YMMV / Universal Soldier (1992)

• Awesome Music: The first Universal Soldier trailer features tracks from... Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Total Recall (1990).
• Complete Monster: Andrew Scott was a sergeant in The Vietnam War, where he goes renegade as he starts butchering civilians and kills his own squad when they try to stop him. He cuts off the ears of his victims and wears them in a necklace. He orders Private Luc Deveraux to kill the two remaining "traitors", two Vietnamese children, doing the job himself when Deveraux refuses. Both are reborn years later as memory-wiped Super Soldiers, and as soon as Scott regains his memories, he kills his controllers and goes on a blood-filled vendetta across the States to punish Deveraux for disobeying his illegal orders back in Vietnam, graphically killing anyone who gets in his way. At the end, he takes Deveraux's elderly parents and his love interest hostage, awarding all of them the death penalty. Despite claims earlier in the film that he thinks he's still fighting the insurgents in Vietnam, Scott later plainly admits that he's fully aware where he is and what he's doing, and his only motive is revenge for Deveraux refusing to partake in his atrocities.
• Evil Is Cool: Andrew Scott, as expected from a Big Bad character played by powerhouse action star Dolph Lundgren.
• Narm: Thanks to Jean-Claude Van Damme's accent, some of Deveraux's lines end up becoming hilarious. His lack of emotion does. Not. Help.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: The tie-in game is pretty much a Dolled-Up Installment of Turrican 2 with the protagonist change to Luc Deveraux, and a few levels replaced with new ones designed to tie into the movie, often considered weaker than the originals.

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