You're right on both counts Red-Eye, my man. You cannot carbon-date gold, as carbon dating (more accurately called "radiocarbon 14 dating") measures the amount of an isotope of carbon (carbon 14) that is left in a given sample. And carbon is not present in gold, as gold (au on the Periodic Table of Elements) is its own element-- as is carbon.. In order for radiometric carbon 14 dating to work, the sample to be tested must be a)I organic, which just means carbon based chemistry, not. _necessarily_ biological in nature and b) less than 60,000 years old. Science has other dating methods, but "carbon dating" is most famous among lay people. And you are spot on about the gold-- if it could be carbon dated-- would. Be the same age it was when the time-bandits (lol) brought it back to the future (lol again) which would be billions of years old as gold is one of the heavier than helium and hydrogen metals that formed in stars that then released it when they went supernova. That is how all elements besides hydrogen and helium formed. Yes, I am a pedantic uber-nerd! Cheers ;)

The only way to talk about Timecop is to just have fun with it. Good stuff, man!

Wait a minute... They teleport their agents right in front of TRUCKS in traffic, but they can teleport back that dude in the middle of his fall? Also: I've always wondered what happened with the cars they travel in to the past. How THAT works?

It's comic book relation, timing, quality of presentation, Van Damme fans and lack of other more interesting films around release were what made this film a hit. During the 1990's people actually went to movie theaters EVERY Friday and Saturday evening. By 2000 several of the theaters here closed, I assume this happened everywhere.

LOL, I think he actually means "Spared every expense" like "See, we're not wasting any government money" because the place is so sparse and industrial - it looks more like a parking garage than a high-tech futuristic lab. Also...Bruce McGill makes every movie better! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1053">17:33</a> this guy has probably never used a fountain pen before - those things are an ink explosion waiting to happen. Love the anachronistic music in the background. This movie is awesome, thanks for the review!

So I've been binge watching your entire channel. You've always been really good at this. But if you watch all the uploads back to back, you can really see how much sharper you have gotten as time has gone by.

I remember seeing Time Cop along with The Shadow as a double feature, when I was a kid at a drive-in theater. My dad fell asleep because he didnt like either of them but I had such a good time lol

That black black commercial omg Van Damme was killing it

JCVD’s second most glorious hairdo. First being his mullet in Hard Target!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="340">5:40</a> speaking of Butterfly Effect, Peter Hyams also directed “A Sound of Thunder”, which cost 80 million but strangely looks like 2 million

Peter Hyams also made the great Die Hard clone Sudden Death (1995) with Van Damme.

Been years since I saw Timecop. I remember quite enjoying it. Peter Hyams also directed _2010,_ a seriously underrated sci fi classic.

LOL - you did it again! "Bounjour Nerds" made me cough on my drink it was so funny and caught me off guard! I'm going to France soon and will be saying that constantly. The Parisians will know the glory that is RedEye Reviews!!! PLEASE keep doing what you're doing - you're literally like, the only good thing going on right now.....

"He read my mind." "With your English, he doesn't have much choice." LOL, comedic gold!

Timecop is actually a surprisingly satisfying watch. Just enjoy it, and try not to think about it too hard. :)

Ah you cut short the best line “poor bastard (tomorrow might have been a brighter day)”

I imagine at the end of the movie he wouldn't try to fake remembering the last 10 years. He would just admit to his wife that he got back from the past from that day where everything went to shit. Wouldn't you? Kind of like X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Another hilarious review. I just have to say how happy - and impressed - I am that you're approaching 20K subscribers. That's awesome and well deserved. Happy 2022.

"And he brought a bomb, which is an aggressive maneuver" 😂 Keep up the great work with your reviews! You hit a fun tone of reverent nitpicking.

They can't control where they land in the past, except the first one where he walked into his office nice and easy.

Always good to see Bruce McGill in roles - an old favorite since MacGyver.

I saw this film in the theaters as a kid on a Sunday afternoon, after staying at my friend's house on Friday and Saturday night. We hadn't slept for any of that period of time--we'd stayed up beating various Genesis and Super NES games--and by the time Sunday rolled around I was so delirious that it was basically the equivalent of tripping balls. I tried to stay awake to watch the movie, but kept falling asleep in the dark, cool theater; then I'd wake up periodically with only the vaguest idea of where I was, and no idea at all what was going on in the crazy movie I was seeing. Good times.

Timecop is a great movie. Back in the 1980's here in Australia there was a former cricket player and sports show host called Max Walker, this added much more entertainment value to Timecop at cinemas.

Dude I’ve been binge watching your channel for the last couple days and it’s just amazing. Like you’re the best movie reviewer ever.

I remember when this came out (saw it at the theater lol), and they had the kitchen splits in literally every form of trailer or preview for the movie, all over TV. It sold it.

I got to admit that JCVD is my guilty pleasure...a national treasure shining bright through the large shadow of Steven Seagal.

If you had asked me, I would have swore they DID in fact do the splits together at some point. Mandela splits.

You got me - Alexa is now playing Coldplay! LOL!

Mate I just found your channel came up on My feed,but you're one of the top top guys I've seen fir this kinda content I was shocked when I seen your sub count I was honestly expecting well into the 100ks. Seriously keep it up because your content is top class it's obviously the algorithm that's slowing your growth but think you're going to kill it on here eventually LOVE your stuff been binging.

This review is brilliant. Your JCVD split references and comments are hilarious but the "I would have 'loved' to see Jean Claude and future Jean Claude do the splits together..." took me out 🤣😂🤣😂 Thank you for making me laugh so much!

I cannot state how much I love this channel! Bravo sir, bravo!!! 👏😌

So he didnt bring the gold back to the present time with him. I think what the movie tried to do, was have the man go back in time. Steal the gold. Stash it somewhere he knows wont be messed with through his current time. Goes back to his current time himself, and goes to the spot where he stashed the gold in the past. This is why the gold aged. I just dont think the movie implemented the story very well

Dr Strange would even have a hard time trying to figure this out. Lol

You're wrong Redeye, I submit that "Bonjour Nerds" IS a good greeting.

The old Irish guy on the sidewalk when they leap out the window is the best part of this movie

Really enjoying your review videos. Fantastic work.

I love that I typed in "film criticism" and this video popped up

You definitely jus activated my Google assistant when you said "ok Google" haha

This movie manages to look expensive/glossy and cheap AF at the same time. Like Van Damme's hair long and short at the same time.

My aunt got a job as a cannonball. She wasn’t sure she’d be any good at until she got fired. Yes, you got someone.

You don't bring the gold through time back but you hide it in 1863 and when the time comes you dig it out

Legit movie… 10/10 for the splits alone 🤣 You have great content on your channel, I just subscribed

Time travel is difficult to do well. It is a point in favor of Timecop that it doesn't even try.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1102">18:22</a> "You know for something they'd planned...you wouldn't think there'd be as many sparks as there are. " -RedEye(and also every AeroSpace Engineering person EVER)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1136">18:56</a> "we passed 600, which is super cool"... I always love watching videos with comments such as that one. 17400 subscribers now. And deserved.

Grew up loving that movie. Cause I always been so fascinated with time travel, and nothing goes perfectly together like Jean claude and time travel lmao

Another great video Thanks man I remember loving this movie as a teenager when it came out

“Anybody else gettin’ some funny feelings right now?” 🤣

Great review! Wished you had covered a classic line from the final act: "You see, I'm an ambitious, Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world. And you...you're a f**king idiot who never figured out the only way to make anything of himself with that all that fancy kicking was on Broadway." Ron Silver did an excellent job playing the smug, arrogant villain.

I only just found this hidden gem of a channel a week ago, I think It's criminal the way these lazy channels can just list crappy reddit memes and get millions of views while RedEye here is making unique and hilarious film reviews but only getting 10k-20k views.

This has to be my favorite movie review channel. You should review samurai cop. So over the top extra. So extra.

I was very disappointed the crime agency was called the Time Enforcement Commission (T.E.C.), clearly a much better name would have been the Time Weapon And Tactics Service (T.W.A.T.S.)or maybe the Time Intervention Taskforce Service(T.I.T.S.) am I right? :-) These reviews are so funny, you inspired me RedEye, thanks.

Thank you! You did it. My Alexa is playing Coldplay now. You magnificent bastard! 😂😂😂

We can’t afford decent lighting in the future.

Jean Claude must've had a clause in all his contracts allowing at least ONE scantily-clad splits scene per film.

This channel is like if Hats Off Entertainment was a comedian

I think the way it works is that people in the past cannot travel to the future because it has not happened for "them" yet, but since is has happened for those from the future then those people can go back to their present. I did like how "Project Almanac" treated the premise of encountering your past self as it starts as a feedback loop that amplifies progressively until they cancel each other out of existence.

Timecop surprisingly still holds up… lmao

The going forward thing is based on theoretical physics. It says that if time travel were possible, it would involve moving at the speed of light and some other crap, but it would only be backwards. And you couldn't come back cause that's going forward. So good catch on the logical fallacy.

Damn man, was just talking about Van Damme to a buddy of mine and then this showed up in my feed. Looks like Skynet and its algorithms got it right. Guess I'll keep them happy and subscribe 🤪 JK good stuff man, looking forward to going through your back catalog and revisiting the good times.

This movie contains Probably the worst knife fight ever committed to film…

With both Mccombs out of the way, wouldn't that cause the entirety of the TEC to no longer exist? Thereby causing the "future" Walker to simply disappear as he would no longer have the job at TEC...since it no longer needs to exist?

Timecop and splits= PB & J lol. I remember this movie from when I was a kid and thinking that it was the coolest shit ever! Watched it like a month ago and was surprisingly still entertained by it, those 90s action flicks were...... Just so 90s lol. Wait you did do Roadhouse, right🤔?

Tnx for the lovely review. Interesting point of view with time travel. At the end, I was more lost then lost. Can you even say it like that? 😂JESUS CHRIST, youre killing it dude. And the SPLITS😫. I could do it one time, and retire....with a wheelchair 😅. But still a good movie, which I enjoy every now and then. 🙌 🍻

Fun fact, in Canada we don't use pennies anymore. Just round up or down... Crazy. Haha Edit: sorry forgot to subscribe. I am now. Thanks

He looked so confused when he saw his son. 😆

I love ur videos they're soothing !

That 300zx at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a> is beautiful

I watched this movie, I liked this movie, I don't remember a goddamn thing from this movie.

Those goons were gooning so hard (to the max!), they could even be considered roughjacks. (Succession reference).

Canadian goose are the reason time travel is even an idea. So I suggest you let that one marinate!

In Canada, we no longer have pennies. Our economy got so inflation filled that we LITERALLY round down for 1 or 2 cents to zero, and round up for 3 or 4 cents to a nickel. Dead serious fact.

I think it would have been better to have the movie end with future Van Damme knowing he would be wiped out of existence due to his past self now making different choices, but he continues anyway to save the woman he loves. We would get a bittersweet ending where the woman is the only character to know what truly happened that night and Van Damme would be oblivious but have the memories of raising his son, which I think matters more to him anyway. Days of Future's Past did it better with the main character who remembers a life that doesn't exist anymore, and they have mutations and lore excuses for it to be like that.

I remember the African American actor in the beginning of this movie was also in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, and played "Tony", in the Adam Hecht segment. He would have made a good Barack Obama for that matter as well! (L.O.L.!)

Gotta do the movie Cyborg. Has an EPIC split.

The fight at the end with the gun in his hand mashing the hulking guy is badass.

Squire. I love the Segal stuff and rightly So! I have a weak spot for JCVD and, throwing you know science and that to one side, not bad? He does not do the splits from a fat guy chair! Even now I think he is at least on set for fight scenes and back in the day he could clearly put boot to face, "Wolverine"!

It's only a Canadian Goose if it comes from the Canadia Region in France. That's just a goose.

The "can't go to the future" thing means they can't go ahead of the current date. That doesn't negate the idea of going back and forth between the beginning of time and your original date.

Oh man Mia Sara is probably the best thing about this movie. She’s so fine looking. The time travel element of the movie is a bit too wonky to take seriously. But I understand that when this was made back to the future and the terminator movies were still fairly fresh in people’s minds so they had to try and be a bit different to stand out a bit. But for the ending it seems nobody thought it was a bit awkward to have JCVD have to fake his way into a completely different future. When really the heart is with him not having to bury his hot wife in the ground and start a family with her instead. I would have preferred if they let time traveling JCVD go back and focus on earlier JCVD and then fast forward to the future as a continuation of the altered timeline with him and his wife having a kid and then they could also show something like the time traveling shenanigans have been canceled because of what past JCVD did to communicate the dangers of screwing around with the past and show a slightly better world in which he can have his happy family guy ending. Fin.

“The future hasn’t happened yet…” Well it hasn’t happened to YOU yet. If you travel back in time, the future has no longer happened as anything you’ve do might affect a new future that would then have to unfold. Even if nothing changes, the future won’t know that until you get there the hard way…

If your matter (you) are from the future, you can return to that time. If your matter ( you) is in the present, you cannot go to the future. You can only return to the future from the past, not jump to a future that never existed.

I remember this movie growing up I loved it and still love it to this day

Stumbled across this. Marking it ot come back and watch after my podcast on the movie later this week! Fun!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="547">9:07</a> thanks for that, hadn't even crossed my mind until you mentioned it

I watched this in theatre ... but was too young to analyze like this lol

Wait a minute Mr. Red Eye weren't you just at full mast during the scene prior? The kettle and all that... lol j/k love your reviews my man.👍

Very funny and very well done.Subscibed.👍

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="877">14:37</a> I can not believe JCVD would want a stunt double for this. I would bet the producers just didn't wanna shell out for JCVD to film a few pick up shots, and hoped nobody would ever have the internet to disassemble movie flubs so fine and intensely.

Legene has it that JCVD has a clause stating he must have at least 1 splits scene

So about the not-being-able-to-travel-to-the-future thing... When the agents/villains travel back in time they have those return modules that they trigger in order to return to the present --- I think those modules anchor them to that moment in time (the present) so, in essence, they're not 'travelling to the future' but rather 'returning to the present'. Best explanation I can come up with. Don't know if that makes sense? The biggest plot hole for me is the method they use: those rail cars travelling at high speeds toward the wall. At the moment they time-travel the G's are so intense that they have those cartoony faces and are screaming in agony. Also, like you pointed out, they claim they can't target a specific place - hence, why they land in the lake and JCVD almost gets flattened by the truck. And yet... JCVD, at the start of the film, and the villains - whenever they time-travel - all arrive at very specific places (office; factory) and are seen casually walking through the time portal - you know, like they didn't almost just suffer a high-speed aneurysm. Awesome review --- love this film, despite its holes! xD

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="30">0:30</a> People were still wearing jackets (MA-1 flight jacket in that case) with the sleeves pushed up like that this far into the '90s? I was a teenager at the time and I don't recall ever seeing anyone doing that. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="282">4:42</a> Sleeves pushed up (or rolled up) AND he has a mullet?! Somehow, even though he's come from 2004, he's even MORE retro than he was in 1994! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="333">5:33</a> You don't necessarily need fancy futuristic weapons in 1929. The 1934 gun control act hadn't been passed yet, so an everyday Jojo could get their mitts on all the best stuff that was available at the time, including but not limited to a Tommy Gun or a Colt R75. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="788">13:08</a> No 'Enter Sandman' reference?! Denied! <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="993">16:33</a> As Kyle Reese said, "Nobody goes home." <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1082">18:02</a> <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="380">6:20</a> PM in June? Judging by those shadows, looks more like <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="240">4:00</a> PM.

OK Google... you bastard :)

Maybe carbon tested as in the gold in fact hadn’t aged because its carvings were still relatively new compared to its much more dated present counterparts?

Haven't seen this movie in a long time, but I think there was a pretty good ironic joke at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="380">6:20</a> where someone says "Things will be better tomorrow" (or something like that) after the guy dies. This scene took place right before the stock market crash of 1929. The villain should have disintegrated like when a player gets telefragged by another player in Doom. The people who made Doom knew what would happen when two objects occupied the same place. Double Impact features duelling Van Dammes too. It's pretty amusing.

"We spared every expense." 😂😂

Get your government hands out of my time travel!

I just saw the end....replace the planes with splits!..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 YOU'A FOOL MAN!

Every time travellng movie is time line conflict and confusing. So when did max's wife die ? Her wife die because of future-bad guy, so that means max stay with his wife until 2004 and the his wife is disappeared when the bad guy travell back to kill. First to be cleared, does the timeline of past-present-future is really consequece or just in parallel.

JCVD did the splits so hard he tore the fabric of time!