Scene of the Week: Universal Soldier – Hostage “Negotiation”
Could there be any better way to introduce your badass special operations super soldiers than to actually see them in action? Universal Soldier does so many things right that it’s hard to figure out where to start the list, but re-watching this scene reminds me just how amazing of a job that Roland Emmerich did.
If movies have taught me anything it is that hostage situations can be tricky and often times messy. Sending in your state of the art killing machines was a good idea for mission success and for PR reasons. It was also smart to have the assault team full of guys like Dolph Lundgren, JCVD, and Ralf Moeller. None of them were born in the U.S. but they sure have ingratiated themselves to the American viewer with years of action goodness.
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