This is where the timeline gets really weird because "Universal Soldier: The Return," which was an official sequel to the 1992 film was released the same year as the "Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business," a semi-legitimate TV movie/direct-to-video programmer. How something like this is even legally possible boggles the mind. Still, this sequel, which is competently produced but fairly lifeless, sees Jean-Claude Van Damme return to the role of Luc Deveraux (sorry, Matt Battaglia), who has stripped himself of his bionic enhancements and is now just Some Dude who is helping to develop the next generation of Universal Soldiers.
Didn’t he learn anything from his hellish experience the first time around? (Oddly enough, this film also sees the program facing budget cuts, only in this one a sentient program decides to unleash hell, which is way cooler.) Nonsensical and dull, with a very awful supporting cast, much of the events of this film are either ignored or blatantly contradicted in subsequent sequels which is probably for the best.
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