Jean-Claude and Dolph looks pretty spent in this. It has some decent action, a more elaborate plot than the original (okay, it's hard not to) and John Hyams' take on the franchise strips away the silliness in favour of realism. The movie is way better than it has any right to be. While I wouldn't exactly recommend it, it's worth checking out. Then again, I would expect nothing less from the son of the director of 'Timecop'. Bring on the next one.

A remarkably forgettable script, but you can't deny JCVD and Lundgren make for some good action.

Van Damme and Dolph Lungdren sure do beat the bajeezus out of each other! Everyone in this movie can probably eat their own weight in steak. Van Damme has a short period of lamenting his violent life, but thankfully gets better and punches people's faces off.

Again I encounter a film which, in hindsight, has a sound idea to it - let's delete the second film with Bill Goldberg out of cannon, and transform the goofy Roland Emmerich film into a deathly serious sequel. Sadly the film immediately showed itself to be dour without any sense of meaning - just the visual palette, overbearingly grim without a justification for it, becomes a chore to sit through - and leads to pointless and horrible violence without reason to it.

Every other person in this movie gets killed by being punched in the face a dozen times REALLLLLY hard.

This film really takes the franchise into a new direction, one of realism. Van Dam's character suffers what seems to be the effects of the memory erasing serum from the first film, along with severe PTSD, and I really liked how it showed that. It showed that he was human and was affected by all the shit they did to him, and by the hell that is war. Dolph Lundgren returns, but doesn't have much screen time. I like the gritty realism, it works well for this movie.

This DTV third installment featuring the Van Damme character removes the humor and fun of the original and goes for excessively dark, gritty, serious and bloody. With very strong production values for a DTV film, it's a shame to see Van Damme and Lundgren reduced to glorified cameos. The story isn't awful, but this series is about their characters, and this movie spends more than half its length away from them. Lundgren gets only ten or so minutes. Too bad. 'Regeneration' could've been a kick.

I liked it better than original movie. Really. But the fact is, I won't remember it in a week. On very account it's solid, serious b-action movie. Kind of a safe bet by filmmakers who REALLY didn't want to fuck up the movie. Downside of such conventional film-making is that it leaves nothing on the viewer. Just another not-so-bad straight-to-video b-movie.

Andrei Arlovski was way better then i thought. Big fan of JCVD and Dolph. Good action movie.

Has a moment or two and a nice gritty look to it but this is nothing more than another forgettable DTV action sequel.

Far, far, far better than I expected it to be but it's still not very good to be honest. There are impressive moments here and there but overall it can't escape it's short comings. In 2009 there should never be an elite military soldier firing from the hip except in very specific circumstances. It's just immersion breaking to see supposedly elite soldiers that don't know how to hold guns. Still Van Damme's honestly still got it, shame he doesn't get more decent movies thrown his way.

It's Dolph and Van Damme in Chernobyl, sounds good and mostly is. Decent action and reasonable fight scenes. But they did not play the Dolph card anywhere near as well as they could have. Interesting scenery anyway and unfortunately a dumb ending.

Good. The muscle from Brussels is back to kick more super-soldier ass. The setting is Chernobyl, very grimy and desolate, there are no John Woo/MTV style rapid-edit action sequences. The fight sequences are brutally detailed and very effective. The plot may be flimsy but the action isn't and that's what we care about in a JCVD film. An excellent time waster. Recommended.

Worth a watch

I have no idea why I bothered watching this. But it is not a shit as I expected. JCVD has still got the moves!

The cinematography is surprisingly good with top notch action sequences. The action looks high budget but that's about where the good qualities end. The storyline is ridiculous and the writing is very poor which is not surprising given the subject matter. Van Damme and Lundgren have few scenes together in this and barely speak at all. Overall it's not good but it's entertaining enough if you want some gritty video game like violence. It's better than some much higher budget movies.

Great Non-stop Action. I expected crap, but got a nice B-Movie instead.