History Film / UniversalSoldierDayOfReckoning

* AxCrazy: Scott 3.0 takes it up a notch. Aside from looking like a butch version of Priss from ''Film/BladeRunner'' in combat gear in the armory fight, [[spoiler: He starts off the fight by punching John in the face, with his tongue sticking out as He decks him, followed by emptying live ammo into the gun rack and at John during the firefight portion of the armory fight. He also spends most of the fight hooping, grunting and hollering like a deranged gorilla on drugs. What makes it even crazier is the fact that he was more than willing to unload an AT-4 Rocket Launcher within the confines of the armory without any consideration for what might happen.]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Devereaux is the de-facto leader of the Liberated [=UniSol=] Army, despite being the oldest of the surviving original first-generation [=UniSols=]. Why?

** On top of that, over the five years since the end of ''Regeneration'', He's been going around, to all of the bases where the [=UniSols=] are being kept, and liberating them, along with the Sleeper [=UniSols=] as well.

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Both Scott and Deveraux.

* AnAxeToGrind: Magnus, [[spoiler: the Sleeper Agent clone of the NGU]], attacks John with an axe while he's in a motel with Fantasia/Sarah. He ends up [[spoiler:cutting off John's fingers during their scuffle, and John repays him by chopping off his foot]].

* {{Deconstruction}}: ''Day of Reckoning'' deconstructs the typical RoaringRampageOfRevenge action flick (i.e. the reluctant hero avenges the murder of his beloved ones by taking down an evil organization lead by the BigBad). It starts off with an unexplained and absurdly over-the-top [[KickTheDog murder of John’s family]] by Luc Deveraux, which seems pretty cliche. However, [[spoiler: it is revealed that the “murder” is just an implanted memory, and that the “reluctant hero taking revenge” (John) is actually a lab-grown clone who was specifically designed to kill the rogue Luc Deveraux, who is not really evil but rather just disillusioned and has had enough of the abuse he suffered in the past.]]
* DenOfIniquity: The [=UniSol=] Brothel. All of the Unisols there engage in some really freaky, kinky sex. One of the [=UniSols=] gets his hand nailed into a table by a hooker with a hammer.

** He defeated Andrew Scott not once, but twice despite the latter's advantages over him (the second time around, he was not only benefiting from regular UniSol augmentations but also the gene therapy augmentations given to the Next Generation [=UniSols=] of Operation White Tower. Not even Devereaux himself had those when they reactivated him)

* AxCrazy: Scott 3.0 takes it up a notch. Aside from looking like a butch version of Priss from ''Film/BladeRunner'' in combat gear in the armory fight, [[spoiler: He starts off the fight by punching John in the face, with his tongue sticking out as He decks him, followed by emptying live ammo into the gun rack and at John during the firefight portion of the armory fight. He also spends most of the fight hooping, grunting and hollering like a deranged gorilla on drugs. What makes it even more fucking crazy is the fact that he was more than willing to unload an AT-4 Rocket Launcher within the confines of the armory without any consideration for what might happen. Sanity isn't something they decided to add into the clones of Scott]]

* BarbellBeating: The film has a fight between John and Magnus in a gym equipment store, both men beating the snot out of each other with everything they get their hands on, including John grabbing a set of barbell weights and repeatedly using it to pummel Magnus' face, skull and at one point ''[[GroinAttack testicles]]''.

* BloodstainedGlassWindows: The final battle between John and Deveraux takes place in the Unisol church within the Unisol compound.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: [[spoiler: Almost everyone that Magnus kills with his pump-action shotgun gets affected this way, especially the hookers that he kills]]. Even the [=UniSols=], with their bulky sizes, get blown across the room. It does help that he's using rifled slugs in a close-quarters environment.

* BornAsAnAdult: The doctors at the secret Unisol base inform [[spoiler:the protagonist, John,]] that he was in fact one in a line of cloned humans with fake memories and that he was only born a few weeks before.

* EvilIsHammy: Lundgren's second clone keeps up the tradition.

* EyeScream: Although we don't actually see Devereaux shoot John's daughter, he imagines seeing her with a bloody eye socket during one of his hallucinations.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: After a violent fight with John, Deveraux finally sees him as a successor to the group, being aware that the government created him and implanted false memories of Deveraux murdering John's family. Showing some sympathy over John's plight, Deveraux allows John to fatally stab him in the chest, entrusting him to take over the separatist group for the remaining Unisols.
--> '''Deveraux''': (last words) There is no end..... always another, John.
* FakeMemories: Cloned Unisols can be implanted with false memories of their past lives. [[spoiler:It's revealed that John himself never had a family that was murdered by Deveraux. He doesn't let that stop him from killing Deveraux, and he ultimately holds the government agent who gave him the memory responsible for killing his "family".]]
* FanDisservice: All you need to do to make Jean-Claude Van Damme look ugly is to shave his hair. John Hyams did just that.
* FilmNoir: The story is the closest to a neo-noir movie out of any .

* FullFrontalAssault: The brothel massacre-slash-battle shows (among other victims) a ScaryBlackMan that tries to take on the shotgun-wielding [=UniSol=] while fully nude and on display. He doesn't even manages to get close to said shotgun-wielding [=UniSol=] and gets blasted ''three times'' in retaliation.
* {{Gorn}}: The movie is awash in it. Special note goes to [[spoiler: Magnus' attack on the [=UniSol=] Brothel, the hotel fight between Magnus and John, John's discovery of his friend Isaac with a mutilated head and face, John's special surgery, and John's subsequent fight throughout the [=UniSol=] HQ]].

* HollywoodCyborg: Liberated Unisols have the control chip at the back of their necks removed, and its a tell-tale indicator that the Unisol in question is liberated. It's also mentioned that sleeper [=UniSols=] can be triggered at will by an implant in their brains, which dissolves their fake memories and identities and switches them on for operations. John never had his memories dissolved, so he went in to have them removed. It was part of his ploy to infiltrate the [=UniSol=] compound.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: There is a certain amount of ambiguity about precisely how villainous Luc Devereaux has become from previous movies. While he's clearly not exactly well-adjusted in the film, he spends most of events brooding quietly, leaving most of the direct survivalist-management villainy to Scott 3.0. He also has a reasonably just cause, opposing what is very heavily implied to be an unscrupulous secret government which destroys men in order to turn them into unfeeling killing machines. [[spoiler: Tellingly, the only actively villainous thing we ever see him do -- murdering John's family -- is an implanted false memory and never actually happened.]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Devereaux is the de-facto leader of the Liberated Unisol Army, despite being the oldest of the surviving original first-generation Unisols. Why?

** He defeated Andrew Scott not once, but twice despite the latter's advantages over him (the second time around, he was not only benefiting from regular UniSol augmentations but also the gene therapy augmentations given to the Next Generation UniSols of Operation White Tower. Not even Devereaux himself had those when they reactivated him)
** He managed to single-handedly take down a company of battle-hardened terrorists and an Next-Generation Unisol.
** On top of that, over the five years since the end of ''Regeneration'', He's been going around, to all of the bases where the UniSols are being kept, and liberating them, along with the Sleeper Unisols as well.
** Because of his feats, the other Unisols see him as someone they would gladly follow into hell and back.

* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: By this time, the [=UniSols=] have forgone the awesome firepower that they're used to, along with the advanced body armour and combat rags, and have gone completely old school. They look less like a professional army, and more like a guerrilla army, with clothing and equipment taken from different time periods, ranging from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to [[UsefulNotes/GulfWar Operation Desert Storm]]. Their weapons even reflect this as well, with lots of Vietnam War Era M16s and AK-47s. Scott 3.0 runs around wearing clothing components from infantrymen in World War II, along with combat boots from UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Era. Deveraux himself goes the route of [[Film/ApocalypseNow Colonel Kurtz]] by wearing an M65 Field Jacket, along with matching pants and combat boots.

''Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning'' is the sixth movie in the ''Film/UniversalSoldier'' film series. It was released to video-on-demand services in October 2012, followed by a theatrical release one month later. Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/DolphLundgren return to reprise their roles as Luc Deveraux and Andrew Scott while frequent Van Damme collaborator and successor Creator/ScottAdkins stars as new protagonist John, a man who loses his family in a home invasion led by Deveraux. Warned by the FBI not to go after Deveraux himself, John does so anyway and begins to uncover a bigger plot being purported by unseen forces, leading him to a final showdown with the former UniSol.

''Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning'' is the sixth movie in the ''Film/UniversalSoldier'' film series. It was released to video-on-demand services in October 2012, followed by a theatrical release one month later. Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/DolphLundgren return to reprise their roles as Luc Deveraux and Andrew Scott while frequent Van Damme collaborator and successor Creator/ScottAdkins stars as new protagonist John, a man who loses his family in a home invasion led by Deveraux. Warned by the FBI not to go after Deveraux himself, John does so anyway and begins to uncover a bigger plot being purported by unseen forces, leading him to a final showdown with the former Unisol.

''Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning'' is the sixth movie in the ''Film/UniversalSoldier'' film series. It was released to video-on-demand services in October 2012, followed by a theatrical release one month later. Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/DolphLundgren return to reprise their roles as Luc Deveraux and Andrew Scott while frequent Van Damme collaborator and successor Creator/ScottAdkins stars as new protagonist John, a man who loses his family in a home invasion led by Deveraux. Warned by the FBI not to go after Deveraux himself, John does so anyway and begins to uncover a bigger plot being purported by unseen forces, leading him to a final showdown with the former UniSol.

''Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning'' is the sixth movie in the ''Film/UniversalSoldier'' film series. It was released to video-on-demand services in October 2012, followed by a theatrical release one month later. Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/DolphLundgren return to reprise their roles as Luc Deveraux and Andrew Scott while frequent Van Damme collaborator and successor Creator/ScottAdkins stars as new protagonist John, a man who loses his family in a home invasion led by Deveraux. Warned by the FBI not to go after Deveraux himself, John does so anyway and begins to uncover a bigger plot being purported by unseen forces, leading him to a final showdown with the former Unisol.

** He was the first to overcome the effects of the memory clearance drug and ignore the commands of his Black Tower Handlers
** He defeated Andrew Scott not once, but twice despite the latter's advantages over him (the second time around, He was not only benefiting from regular Unisol augmentations but also the gene therapy augmentations given to the Next Generation Unisols of Operation White Tower. Not even Devereaux himself had those when they reactivated him)

** On top of that, over the five years since the end of ''Regeneration'', He's been going around, to all of the bases where the Unisols are being kept, and liberating them, along with the Sleeper Unisols as well.

* DenOfIniquity: The [=UniSol=] Brothel. All of the Unisols there engage in some really freaky, kinky sex. One of the [=UniSols=] gets his hand nailed into a table by a hooker with a hammer.