), The Guyver, The Rocketeer (both 1991), and The Crow (1994). Some of the most prevalent titles were the Archie books, and even the EC horror anthology Tales from The Crypt. But very few titles that were not about buff men and women in spandex were ever optioned for television or film. Comics had been fodder for animated and live-action films alike since the birth of Superman in 1938. The film was one of the first non-superhero comic book adaptations. And it presents another fun science-fiction action vehicle for star Jean-Claude Van Damme. It uses the common themes of fate versus free will to delineate the characters, with some choosing to accept the timestream, while others seek to bend it to their own schemes. It stands on the shoulders of the films that came before it utilizing many elements audiences would be familiar with, while also showing the down sides of time travel. Timecop is a more sophisticated take on the common time travel sci-fi film. McComb and Spota get a tour of the TEC from Director Matuzak, though McComb is more interested in shutting it down. He realizes that this was all a setup by Future McComb to eliminate the officer that has become a thorn in his side, even prior to him joining the TEC. The events of the previous October 10th play out a little differently as Max-Prime is now on hand to help dispatch the bad guys. Max sees 1994 Melissa and warns her that people are coming to kill her and younger Max. While Max is investigating, he trails two of McCombs hitmen to the local Mall, which he remembers from his past. The Senator has shuttered the TEC, and Matuzak risks his life to help Max return to 1994 to fix a problem that only Max is aware of. Max returns to 2004 finding the future has changed. Fielding turns on Max, being one of McCombs Agents, but is injured in the firefight and later dies. McComb meets his younger self, careful not to touch him–since that could be disastrous, and forces him to take the buyout money, before killing Parker. Originally on this day, McComb resigned from the company that would eventually be the “next big thing” in computer systems, used by everyone in 2004. McComb has returned to October 9 to meet with his ex-business partner in a computer hardware company, Jack Parker (Kevin McNulty). Max is partnered with Internal Affairs investigator Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben) and sent back to 1994 using the Agency rocket sled. The TEC tracks a level six ripple coming from Washington DC in 1994. Jean-Claude Van Damme introduces himself to a would-be thief by asking him to read his shoe. Max stops Atwood, who would rather kill himself than return and face the wrath of Senator McComb, who has at least “half the agency” on his payroll. Ten years later, Max is working for the TEC on a case involving his ex-partner, Lyle Atwood (Jason Schombing) traveling to Octo(Black Friday) to make some financial investments. On the way out of the house Max is attacked and shot in his bulletproof vest by a number of men just before their house explodes killing Melissa, still inside. That evening, Max lets Melissa know he’s accepting a position with a new Agency but gets called away by an emergency before she can share her news. Officer Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) meets his wife, Melissa (Mia Sara), at a local Mall before returning home. They believe that someone is already using the technology to steal gold from the past. The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is to be led by DC Police Captain Eugene Matuzak (Bruce McGill), and McComb volunteers to chair the committee. Hans Kleindast has discovered time travel and that they are forming a new group to police it. On Octoin Washington DC, a Senate appropriations committee, which includes Senator McComb (Ron Silver), is informed by George Spota (Scott Lawrence) of the Justice Department, that Dr. The film opens in 1863 as a group of Confederate soldiers moving gold bullion are robbed by a man with advanced, automatic machine guns.
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